First TT advice
Long winded first post, but here we go: I’m looking for a travel trailer to tow with my Durango SRT. I know ideally you pick the trailer first, then the tow vehicle, but I unfortunately put the car...
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Takamine wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but... doesn't having a WDH remove some of the weight from the hitch and distribute it to the axles of the truck and trailer? Thus reducing the amount of weight that the tongue is actually putting on the hitch. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
Not in the sense that you are thinking.. All a WD hitch does is distribute that weight to the front axle, the rear axle and trailer axles. But the tongue weight itself is still the same.
Think of a wheelbarrow and you put a #80 bag of cement in it. That weight is on the front tire and the rear skids. You still have an #80 bag of cement.
Now you lift up on the handles.. Think of that as the WD bars on your arms. Your legs/feet are now the trailers axle.
Nothing has changed with that #80 bag of cement. You have just distributed it's weight between the wheel (front axle) the skids (rear axle) and your legs/feet (trailer axle).
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