A trailer story from last week-- Last week I used my trailer to haul a '40
Ford coupe--went about 100 miles up Interstate 5 no problems- (I service my
trailer regularly) However I did realize that the tires were about 7 years
old but looked perfect. The next day we were towing unloaded and the right
front exploded and tore the fender all to shreds. Moral--Know how old your
trailer tires are. I now have 5 new Michelins.
Tom Stewart
# 385 Monza
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:50 AM
To: Ken Bond; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Tow Trailer set-up comments
Ken,
I think that 20% tongue weight might be too high
on some rigs, depending on what your gross
trailer weight is. I have repeatedly been told
that about 500 lbs tongue weight is ideal. In
most of our cases 500 pounds is probably close to
the 10% figure of the gross weight anyhow, so 10%
seems to work. With my rig (16 foot tandem
flatbed with car, tools, parts and equipment, I'm
running around 6200 pounds gross weight. If I
put 1240 pounds on my hitch, I think it would
almost lift the front wheels of my truck off the
ground, and it would be too much strain on the
hitch. I probably run as high as 650 or 700
sometimes (because I just can't shift the load
where I want it) but I use load levelers to
compensate. I also learned the hard way (many
years ago) that with anything under 200 pounds on
the hitch, the trailer will steer the truck -
-sometimes not where you want it to go!
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