Hauled my brothers show truck
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Did you pull leafs or something cause not even my rig with a deaver mini pack sags that bad with my toy hauler on the back
You got a lot of tongue weight thats why. I would of gotten his truck back 18"-24". Also in the pic your trailer is down hill of even more weight has shifted to your tongue.
Exactly.
Weight placement on the trailer is the issue. My first though when I saw the pic; was that you need more trailer, not more suspension.
the front axle of your brothers truck is 4000-4500lbs sitting roughly 1/2 between the tandem center and the hitch... which would generate some ~1500-2000lb tongue weight. you where probably very close to 8,000lb gross if not over on the rear axle
moving the truck back till the rear axle was couple inches in front the dove would have leveled the weight better
the trucks will squat quite a bit till all the leaf springs are in play. talking 3-5" depending on how heavy the truck is before you load it... and it you leveled the truck empty and load it hello Cali lean and over loaded look :rofl:
if you really want to know type in your zip code http://catscale.com/ it will tell you closest scale
first scale is 10.00 second is 2.00 put the
1.front axle on the first pad second axle on the second pad
2.push the "call" button tell them it its first weigh and truck number is "private/personal"
3 park the truck or pull all the way through a fuel island so not to block it..
4 walk in to truck fuel desk give the assistant 10.00
5 let us know how bad you overloaded your rear axle so we can rib you about it
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talking about your rear axle on the truck. at best you got is maybe 7,000lb worth of rims and tires on the truck...
01-06 2500HD has
11,000lb axle
6000lb springs
rims and tires are week link
oke:who makes 7500lb trailer axles now a days?
i dont like doing that especially on a tag trailer.... toooooo easy to "wag the dog" like that due to the trailer being too ass heavy
Not enough pin weight is far scarier than too much. lol
I agree. Moving it back a foot or two and loading on a level surface would've helped a bunch.
I agree. Moving it back a foot or two and loading on a level surface would've helped a bunch.
talking about your rear axle on the truck. at best you got is maybe 7,000lb worth of rims and tires on the truck...
01-06 2500HD has
11,000lb axle
6000lb springs
rims and tires are week link
who makes 7500lb trailer axles now a days?
Custom ordered from heartland trailer it can haul a dump truck if I wanted