Good weight distribution set up

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Camper76 wrote:
I'll be towing a Jayflight slx 294 qbsw. Dry hitch weight is 780, trailer dry is 6480, Gvw is 8250. I want something a little bigger just so I won't need to buy another one if we ever get bigger trailer.

Since you obviously have something now that you're using

1. What is it

2. Get to a set of scales and get some REAL NUMBERS and not those useless "DRY" ones you are now using.

3. Depending the min would be around 1200 with a probable end one in the 1500 range, but those are TOTAL GUESSES at this point. But what you now have is a fairly heavy trailer already so not sure how much heavier especially hitch wise you could get.

Larry

I have Reese with tounge weight of 1000lbs and 10000 gross. It has sway arm so I can't back up with it. Also I'm towing with ram 1500 hemi not sure if that helps

You also need to make sure you educate yourself since if that "sway arm" is the friction bar type you can in fact back up with it. You just have to be careful about making "EXTREME" turns and accelerating slowly when backing and I always loosened it if I was expecting to make many maneuvers backing into a site.

I have the 1200/12K Equal-i-zer for my 1K TW 32' 7500lb GVW trailer and am totally satisified with it, but that's behind a 9500lb 1T full sized Ford Van.

Larry

(Hi Larry, Larry here) Camper76, Amen to the Equal-I-zer. Get rid of the old chain drive weight distributing bars with sway bar, they darn near killed us. Problem with an anti-sway bar is that the trailer has already started to sway and so the little bar has too much work to do to catch up. Equal-I-zers (and other more expensive quality devices) don't let it start to sway, and you can back up without getting out to loosen anything. Although, if I'm on a hill, or the truck won't be level with the trailer, I take the bars off before backing. You sure a 1/2 ton truck can safely tow all that weight?