Air bags and cat scale shock
Hi all, it's been awhile since I have posted. We recently took our first spring trip this year to do some fishing. This was the first time I had hooked up the bass boat with my TC, and I noticed tha...
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JoeChiOhki wrote:
A big part of the reason you're so close on your rear axle is because its a short bed truck with a long extension.
All of the weight is entirely on the rear and likely even unloading some from the front axle, when part of it should be getting carried by the front axle.
But moving the weight up front is not that easy.
When moving spare wheel on front bumper makes pretty efficient weight change - it is not cosmetic.
What I think can be done here is going with shorter hitch and longer boat tongue.
That will give the same clearance on those 90 degree turns, while could reduce the rear axle weight. 250lb tongue in this set adds about 500lb to rear axle.
WD bars should be big help as well, but you don't see those on boat trailers.
Most of boat trailers I have seen -drive close to axles capacity, so that might be the reason.
