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Old 03-28-2011, 09:06 AM   #22
Mr. Adventure
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Thanks Mr. Adventure and Bill,

The TM and TV sit fore/aft level when hooked up and loaded (Eyeballing).The Rear of the TV and front of the TM squat without the WDH hooked up. I have set the spring bars a link looser in the past and do notice more squat.Maybe I do have a very heavy tongue on my TM.I agree,I should visit a scale.
Without any appreciable water in the tank, my 3023 weighed 506# on the tongue, with a moderate load inside (I'd estimate no more than 150# of my stuff from the refrigerator forward). I also swapped the battery forward for an Optima in the storage compartment, which could make a 100# or so reduction on the tongue (because I tow with a lighter tow vehicle, I liked the idea of a 500# tongue better than a 600# tongue). So just guessing, I'd expect yours to be somewhere in this same ballpark, and well within reason for your tow vehicle. So I wouldn't expect you to need nearly so heavy a setting for your hitch bars.

When you measure the front fender to the pavement on a level surface before hitching and hitched, with and without the bars, what do you get?

With the trailer unhitched and level, where is the trailer hitch position versus the unhitched position of the hitch ball (measure the bottom of the trailer hitch minus an inch or so versus the base of the hitch ball on the tow vehicle)?
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