Coming to the darkside
Well here we come... just traded in our 2013 Kodiak hybrid on a 2015 Jayco Eagle 314BHDS. from towing 23 feet to 37 feet... lord help me what the heck was i thinking?
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I pulled a 7,000 lb loaded TT, 32 ft long all over East Tennessee with a 1997 F150 with a 235 HP 5.4. I was under all my axle ratings loaded.
We can sit here and speculate and calculate and possibly even get pretty close sitting behind these screens...but the facts will not be known until you take it to a scale and get three readings.
1- truck loaded for travel...that means family in the truck...doodads for the kids and you and your wife's travel stuff...plan on taking bikes? Put them in the bed...don't forget to put the hitch head in the truck bed or receiver...put the front axle on the front scale pad and the back axle on the second scale pad
2- if possible....weigh your Loaded trailer separately..put the axles on the second scale pad and the tongue on the first pad...level the trailer like its traveling...
This will tell you the actual tongue weight and the actual axle weights and a GVW ready to travel for your trailer.
3- re weigh your truck and trailer with the WD hitch installed. Trucks front axle on the first scale pad...trucks drive axle on the second scale...trailers axles on the third scale pad.
This will give you tons of info...mostly how much your GCVR is and how you are actually distributing weight with your WD hitch.
Actual data is much better than speculation...and how comfy you are with your weights and towing performance is entirely up to you.
Hope this helps some.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
We can sit here and speculate and calculate and possibly even get pretty close sitting behind these screens...but the facts will not be known until you take it to a scale and get three readings.
1- truck loaded for travel...that means family in the truck...doodads for the kids and you and your wife's travel stuff...plan on taking bikes? Put them in the bed...don't forget to put the hitch head in the truck bed or receiver...put the front axle on the front scale pad and the back axle on the second scale pad
2- if possible....weigh your Loaded trailer separately..put the axles on the second scale pad and the tongue on the first pad...level the trailer like its traveling...
This will tell you the actual tongue weight and the actual axle weights and a GVW ready to travel for your trailer.
3- re weigh your truck and trailer with the WD hitch installed. Trucks front axle on the first scale pad...trucks drive axle on the second scale...trailers axles on the third scale pad.
This will give you tons of info...mostly how much your GCVR is and how you are actually distributing weight with your WD hitch.
Actual data is much better than speculation...and how comfy you are with your weights and towing performance is entirely up to you.
Hope this helps some.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
