WW diet
Wanted to see if my 1700-2200lb tongue weight and 15,000+gvw could be trimmed to a more reasonable level. Too my surprise, was somewhat successful... Although its no ultra light by any means,gettin...
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jmtandem wrote:and 15,000+gvw
Wow, that is impressively heavy for a tow behind trailer.
Well I'm not as impressed by the tongue weight. :)
Think I've developed new insight into WW. They're smarter than I thought and gave them credit for. They made the tongue weight heavy for a reason. They knew guys were going to load a v8 sand car in the back. After years of making TH, they know exactly where to locate the axles and how much tongue to have. 10+ years ago not many srw trucks could actually tow them within their limits though...?
After my WW diet and new found light weight tongue, I've found my FSW 3200 tows a little different from before diet. Before it would never ever sway, no matter what, with its 1700+lb tongue, probably over 2000+lb most of the time when in full loaded camping form before diet.
Now, when passing/being passed by 18wheelers going up/down grades over 68mph, it does sway. The faster I go the faster/more it sways when passing a big semi. It never did that before, ever. Could have gone 80mph before on a pass and pull straight and true, no sway at all.
At 55-60mph it pulls just like before, no sway when passing. tows great. Higher speeds makes 'passing sway' raise its ugly head. If going 75 passing a big double semi truck even going up a grade, its white knuckle for sure. Don't like this new trait from my WW diet.
Hopefully once 160gal of water is loaded in tanks, the high speed passing sway will stop. If not, might have move the SxS a little farther forward like before and live with a heavy tongue that never really bothered me before. Just wanted to be considerably under my max hitch rating.Hopefully can find a happy median.
