Tongue weight & equalizer
I am buying a Ultra Lite 2702ws which has a tongue weight of 800 pounds. My dealer says that an equalizer will be able to reduce the tongue weight in half. Does this seem correct?
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LarryJM wrote:drsteve wrote:
The tongue weight is still the same, it's still on the hitch, and must still be counted against the cargo capacity of the TV.
While the first half of you statement is true the second half is WRONG. The dead (i.e. what would be measured by something like a Sherline TW scale) tongue weight will not change the amount of that TW that will be "cargo" on the TV will be that dead TW minus what the WDH will transfer/redistribute to the TT axles which is typically in the 15 to 25 of the dead tongue wt.
Larry
Except, without multiple trips to the scales to figure out exactly what effect the WD hitch has on your rig, you have NO IDEA how much of that TW counts against your payload.
The safe route is to count ALL of the TW against the payload of the vehicle regardless of the effect of the WD hitch. Otherwise you are just guessing.
Ultimately, if you are depending on the WD hitch to keep from overloading the tow vehicle, you need a better tow vehicle.
