What's wrong with too much tongue weight?
I understand that too little tongue weight will lead to sway and that the target is between 10-15%, but are there any consequences to having more than that? I don't have concerns with my payload or W...
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Just a note I forgot to include, my travel trailer in the above picture is around 580-600 tongue. The horse trailer is about 140 pounds more than that. With the horse trailer I have to crank the blue ox WD hitch tighter.
Both handle very well. Lots of miles with both.
As an aside comment, my experience the Frontier is a very much under-rated little truck. The 4.0L V6 makes good torque from 2800 to it's peak at 3900 and will pull a six percent grade, on cruise control at 60 mph, 3200 rpm. I tow in fourth gear ( six speed manual ). 150K miles, approx 50K miles towing. Original clutch.
No doubt the pay-low/poe-poe are about to go ballistic on me here, but that's ok. I know what works out here in the real world.
Back to the original point of the thread, I like to set up to around 12 to 15% tongue. If I had a trailer that was significantly higher than that, I'd move some weight to a position over the axles. Not behind the axles, but over the axles. Set up that way with a correctly adjust WD hitch, my experiences have been good.
I feel "too much" TW can cause the rear suspension of the truck to "bounce" too much as it is forced to stroke thru it's travel by the excessive weight.
Both handle very well. Lots of miles with both.
As an aside comment, my experience the Frontier is a very much under-rated little truck. The 4.0L V6 makes good torque from 2800 to it's peak at 3900 and will pull a six percent grade, on cruise control at 60 mph, 3200 rpm. I tow in fourth gear ( six speed manual ). 150K miles, approx 50K miles towing. Original clutch.
No doubt the pay-low/poe-poe are about to go ballistic on me here, but that's ok. I know what works out here in the real world.
Back to the original point of the thread, I like to set up to around 12 to 15% tongue. If I had a trailer that was significantly higher than that, I'd move some weight to a position over the axles. Not behind the axles, but over the axles. Set up that way with a correctly adjust WD hitch, my experiences have been good.
I feel "too much" TW can cause the rear suspension of the truck to "bounce" too much as it is forced to stroke thru it's travel by the excessive weight.
