Towing > 40ft - drw vs srw?
I have a triple axle toy hauler with a top weight of 18k pounds. Four years ago I research the heck out of the type of tow vehicle to get and decided on a drw. I ended up with a 2009 F-450, but unfo...
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fj12ryder wrote:transamz9 wrote:A wider track means more stability to me. Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
If you ride around with the suspension bottomed out it will but in the real would if the suspension are identical they will have the same stability.
From a basic physics point of view, until the point of lifting the inside tire, wider stance means less force is needed at the tires to counteract the tipping force (force x distance).
In reality, the tires are a part of the suspension and aren't solid. A wider stance means a same strength tire sidewall resists tipping more than if it were on a narrower vehicle.
If you put solid steel tires on a narrower vehicle it would feel more stable (less wiggly) than a wider one on rubber tires if both have the same suspension however, when pushed too far the narrower one will roll first.
In theory an equally sprung SRW with stiffer sidewall tires could perform better than a DRW with softer sidewalls but that would take awfully stiff SRW tires and really squishy DRW tires.
