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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drsteve wrote:Larry JM 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
Sorry, but that is incorrect--tongue weight doesn't enter into the equation. Read the sticky on WD hitch setup by Ron Gratz. Tongue weight could be zero, and the hitch would still redistribute the same amount of weight.
Sure it does, from Ron's thread you referenced in his first post he explains ....
A weight distribution system enables a tow vehicle to more effectively handle the tongue weight of a trailer by removing some of the load from the tow vehicle's rear axle and distributing it to the tow vehicle's front axle and the trailer's axle(s)[unquote].
That load on the rear axle w/o the WDH engaged includes the tongue wt and the total wt. on the two axles of the Tow Vehicle equals it's wt. w/o the trailer attached plus the tongue wt. When the WDH is engaged that wt. will be less by the amount that the WDH redistributes to the TT axles (i.e. reducing the "ORIGINAL LOAD" ... i.e. tongue wt that was originally cargo against the TV cargo capacity).
Larry
