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Re: Not enough tension on dealer installed wdh?
Thanks for all the quick responses! I think my suspicion has been confirmed. The hitch height and weight distribution should have been setup with the TV on and auto leveling engaged. It was not. I unhooked the swaybars by hand easy enough without extending the ram jack. I also apreciate the comment about weight for my TV. It was something I spent a fair amount of time researching. What I came up with is it is not a drive train issue as I have the 6.2 liter lt1 corvette engine (insert Tim Allen man grunts), 4:20s in the back, and slotted roters. But instead it's a suspension/hitch weight thing. Too bad they don't make 3/4 ton Yukons any more... After much soul searching I opted to pass on the 5800 pound dry weight 28' with 1000 pounds of cargo I was considering. Instead for about the same dry weight I got 15 instead of 14" wheels. That gained an extra 1000 pounds of cargo capacity. They way I'm looking at it is that adds design margin not more stuff I can haul. I like to camp light and have no intension of loading heavy or carrying water beyond the dump station. I'll take it back into the dealer with my concern about hitch height and weight distribution in Spring. Appreciate the advice!521Views0likes0CommentsNot enough tension on dealer installed wdh?
Hi guys! I just picked up my first TT. My rv dealer put me into a nice curt equalizer hitch setup. This is the first time I'm towing something this size that requires a wdh setup. I am a bigger guy and am able to hook up the sway bars by hand without much effort and do not have to use the ram jack to lift the back of my TV to do it. My TV is a 2015 Yukon Denali XL with auto load leveling and anti sway breaking. The TT is a 2018 33' with dry weight about 6 k gvw of 8k. After starting the TV, auto load leveling turned on and it looked to me like the hitch was set a little high causing the TT to pitch back some. The dealer tech told me it would be fine once I started adding cargo weight to the new unit. Driving home I noticed a little bucking on a rough road and at over 50 mph I also felt some ocasional pushing my TV side to side. There were 15 to 20 mph winds that day. Is this normal for an empty TT or is the hitch too high and/or not enough tension on the sway bars? The TT is in winter storage now so no measuring or photos until Sping. Thanks in advance.4.6KViews0likes14Comments
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