WDH - how much does it reduce tongue weight?
We've been told that a good load distribution hitch will redistribute as much as 30% of the tongue weight. The vehicle we want can tow 7500# but is limited to a tongue weight of 600#. If what we...
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MargaretB wrote:
We've been told that a good load distribution hitch will redistribute as much as 30% of the tongue weight.
The vehicle we want can tow 7500# but is limited to a tongue weight of 600#. If what we were told is true, that would reduce our tongue weight to 546#.
Has anyone heard this before? Is it true? Big decisions hang in the balance!
As always, thanks in advance for your expertise.
NO tongue wt. remains the same and goes against such things as the receiver rating as specified usually in either a WC or WDH configuration, vehicle tongue wt. capacity due to it's structure which could be less than what the receiver itself might be rated for, WDH bar rating, etc. That redistribution you mention helps reduce the overall payload on the vehicle just like not carrying that extra passenger or gear in the TV.
Sorry, you still need the proper vehicle to safely tow whatever you are planning to and that #7500 number you keep fixating on is a "pie in the sky" number as has been exhaustively explained to you numerous times in your many, many previous threads.
Larry
