Loading and balancing the trailer

Wow, this is very interesting and you are taking it to a level that I am going to need more time to digest.  In the meantime I have a tee time for golf at 10 am, while my wife is waiting to go camping and then we will camp this Friday thru Sunday morning in Kingsley (MI).  Come home for a day and then leave again Monday morning for our last r-pod gathering with other podders near Roscommon at S. Higgens Lake State Park for a few days.  NO SNOW FORECAST ! so that is a good thing.  Problem is that for the 30 days we were gone in September in CO and UT we had bountiful sunshine EVERY day, man did we get spoiled!  Then back to gloomy northern Michigan.  We are about ready to go back west again, as you can imagine if you live in this neck of the woods. 

Back to the topic at hand,  Keep the posts rolling, I am learning a lot here, thank you all for all your expertise, hopefully this brain will be able to retain more than a trace of what has been shared thus far.

I've now past the axle and working aft. In the 182g I have a upper bunk which I remove and add a rear corner cabinet. 

This has brought on a interesting situation and as I think of it it applies to some of the fore weight as well. That is factoring weight per side on the axle. 

Being the slide side is probably heavy from just that, then add frig goodies and my pantry (your Micro) this seems to be fairly important. Especially since my issue was the frame on slide side.

Why do I have this feeling OG has a formula for just that.. I do not mean to put you on the spot, yet you do really understand these things. So I guess I do.. and it is so appreciated. 

So far the numbers are coming out heavier than I weighed in at, yet not quite done and seem to be on track. 

Goal for me is to get to my factored hitch weight 400#'s (or up to 420#'s). With all said and done right now, I'm looking at 281#'s of gear in the garage (or storage under). Which I highly doubt I now carry. I may just throw the spare back in the trailer and open up some cargo area in the Tacoma. 

Onward I go!

  

So say if you add 100 lbs 4 feet behind the axle and the axle to hitch distance is 13 ft then you have reduced the hitch weight by 100*4/13=31 lbs. So to net out the new trailer total weight the axle weight has to go up by 100+31=131 lbs. 

If instead you add the 100 lbs 4 ft in front of the axle then the hitch weight is increased by the 31 lbs so the axle weight only goes up 100-31=69 lbs. 

Make sense? 

Thus, my added weight to counter balance is 107#'s, distance hitch to axle being 156" and load area behind axle being 66"

107 x 156 / 66 = 253#'s of gear to counter balance the added 107#'s on the hitch I added.

The 107#'s added to hitch comes from 136#'s of battery X Battery to axle 123" / hitch to axle 156"

136 x 123 / 156 = 107

I will get this right sooner or later... With your help of course!