WDH with sawy control, best bang for buck?
I am going to replace the Husky I have that works flawlessly with my horse trailer, but not so much with my new TT. Since it is already setup for my HT, it does not like the new trailer, it sits too h...
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Well, I just went out, leveled up the trailer dead on, and measured the top of the socket. It came out to be at the exact same height as the ball on the hitch.
When you look at the setup on the lot, it looks to be a bit nose high, but I didn't have a level with me to verify.
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Dont know if that will post, but its a pic I took after getting it hitched up. The one real difference is the number of links used. I have 1 link free after tipping them. I am going to review the manual again, I may need to tip the ball back a bit to get more tension on the springs the proper way. I believe that when I tried to go 5 links like my HT is set to, that the bar was angled up towards the frame and not parallel to the ground. I don't know if it will make much difference though for sway. When the wind was behind me, the truck handled beautifully. If fact it pulled the TT better than it does my 6x12 single axle enclosed. I will hitch it up later, grab my level and some tools and head over to a parking lot to get more exact measurements, but so far I am not seeing that it is out of whack.
The weights for the truck was 3020 on the front axle, 3620 on the rear and trailer was 4480. I am going to see if I can borrow the scale where I get horse feed and try to get tongue weight. The front axle seems a bit light, which is what leads me to think I need to add some angle to the head so I can get more tension on the bars while keeping them level, and that may be all it needs.
The sway was not white knuckle bad, but it was enough that it required full attention with both hands on deck. The truck maintained full control, but I can feel the trailer flopping around back there and see it wagging in the mirrors. The only time I ever had a bad sway pulling a trailer was with a 2001 F150 pulling a heavy dump trailer that was tail heavy. It set up a sway that had the front of the truck going, but a tap on the trailer brakes settled it down. I was ready for it yesterday to hit the trailer brakes if needed, but even at its worst it never got anywhere near what happened that one time. Probably just a case of fine tuning.
The thing that made me think it was nose high was that I couldn't back under it with the jack fully extended, they had to raise it up for me to hitch to it, thinking my ball was too high, and it turns out it is actually an inch low. I'm not going to raise it unless I find the trailer is actually nose down, which I doubt.
Got to say though, that Ecoboost has some grunt. I don't think I ever went over 2500 RPM towing this trailer. It easily sped up to 70 MPH, and I had to force myself to back it down a few times.
When you look at the setup on the lot, it looks to be a bit nose high, but I didn't have a level with me to verify.
https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13403255_1123145511060915_6426013248915186543_o.jpg
Dont know if that will post, but its a pic I took after getting it hitched up. The one real difference is the number of links used. I have 1 link free after tipping them. I am going to review the manual again, I may need to tip the ball back a bit to get more tension on the springs the proper way. I believe that when I tried to go 5 links like my HT is set to, that the bar was angled up towards the frame and not parallel to the ground. I don't know if it will make much difference though for sway. When the wind was behind me, the truck handled beautifully. If fact it pulled the TT better than it does my 6x12 single axle enclosed. I will hitch it up later, grab my level and some tools and head over to a parking lot to get more exact measurements, but so far I am not seeing that it is out of whack.
The weights for the truck was 3020 on the front axle, 3620 on the rear and trailer was 4480. I am going to see if I can borrow the scale where I get horse feed and try to get tongue weight. The front axle seems a bit light, which is what leads me to think I need to add some angle to the head so I can get more tension on the bars while keeping them level, and that may be all it needs.
The sway was not white knuckle bad, but it was enough that it required full attention with both hands on deck. The truck maintained full control, but I can feel the trailer flopping around back there and see it wagging in the mirrors. The only time I ever had a bad sway pulling a trailer was with a 2001 F150 pulling a heavy dump trailer that was tail heavy. It set up a sway that had the front of the truck going, but a tap on the trailer brakes settled it down. I was ready for it yesterday to hit the trailer brakes if needed, but even at its worst it never got anywhere near what happened that one time. Probably just a case of fine tuning.
The thing that made me think it was nose high was that I couldn't back under it with the jack fully extended, they had to raise it up for me to hitch to it, thinking my ball was too high, and it turns out it is actually an inch low. I'm not going to raise it unless I find the trailer is actually nose down, which I doubt.
Got to say though, that Ecoboost has some grunt. I don't think I ever went over 2500 RPM towing this trailer. It easily sped up to 70 MPH, and I had to force myself to back it down a few times.
