Need advice on toy hauler swaying on freeway

09KZMXT266 wrote:
I couldn't stand waiting, so I drove up the trailer storage place. This was not ideal, but I wanted to mess around anyway. The lot slopes a little right to left. Front to back was fairly level. I put the scale on a 2x4 atop my 2 ton car jack and lifted the trailer. My hitch and bars were in the front compartment, so I weighed it with the hitch sort of. I tried it 3 times and came up with 800 lbs. all 3 times. So, the TW is pretty much what I thought after doing the 3 weighs with the Tacoma at the Cat scales.

I quickly read over your previous posts, and please tell me if I'm missing something, or did not one single person pick this up???

You have a trailer that weighs (rounding up) 4,000lbs with a confirmed tongue of 800lbs, without the Harley on board??? AND you were towing with a WDH????

800lbs is 20% of the trailer weight on the tongue, WAY to high and very likely the cause of your earlier sway problem with the Toyota.


However, what really matters is what it tongue and trailer weigh when you have the Harley loaded. It sounds like you have a typical toy trailer with as designed heavy tongue weight when unloaded, for when its loaded you dont end up with a very light tongue weight.

So don't get too worked up about weights and payload until you weigh everything as your loaded for a real trip...most importantly with the HD strapped down.

Then you can use your new tongue weight scale to dial in the perfect balance of 10-15% tongue weight. (Most 1/2+ ton trucks like a 12-14% range.) You could also place some items you thought you'd put in the truck bed in the trailer, which takes more weight out of the payload equation.