Which makes more impact on sway
Here's my dilemma...which makes more impact on potential to sway? Too much tongue weight or too little tongue weight?
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If you could provide the tow vehicle, the trailer size and make, and find the scale weight slips it would really help.
What would really help would be just the tongue weight of the trailer not connected to the truck. You have provided narrative, if you can provide numbers we might be able to give you some ideas. Narrative saying the numbers looked OK does not really help. What does the truck weigh alone and what is the trailer's loaded weight?
Hooked and loaded, drove onto scale. stopped when only truck axles where on the scale. Got weight.
This is the weight of the tow vehicle and the tongue. What is the number?
I pulled forward with both truck and trailer on scale. Got weight.
This is the weight of both the truck and trailer but has no differentiation of weight distribution.
I pulled forward until only trailer was on the scale. Got weight.
This is the weight of the trailer without the tongue weight and possibly some weight distributed back to the trailer axles from the WD hitch. But, it tells nothing about percent loading on tongue or how the trailer weight is distributed.
What would really help would be just the tongue weight of the trailer not connected to the truck. You have provided narrative, if you can provide numbers we might be able to give you some ideas. Narrative saying the numbers looked OK does not really help. What does the truck weigh alone and what is the trailer's loaded weight?
