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sgrizzle
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Feb 27, 2014

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?
  • As long as the tow vehicle weight capacity is not exceeded (such as bottoming out the springs) I doubt sway would be caused by high tongue weight.

    Although a 5th wheel is not the same the physics of the way the trailer will behave is the same. The big rigs have pin weights that often exceed 40%.
  • Too little. You want a minimum of 10 percent and 12.5 is better.