Tongue weight limits and wdh
What happens with the tongue weight limit when you are using a weight distributing hitch? My Tacoma says the the tongue weight limit is 650 lbs. Does that mean that if my trailer has a tongue weigh...
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Huntindog wrote:
Try to imagine a tiny scale that would fit between the top of the ball and the coupler. What it would measure is the actual TW.... And that scale would read the same no matter what is done with WD.
You can put yourself in the "I don't understand" category, as well as the
"I don't read so well" category, since you quoted Ron Gratz, whoever that is, and his thread on here.
I looked at it for about 45seconds and he understands and halfway down the first page, he says this...
"No, the load on the BALL actually INCREASES by the assumed 1700#. The load on the receiver DECREASES by 300# as explained above."
Take a number, back of the line, try again when it's your turn...
Edit, in your tiny scale example, it would not be a measurement of tongue weight, it would be a measurement of the force that the coupler is applying to the hitch ball. A component of which is the remaining effective tongue weight after distribution and another component of which is the force applied to the connection (irrespective of tongue weight, actually).
