Butch50 wrote:
ah64id,
Per your picture and your profile you are pulling a TT and not carrying a slide in TC. These are 2 different animals. With your trailer there is now way you are putting as much of a load on your truck as the guys with TCs. A TT is only going to put from 10 to 12% on the weight on the tongue. So if your TT is 7000# loaded that is 700 to 840# of tongue weight. What are the size of your bars on your rig. 1000# or 1200# bars? Your tongue weight is in most cases less than 1/3 of the weight that a camper is putting on a truck. Also your weight is being applied at the hitch level where a camper weight is weight is being applied way above the axle and as such there is going to be a tendency to have more sway and more bounce with a TC. With air bags and no contact with the overloads there is going to be more bounce and sway. Drive behind a TC and see how they sway back and forth with just road changes. A truck pulling a TT is not going to have the same issues.
So when you use your experience it is comparing apples to oranges. They are not the same. Bill's truck would handle your TT without any problems also but he is talking TC.
Wow, if your dad has 8,000# on the rear axle of his 3/4 that is more than I have on my 2013 Ram DRW with my camper on. I have 900# less on my rears than that with my NL 10 2 CDSE when it is loaded and ready to go camping. My rear scale weight on the rear is 7140# and that is with an almost 4000# camper back there. So your dad's truck well be lighter in the rear than my truck and yet is 900# heavier than I am so his camper has to weigh over 5000#. What camper brand and size does he have on his truck??
Bedlam is dead on with his explanation of a setup with a TC.
Butch I didn't see your post until this morning.
Yes I currently use a TT, but that doesn't tell you anything about experience or knowledge of the subject, just what you assume.
Loads have predictable effects on suspensions, and modifications have predictable effects. It's really that simple.
A TC is harder, as you know, on a suspension based on the high center of gravity. Trying to fight sway with spring rate on a high center of gravity takes a lot of spring rate, there are easier ways to reduce sway and not effect the spring rate.
