Weighing rv
This is a silly question I am sure, but here it goes. I know you can weigh your rig at a truck stop on their scales. I was wondering if you can use those random truck scales on the side of the high...
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drsteve wrote:rbpru wrote:
The debated comes down to the tongue weight your hitch carries.
Without the WD the full weight of the hitch is on the ball and the rear springs compress.
With the WD hitch some of the weight is transferred from the ball reducing the rear spring compression and reducing the axel weight and increasing the front axel and trailer axle weights.
Either a person believes it or does not. It may make for an interesting discussion but it has little impact on the overall RV community.
A WD hitch does not remove load from the hitch ball. It transfers load from the rear axle to the front axle, but that load is NOT the tongue load. Tongue weight is still right there, on the hitch ball. Ad I said above tongue weight could be zero, and the WD hitch would still move load to the front axle and the TT axles.
Read the sticky. It explains it all.
I doubt we can reach him, as he doesn't want to know the truth.... But at least we are letting others know that he is wrong, and where they can find the info that explains why.
That sticky has some very sharp engineers discussing WD.
