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Gene K 2 wrote:
1. Astro Van with a 19' (Box Length) Travel Trailer. 65 mph and regained control after dropping to 45-50 mph.
2. S-Blazer 4-Door with 19' (Box Length) Travel Trailer. 65 mph and regained control after dropping to 45-50 mph.
3. Explorer with 24' (Box Length) Travel Trailer. 70 mph and ended up upside down in the median.
Lengths are approximate and I don't know anything about how they had them loaded. The Explorer certainly looked marginal for that size trailer.
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Gene K 2 wrote:mkirsch wrote:Gene K 2 wrote:
Thanks Guys...
I guess I'm gunshy because of all the sway issues I've read about with 1/2 tons and longer heavier travel trailers.
What about all the sway issues you've read about with 1/2 tons and shorter trailers? Shouldn't that scare you away from towing altogether?
I've seen it once or twice. I've not experienced it and would like to keep it that way.
โMar-19-2021 03:59 PM
mkirsch wrote:Gene K 2 wrote:
Thanks Guys...
I guess I'm gunshy because of all the sway issues I've read about with 1/2 tons and longer heavier travel trailers.
What about all the sway issues you've read about with 1/2 tons and shorter trailers? Shouldn't that scare you away from towing altogether?
Frankly I am not sure what sway issues you've read about, because nearly all of the supposed "sway" I've read about on here is NOT SWAY. The trailer bobbles a little and comes right back in line. That's called rough road. That's called wind. That's called a large vehicle passing at high speed. If it didn't require active correction and/or did not kill you, it was NOT sway.
Besides if you take precautions and load the trailer with some common sense, you won't have sway to begin with. Use a good integrated sway control for "belt and suspenders" protection, and you have nothing to worry about.
โMar-19-2021 07:09 AM
Gene K 2 wrote:
Thanks Guys...
I guess I'm gunshy because of all the sway issues I've read about with 1/2 tons and longer heavier travel trailers.
โMar-18-2021 03:32 PM
APT wrote:
6k dry is my standard recommendation for the more capable half tons. People that but 7kdry+ and have someone like your truck generally report some form of stability issues when towing @highway speeds. There are exceptions for certain needle in haystack half tons like Ford's Max Payload package or GM's NHT package. That GD 2250 is 5500 pounds dry, Even at 7k loaded, 1000 pound TW, you have 900 pounds of payload to load in on cab and bed. Seems like plenty of margin to me. ๐
โMar-18-2021 11:39 AM
goducks10 wrote:Sjm9911 wrote:
That was always very common, especially in pop ups , not sure how it is with TT. The published weigjts were out of the factory, anything added at the dealer was extra weight. So everything was an add on. But it does list tanks adding up to 190 gallons, so black, greay and fresh, filling those at 8.3 gallons adds 1570 or so lbs. So it needs a high gvwr or you would not be able to use the tanks it has.
Explain a common situation where you'd travel with all 3 tanks full.
We dry camp, water/elec camp and FH camp. When dry camping we empty our 80 gal fresh into the black and grey. So only 80 gal total.
When we FH camp we dump the grey and black and may fill the fresh if we're heading to a dry camping spot.
If we're on water/elec only then the fresh is not filling and we would dump the grey and black leaving nothing or again maybe filling the fresh for future use.
In our short 11 years of RV'ing we've never had all 3 tanks full at once.
โMar-18-2021 09:51 AM
Gene K 2 wrote:
Thanks Guys...
I guess I'm gunshy because of all the sway issues I've read about with 1/2 tons and longer heavier travel trailers.
At 27' 11" a 2250RK doesn't really appear as small to me as I'm sure it appears to some of you. 1.5' longer and 25% Heavier seems like a significant change
โMar-18-2021 08:57 AM
Sjm9911 wrote:
That was always very common, especially in pop ups , not sure how it is with TT. The published weigjts were out of the factory, anything added at the dealer was extra weight. So everything was an add on. But it does list tanks adding up to 190 gallons, so black, greay and fresh, filling those at 8.3 gallons adds 1570 or so lbs. So it needs a high gvwr or you would not be able to use the tanks it has.
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