Tongue Weight Rating
Hello, We are buying a trailer for our daughter and son-in-law. They now have a Ford Expedition with 8,900# tow rating. 80% of that is 7,120#, but they should stay below 7,000# loaded (5,500 to 6...
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Seattle Lion wrote:
If you assume that you load your trailer evenly, with all the weight equally distributed front-to-back, then the tongue weight percentage should be the same as for the dry trailer.
This is something I'm beginning to wonder about.
What got me to thinking about this is my neighbor at our seasonal sight pulls TTs out of the factories in northern Indiana and he doesn't even own a WD/anti-sway hitch. He just slides the draw bar in, hooks to the ball, and off he goes. Last year he towed over 100k miles. I'm sure some TTs tow better than others, but straight from the factory they must be balanced fairly well.
