[Fot] trailer stuff

[Bill Tobin]

I'm not sure what the other guys say but I think there may be a bit too much tongue weight. Guys?
I load my car rear end first to get the weight right; put the engine about over the axles. About 600 lb on the tongue.
My trailer is 81/2 x 24, 7000 gross and pulled by a Ram 1500, with airbags.
My $.02 worth.
Good luck and have fun.
Bill
PS: my trailer is a V-nose, which may tow easier. At 70 mph with no problems. (Yet!) Yeah, I got a Hemi.---- Original Message ----- 
  From: marty via Fot 
  To: FOT 
  Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 1:20 PM
  Subject: [Fot] trailer stuff




  Need some feedback from all you trailer guys.  My history has been pulling my Spitfire on an aluminum open trailer with a F-150 and upgraded to a new F250 SWR last year. I could barely ever notice that I was pulling a trailer. Fast forward to a few months ago. I purchased a 2004 CargoMate enclosed trailer/toy hauler. 28 foot box  10 foot tall. 12,500 GVW, torsion axles. I spent the last few months going over mechanicals.  New load rage F trailer tires. New Curt bar style distribution hitch. Truck has a 12,400 trailer capacity and 1,250 max tongue  weight. The trailer as it sits right now with the car in it is 9,300 pounds and tongue weight is 1025 pounds. The engine of the car is pretty much centered over the axles.  I have been test driving it yesterday and today to get a feel for it as I had planed to make the 450 mile trek to Blackhawk farms this coming Thursday. Winds here have been 21 mph, gusting to 28.  I can feel the trailer pulling me side to side quite a bit. Traveling at speed is a bit unnerving. I have gone over everything time and time again and everything looks proper and too the book.  I don't know if this is normal and I just have a learning curve to go through going from a light open trailer to this tank or is there something I am missing. What you say?


  Thanks,
  Marty


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