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    Posted: 11 Jul 2014 at 4:25pm
I agree with the others too.  I used to haul my water as the wife wanted her water from home (yawn).  Not only would it create sway, slow my truck down but would also eat into my fuel cost as I was pulling more weight.  The fix was to get rid of the wife, only joking, we now fill as close to our dry camp spot as possible.
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I thought the Equalizer WDH had the sway control built in.  Why would you need an additional sway control device?
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Two things:  I don't use sway bars, so I can't help with that.  As others have said, 300 pounds of water behind the axle is going to have a negative impact sway and balance.  There are times, usually short distances, when you need to have your fresh tank full, but you can usually get water at or close to your destination.  Hauling water, potable or waste, any further than you have to is to be avoided.  Five or 10 gallons for emergency stops is usually plenty.

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Sway is almost always caused by too little tongue weight. If the water tank is behind the axle and you can't move other loads forward to compensate you'll have to unload some water.  If your tank is full that is around 300 lbs of water!
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Posts: 217 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2014 at 12:38pm
with the fresh water tank filled, how much tongue weight do you have?
Since the fresh water tank is behind the axle on a 178, adding water removes tongue weight. The rule of thumb that I follow is 10% of the trailer weight should be on the tongue.
That said, I fought terrible crosswinds coming home across Kansas & had bad sway. Or what I would consider sway. A local said that it was a breeze....
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Hi all. I am having sway issues with my '15 178 towed with a Ford Explorer V8 set up with equalizer and 1 anti sway bar. It was installed and set up by the dealer, (Can Am RV near London Ont)and during the test drive it seemed ok up to 90 km/hr. I filled the fresh water tank and drove the 401 hwy at 100 km/hr and had quite a bit of sway. I tightened the sway control lever as much as I could by hand and also the nut below the lever. I see no improvement. Has anyone had similar issues or needed a second sway bar? Can one over-tighten these bars? This is my first experience with an equalizer and TT after 20+ yrs of pop-ups. Am I expecting too much from the sway control at higher speeds?

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