New trailer swaying, looking for advice
Hello! Brand new posting, but have read the forum for a long time. Brief intro.. We have camped for many years, our first camper was a 17 foot Palomino Stampede Hybrid. We towed it with a Nissa...
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Gussie757 wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:We tried a few different things this past weekend,
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Hi-- Well, first we tried to weight the tongue with a bathroom scale, 236 pounds, but not sure how accurate that was.... My husband got a hitch with a lower mount, we put a 40 pound bag of water softener salt in the trailer, at the very front. He thought it was better, I was following behind him, I thought at one point on the freeway he was swaying quite a bit, but he said he wasn't aware of it like he was before. It was a lot more bouncy though, and the curtains rods all fell off, and that never happened before. That was all we had time to do...
I guess I should mention this is close to an empty trailer, there are two camping chairs, two hoses, a few pans and silverware and paper plates and cups, a bucket with some cleaning supplies, sheets and a comforter, that's about it, we haven't stocked it much yet. Oh, my husband has some tools, but they are in the SUV. So it's hard when people say to distribute the weight because we haven't camped in it really yet so not much to move around. Once again, thanks in advance for any advice!
IMHO there is your problem. You are right at 10% on the tongue. Too light. I would put at least 200+ more pounds in the front of the trailer if your TV is ok with it and take it for a drive!
