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    Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 2:19pm
What brand/model of WDH do you have?
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Posts: 159 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Aug 2017 at 3:51pm
Originally posted by Jenga Jack

What brand/model of WDH do you have?

Not sure who you are asking but I don't have a WD, just a sway bar
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This is an interesting topic to me as I just brought home tonight a new 2017 4Runner.  My 2006 was totaled in a freeway accident last week. (not my fault or liability).  I just looked through the new owners manual and in the towing section it mentions that anti sway set up is required when towing over 2000 Lbs.  I never used anti sway with my previous 4Runner and never felt that I needed it  I may check into it with the new Runner.

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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 7:48am
Again vehicle specific. I could get away with no sway, but use it because I feel safer and it is easy to hook up. My owners manuals(s) don't mention anti-sway.
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Posts: 105 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 7:59am
We tow a 179 with a 2016 4Runner.  The vehicle we entered the podding world with was a 2012 Rav Sport so we got the E2 when we got the Pod.  I just had it set up for the 4Runner which didn't need the WD as much as the Rav but still not sorry I have it.....it does make a small difference and I would think it makes it a little easier on the 4Runner as well.  We did a 5,000 kilometer trip in June around the Great Lakes and ran into all kinds of weather and really wasn't sorry I had the E2 as there was virtually no noticeable sway issues at all.  Just my HO but go with the works....I don't think you'll be sorry.
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Posts: 65 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Aug 2017 at 1:49pm
I had quite a bit of sway before adding a friction sway control bar which eliminated it. As light as the tongue of the Rpod is  weight distribution may not be necessary, but it cannot hurt. I would have gone with the E2 if my Xterra did not already have airbags to firm up the rear.
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Posts: 63 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Aug 2017 at 2:46pm
Thank you all for your feedback. After all the comments and hours or research, it's still confusing! So convince me that it'd be foolish to just get sway control bar, and not a WDH. 
2015 4Runner, 6 cyl, GVWR 6300lbs, 5000lb towing capacity, 500lb max tongue wt (owners manual suggests sway bar, says nothing about a WDH)
2014 R-Pod 178, dry wt 2800lbs, maybe 3500lbs with gear.
I have an appointment to install a CURT ball & chain WDH #17050, but am having second thoughts. What to do? Confused
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Aug 2017 at 2:58pm
With that short a vehicle I would go ahead with the WDH and sway control.
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Aug 2017 at 3:10pm
Originally posted by spydie

I noticed some tail-wag on my new 2018 R-pod 176 on the way back to NM from AR with the water tank about 2/3 full.  When I got home I saw why... the darned fresh water tank is way at the rear of the Pod behind the grey water tank, which is right behind the axel.  I had a sway bar on the 2017 RAM 1500 and kept tightening it up all the way home.  It had to be real tight before the sway stopped.  No WD needed on most full size trucks, though.  Sits level without one.


I am surprised you had sway with a full sized PU for a TV.  I think my 177 is plumbed like your pod and I nearly always have water in the tank.  If we are traveling with the pod and will be in truckstops or parking lots I want to be able to use the bathroom and shower so I need water.  I have towed with the tank full on several occasions and haven't had any sway.

My TV is a supercrew with a 6' box.  Is that longer than yours?  That may be the difference.  I also have the heavy duty trailer towing package and could tow 11,000 pounds if I wanted to, but I am not sure that would eliminate sway.
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Posts: 305 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Aug 2017 at 3:35pm
I would tow either with full or empty fresh water tanks, and not partially full. I saw Sean Michael of Long Long Honeymoon on YouTube talk about the force of the weight of water can have on sway when the tank is partially full. 8+lbs per gallon moving side to side in the tank only happens when there is room in the tank to move. Take 10 gallons fresh in a 30 gallon tank and you are moving 80+lbs side to side sloshing in the tank. 20 gallons is > 160lbs sloshing. Eliminate the room for the water to move by going out full or empty is my counsel. Add the effect on some models where the tank is behind the axle and no thanks on towing partially full.
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