Jeep GC and TT Towing Assistance

3HappyHicks wrote:
drsteve so I weighed the tongue weight of the trailer today and it weighed 400-partially loaded. I'm pretty strong- all 110lbs of me, but I don't think my hitch is quite 100lbs- I can lift it myself and get it into my hitch receiver of my Jeep alone. But anyhow I get where you're going.

Also, I drove it on the highway today at about 75mph and didn't have any drag whatsoever. I also went up and down a few hills-albeight not the mountain passes I'll be traveling soon, the Jeep did really well, and didn't dog and shifted nicely. I had a friend with me who has been towing TT for only 2 years- but he said it felt good, and no real tug, and that it seemed to brake and stop nicely.

So I did have a question about tongue weight vs overall weight. When I weighed the tongue- it weighed in at approx 400lbs, can I add weight/cargo to the back of the trailer? Or is my ONLY allowable additional weight the 500ish lbs for passengers and cargo IN the truck?

You should be fine as long as you don't go crazy adding weight inside the jeep for the haul. Remember that 400lbs of dead tongue weight plus whatever the weight distribution hitch weighs (btw which wdh did you choose to use?) most are 80 lbs avg. so you are up to 480lbs but with the weight being distributed per the rules of physics on avg 15% of that tongue weight also goes back onto the trailers axle. Meaning that 480 total tongue will put 408lbs onto the Jeeps axles and 72lbs back to the trailer.