Tongue Weight (getting sucked in by trucks)

Roman Duck wrote:

1964DeCamp wrote:
Hi, I have an old 1964 DeCamp travel trailer. The sticker says it is 2000 lbs...which I fail to believe. Last summer I towed it with a Mercury Mariner, which has a towing capacity of 3500 lbs... however, even with weight distribution, it still feels odd, I get sucked in and a bit squirrely when passing trucks, and going over 60 mph....is there anything I can do to help with the towing? Is this something that could be adjusted within the tongue weight? is there somewhere to have it weighed, or anything I can buy to help getting it to tow better? any help would be appreciated! thanks in advance

Try installing a sway bar, if you already have one, then add a second one to the other side. make sure you have the correct tire pressure on the tv. get tire weights at a scale then go to your tire manufactures web site for load capacities and proper inflations numbers and see what is the correct pressure for your tires according to the weights that you recorded at the scale

NEVER IMOP use sway control to hide a sway problem. Correct the sway problem, then add sway control.

Sounds like the OPs problem is either too little tongue weight, OR lost steering control cause by loss of weight on the steering axle. A WDH could fix it.