sway control requirements
I am trading for a 25 ft mini lite. My tv is a F250 crew cab with a 6.2l gas motor The tongue weight is about 600lb . Will I require a WD hitch and will I require sway control.
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Ivylog wrote:
A PU will ride/handle better with some weight in the bed. 600 lbs, even on the tailgate will improve the handling. Hook the trailer up and go for a test drive without WD or sway.
The tangent of 2/250 is less than 1 degree so no one is going to flash their high beams at you if you do not use WD...
in the trees :S
I went through this with our first rig, a '94 F150 towing a '95 Aljo 18.5 Deluxe at 21' with 450~lb tongue weight. Dealer said ya got ta have this here Megahitch with these bars and a friction bar. Without it you'll be all over the road. I didn't like the feel of it. After tinkering and adjusting and even buying a lighter, much shorter WD hitch, I ended up towing with a short standard ball mount with no WD or sway control for six years with no problems. Then went to a 32' 5th wheel as common knowledge dictates a 32' travel trailer is a bear to tow without a Mega$hitch. Now we tow our 32' properly loaded and axle placed TT with no more than just enough WD to satisfy the rated capacity of the hitch receiver. If not for the receiver's capacity being under the tongue weight, I'd use a standard ball mount like the truck that delivered it used.
Notice trucks that deliver 60' mobile homes use no WD or sway control.
