WD Jacks on ProPride

4" from bottom edge of the sleeve to the base

Ron Gratz wrote:

hddecker wrote:
Mine is a Hensley, I set mine up based on the loaded trailer and fully loaded truck. First I scaled the truck and calculated the weight distribution front axle to rear. For simplicity sake 55 front axle and 45% rear axle. Then hooked up the TT and adjusted until I got back into that ball park.

With a properly adjusted WDH, the F/R weight distribution should not be approximately the same for hitched versus unhitched.
The WDH should not be adjusted to restore more load to the front axle than was removed when the TT was hitched with no WD applied.

The front axle should not have more load when hitched than when unhitched.
All of the load added to the TV by the TT, and perhaps some amount of load removed from the front axle, should be carried on the TV's rear axle.

Based on a large number of scaled load reports, the F/R distributions averaged 54/46 unhitched and 47/53 when hitched with WD applied.

The WDH should be adjusted per TV and WDH manufacturer specifications.
Generally, this means restoring between 50 and 100% of the load which was removed from the front axle.

Ron

I didn't do a good job of expressing my method, hence "ball park" and test drive the set up to feel comfortable.

Like I said you can go too far and the TV drives like a lumber truck.

6 1/2 inches does the trick for me.

hddecker wrote:
Mine is a Hensley, I set mine up based on the loaded trailer and fully loaded truck. First I scaled the truck and calculated the weight distribution front axle to rear. For simplicity sake 55 front axle and 45% rear axle. Then hooked up the TT and adjusted until I got back into that ball park.

With a properly adjusted WDH, the F/R weight distribution should not be approximately the same for hitched versus unhitched.
The WDH should not be adjusted to restore more load to the front axle than was removed when the TT was hitched with no WD applied.

The front axle should not have more load when hitched than when unhitched.
All of the load added to the TV by the TT, and perhaps some amount of load removed from the front axle, should be carried on the TV's rear axle.

Based on a large number of scaled load reports, the F/R distributions averaged 54/46 unhitched and 47/53 when hitched with WD applied.

The WDH should be adjusted per TV and WDH manufacturer specifications.
Generally, this means restoring between 50 and 100% of the load which was removed from the front axle.

Ron

6.5 inches

hddecker wrote:

PacNWChris wrote:
Here's one for the ProPride people:

How high up do you typically jack up the weight distribution bars?

I realize that each of your set-ups is different from mine, and it might depend on how much cargo you've got loaded, but I'm just looking to get an idea of a range that people go for.

Our truck has an app in the on-board computer that lets us look at the "pitch" and "roll" ... so I usually set it so the truck is pitch is 0°. I also used a paint pen to make small, measured graduations on the inner shaft of the jacks so I know how high up I've raised them.

Thanks!

Mine is a Hensley, I set mine up based on the loaded trailer and fully loaded truck. First I scaled the truck and calculated the weight distribution front axle to rear. For simplicity sake 55 front axle and 45% rear axle. Then hooked up the TT and adjusted until I got back into that ball park.

Do a test run and see yow it feels for ride, steering and braking, fine tuned it and got to where it felt good. Now it's load and go, until something changes the weight distribution in the rig.

I found you can go too far with weight distribution, get too much weight on the front axle and you feel every expansion joint and lump in the road and if you don't have 4 wheel ABS, you can lockuo the rear wheels.

Okay, thanks. I guess the reason I ask is because I've seen pictures online that show the WD bars jacked up to the point they are actually "bending" a bit. Here are a couple of examples:

http://popupbackpacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ProPride-1a.jpg

http://my.webpix.ca/d/65-1/IMG_4607e.JPG

I realize this isn't bad ... but mine don't seem that extreme. There is NO PLAY in the bars when I try to move them with my foot after I've cranked them up. Towing doesn't feel particularly bumpy ... we've been towing for years (two boats, two TT), so I get that you *feel* more of the road when towing.

Thoughts? Thanks again! :)

PacNWChris wrote:
Here's one for the ProPride people:

How high up do you typically jack up the weight distribution bars?

I realize that each of your set-ups is different from mine, and it might depend on how much cargo you've got loaded, but I'm just looking to get an idea of a range that people go for.

Our truck has an app in the on-board computer that lets us look at the "pitch" and "roll" ... so I usually set it so the truck is pitch is 0°. I also used a paint pen to make small, measured graduations on the inner shaft of the jacks so I know how high up I've raised them.

Thanks!

Mine is a Hensley, I set mine up based on the loaded trailer and fully loaded truck. First I scaled the truck and calculated the weight distribution front axle to rear. For simplicity sake 55 front axle and 45% rear axle. Then hooked up the TT and adjusted until I got back into that ball park.

Do a test run and see yow it feels for ride, steering and braking, fine tuned it and got to where it felt good. Now it's load and go, until something changes the weight distribution in the rig.

I found you can go too far with weight distribution, get too much weight on the front axle and you feel every expansion joint and lump in the road and if you don't have 4 wheel ABS, you can lockuo the rear wheels.