Would you tow this trailer home?

hddecker wrote:

There is something drastically wrong with an owners manual that tells you to tow without a WDH.

Just think about it, you are adding 400#s + to the rear of the vehicle, what effect do you think that is going to have on your streering geometry.

Just go for a drive down any highway and look at the guys that are running nose high, they are the ones that don't have a WDH or don't have it adjusted properly.

Towing a camper is not a game of chance, you load it up, you scale it, you adjust the cargo, and you scale it again and again until you get it balanced.

Like I said on another thread, if your going to tow without consideration for a proper set up, let me know were and when you will be towing, so I came be sure to stay off the road that day.

My manual says that a drop of about 1.5" in the rear of the vehicle means you have a full tongue load and anything more than that and you're tongue is too heavy. (of course it recommends actually weighing it, but it gives some measurements to guesstimate as well). We travel with 350# on the tongue right now which is a drop of about 1 5/32". Our nose isn't up in the air. Is dropping the rear another 11/32" going to put my nose up in the air? Maybe I'm clueless, but I don't think so. It would seem to me that the folks who have their nose up in the air, have too much weight on their tongue, no?

I've been reading vehicle manuals tonight and the ones I've seen that allow WDH have a different weight for with and without. So you can carry more tongue and trailer weight with the WDH than without. It would seem that my vehicle is cool with you carrying 500# on the tongue and no more. A non-realistic numbers example, but if I tow a 10,000 lb trailer and have a 500# tongue load or a 1,000 lb trailer with a 500 lb tongue load, my vehicle still only has 500# on the tongue and the same amount of "nose in the air", no?

If I'm missing something, please let me know what as I like to understand these things. Not to push the envelope, but because my brain needs the technicalities. :D

Edit: and I've now read the thread posted earlier on WDH and I now get how the weight on the rear axle can make the rear lower, just as my manual states the rear of my vehicle will drop up to 1.5". Now, that being said, does EVERY vehicle have too much weight on the rear axle when towing? or are they designed differently maybe such that a vehicle can be designed to not have too much sag with a full tongue load? (ya know, like in the case of a vehicle where they designed it to be used without a WDH ;))