brianinca
Well-Known Member
One of my concerns about the Opus/offroad trailer we're shopping for is the inability to use a WDH with the off-road revolver hitches. At 4500 lbs, the weight of a lot of the types we're looking at, it's 1000 lbs past the book "must use WDH". I've a set of Firestone airbags that will hopefully bridge the gap - not to increase the payload, but to increase the pre-load. Between the bags and Sumo springs, that will get us closer to where we are with a WDH and a 6000 lb conventional travel trailer.
We use a Husky with torsion bars, which provides sway control. As much as I like the fancier trailers, we may drop back to the simpler rigs with a max gross of 3500 lbs, it's that big of a deal.
The purpose of a WDH is to keep your front tires loaded and in control of the vehicle. It's not to be an inconvenience or an add-on, it's to keep you safe and happy. With a single axle trailer, you're already dealing with a lot less inherent stability than with a double axle rig.
It's bad enough seeing mal-adjusted WDH's on the road, it's FRIGHTENING to see bumper hitched SUV's with their asses dragging the pavement and front suspensions unloaded. We just got back from 1300 miles through NV, AZ and UT, and saw more than a few wrecks waiting to happen.
No travel trailer, because an 80 MPH windstorm was forecast, and that was bad enough with just the brick! Doing a flight plan for travel trailers is a different post.
We use a Husky with torsion bars, which provides sway control. As much as I like the fancier trailers, we may drop back to the simpler rigs with a max gross of 3500 lbs, it's that big of a deal.
The purpose of a WDH is to keep your front tires loaded and in control of the vehicle. It's not to be an inconvenience or an add-on, it's to keep you safe and happy. With a single axle trailer, you're already dealing with a lot less inherent stability than with a double axle rig.
It's bad enough seeing mal-adjusted WDH's on the road, it's FRIGHTENING to see bumper hitched SUV's with their asses dragging the pavement and front suspensions unloaded. We just got back from 1300 miles through NV, AZ and UT, and saw more than a few wrecks waiting to happen.
No travel trailer, because an 80 MPH windstorm was forecast, and that was bad enough with just the brick! Doing a flight plan for travel trailers is a different post.
Since the gladiator has electronic sway control would I need a weight distribution hitch for a 4000lbs trailer? The RV salesman is pushing for one but I haven't seen anyone using one at that weight....
JJ
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