Expedition Towing
By the numbers I'm showing I should be able to pull my new Keystone Bullet 287qbswe with my 2005 Ford Expedition. I have the heavy duty tow package and have 95,000 miles on the vehicle. My concern c...
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krobbe wrote:
The goal for stable TT towing is a tongue weight of 12 to 15% of fully loaded weight. Just looking at your DRY hitch weight(740#) and shipping weight(5774#)((740/5774)*100), the hitch weight is at 12.8%. Now fill the propane tanks, front pass thru storage, under bed storage, and (some)water in the tank. The tongue weight will get proportionally heavier. Lets say you add 1500# of stuff into the trailer. You'll end up about 7200# with a tongue weight of 940# to 1100#. That 1100# + hitch(100#) + passenger/cargo(?#) goes against the payload of your truck. You very likely be over on the Exp payload.
My 3/4 ton Suburban can handle these weights just fine, but I've upgraded the hitch receiver with a class 5 and my payload is quite a bit higher than the Exp.
Very similar to your TT, the tongue weight started life out at 800# of a dry weight 5700# and ends up at 1100 to 1200# of 7200# loaded ready to pull out. That's with 10 gal water in the tank and a 2nd battery.
No judgement here. Just my real world numbers.
Again, this just doesn't jive with any official publication I can find. Everything I can find says the hitch weight is listed as the hitch weight when loaded to the maximum GVW, NOT the dry hitch weight.
