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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm not sure what the other guys say but I think
there may be a bit too much tongue weight. Guys?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My trailer is 81/2 x 24, 7000 gross and pulled by a
Ram 1500, with airbags.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My $.02 worth.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Good luck and have fun.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bill</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PS: my trailer is a V-nose, which may tow easier.
At 70 mph with no problems. (Yet!) Yeah, I got a Hemi.</FONT>---- Original
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 11, 2017 1:20 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Fot] trailer stuff</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Marty</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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