payload and WD hitch clarification
With four sons and a wife in a Nissan Armada with 1450 payload, tongue weight becomes a factor pretty quick. We're in the market for a camper that'll sleep all of us. What I believe I understand: ...
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fourboysdad wrote:
410 - Totally get that. I definitely understand that dry weight is meaningless. In this post, I'm basically trying to grasp whether a properly set up WD hitch does in fact take a percentage of hitch load off of the truck frame.
Knowing this will help me ensure that I don't overload the truck. Thanks!
The problem here is that if you are that close to have to be figuring if the small amount of dead tongue wt. being transferred back to the trailer axles when the WDH is hook up tells me you're too close to begin with. This is because you have absolutely no idea what the dead tongue wt. will ACTUALLY BE and typically the percent of dead tongue wt. (i.e. the wt. of the trailer tongue independently measured by a scale) is only in the 10 to 25% range so at 700 lbs that is only 70 to 175 lbs and if your cutting things that close IMO you don't have enough reserve to be safe and comfortable.
Larry
