Too much WD bar?
It's been a while since I've had anything but a 5er so help me refresh my memory. Obviously having not enough spring to your WD bars is bad but can having too much be bad as well? If I'm shooting for...
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Quote "...I *think* Reese did not include the cargo weight in the past and this is a more recent change.
"As an example, say your truck has 400 lbs of passengers, groceries and camping gear and you had 800 lbs of TW fully loaded, the spring bar should be rated at 1200 lbs. If your cargo was 600 lbs, you'd need their 1500 or 1700 bars depending on if you had round or trunnion style bars. Or another way of looking at it is if you had 1200 lb bars and 800 lbs TW, you'd limit your cargo weight to 400 lbs. I suspect that Reese owners would tend to undersize their bars without referencing the chart."
This is a surprise to me and goes against the conventional wisdom I've read before. What happens if, like me, someone loads 90 gallons of diesel in an auxiliary tank in the bed plus other junk to just about max-out the GVW rating when the trailer hitch weight is included. Is Reese now saying the poor weight transfer bars and the trailer frame are supposed to support all that?
Hard to believe.
"As an example, say your truck has 400 lbs of passengers, groceries and camping gear and you had 800 lbs of TW fully loaded, the spring bar should be rated at 1200 lbs. If your cargo was 600 lbs, you'd need their 1500 or 1700 bars depending on if you had round or trunnion style bars. Or another way of looking at it is if you had 1200 lb bars and 800 lbs TW, you'd limit your cargo weight to 400 lbs. I suspect that Reese owners would tend to undersize their bars without referencing the chart."
This is a surprise to me and goes against the conventional wisdom I've read before. What happens if, like me, someone loads 90 gallons of diesel in an auxiliary tank in the bed plus other junk to just about max-out the GVW rating when the trailer hitch weight is included. Is Reese now saying the poor weight transfer bars and the trailer frame are supposed to support all that?
Hard to believe.
