Weight Distribution Hitches

That is a great explanation, very understandable.

Originally posted by lostagain Glad to see that someone else on this board is 75 besides me.   I've adjusted our Fastway E2 for two different trucks and trailers.  It was mostly just a matter of moving the hitch bracket or the torsion bar L brackets up or down, to achieve a level TV.  Fastway has a helpful video on how to do it.  Since all WDH's are used on different TV/trailer configurations, it'd seem that they'd all have to have some kind of adjustment capacity.  I never towed our 172 with our Ford and it may have not really needed a WHD for that weight of trailer.  It sure smoothes out the ride with our Sonoma, though.

LA, I figured you might have been taking a shortcut in your post but I thought it might help out our less experienced members to explain the whole process.

I had a Reese Pro and it has the same setup procedure in it's instructions. I think I looked at one or two others and they did as well.

It's really the only right way to do it if yug think about it. Bad things can happen if you overtension to get the TV level, and under tensioning kinda defeats the whole purpose of having the wdh to begin with.

But yeah, even with a wdh, you may need to adjust your headlights for towing, just like you would if you were carrying a big load in the bed of your truck all the time.

Conincidentally I was just looking at how much I can really tow with my Chinook in case we want to take my wife's horse with us on a trip. There are quite a few parks that have set aside special equestrian campsites, and they tend to be less crowded and overbooked than standard sites.

It turns out that while the Chinook is built on a heavy dually chassis, it has a really long rear overhang so suffers from the teeter totter problem in my post. I'm going to be able to tow the horse trailer with it but I'll need a wdh. I gave my old one to the couple I sold my rpod to so there's another expense for me to get back into RVing. Can't plan for everything I guess.

Originally posted by lostagain You could have the horse pull your Chinook.

Maybe him and 249 more of his friends. That's about what the old 7.5 liter V8 up front is rated for. And I need every one of those ponies. That sucker is heavy, weighed in at around 9000 lbs empty at my landfill scales.

Still, I suppose it could work, but where would I keep all the hay? I'd need about 80 bales per day. And then a trailer twice the size of my horse trailer to carry the hay. And then another 20 more horses to haul that. And hay for them too. I don't like where this is heading....

How did our pioneer ancestors ever do it?

Oh, I know, on their best days they covered what we do in 15 minutes. Not counting days off for grazing the horses, which they could do but we can't cause it was open range back then. And let's not forget that around 5 to 10 percent of them died on the way from Cholera or whatever. That's no fun.

I think Id be much better off converting the Chinook to electric drive and running it off the 1500 watt solar array I'm putting on the roof. By my rough calculations I ought to be able to travel between 5 and 10 miles a day that way. That'd probably be at least as fast as the pioneer method, and a whole lot less work.

Something else to add to the WDH topic is the use of suspension enhancement devices on the TV such as SumoSprings, helper leaf springs, air bags, and progressive spring enhancements such as the Roadmaster Active Suspension. I think I lucked out in my application on my 2017 Frontier 2WD to which I installed SumoSprings(blue) as well as utilized a E2 WDH. Many many trouble free miles with that combo, just made sure I installed the Sumos first then worked the WDH install and adjustment from there.