Towing with Auto Leveling
Hi all, I have a 2017 with the max tow package and it comes with auto level or airride. I also have a Curt weight distribution and sway control hitch. I pulled my 24ft hybrid camper last weekend 51...
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Agree with above, but here is some more detail.
Do you remember see-saws or teeter-tooters? Push/sit on one side, other side goes up with a fixed fulcrum in the middle. That is the same physics as dropping a trailer tongue on a tow vehicle ball. The fulcrum is the rear axle, and the "other side" is the front axle. A WDH restores weight removed from the front axle.
Here is a typical example:
1000 pounds of TW
Drop the tongue on the ball
TV rear axle increases by 1400 pounds.
TV front axle loses 400 pounds.
Air bags or auto leveling suspension does not change those weights. If someone were to adjust a WDH to restore all 400 pounds lost on the TV front axles, the rear axle would only have about 800 pounds more than unhitched with about 200 pounds going to the TT axles.
I like what HarleyEnough said about suspension height as "an artifact of the real purpose, a measurable artifact of what it's really doing".
Do you remember see-saws or teeter-tooters? Push/sit on one side, other side goes up with a fixed fulcrum in the middle. That is the same physics as dropping a trailer tongue on a tow vehicle ball. The fulcrum is the rear axle, and the "other side" is the front axle. A WDH restores weight removed from the front axle.
Here is a typical example:
1000 pounds of TW
Drop the tongue on the ball
TV rear axle increases by 1400 pounds.
TV front axle loses 400 pounds.
Air bags or auto leveling suspension does not change those weights. If someone were to adjust a WDH to restore all 400 pounds lost on the TV front axles, the rear axle would only have about 800 pounds more than unhitched with about 200 pounds going to the TT axles.
I like what HarleyEnough said about suspension height as "an artifact of the real purpose, a measurable artifact of what it's really doing".
