Heaviest tow to date:

My X spent the last week in New Hampshire at a friend's house; I am helping her move back to upstate New York. I told her about a dozen times about how the tongue can't be overloaded. I arrived and saw this:





We removed a generator from the nose, put it in the X, added 14 sand bags to the rear of the trailer, setup the WD kit, and inflated the airbags. Looks better:



But no scale anywhere close. I reluctantly agreed to go and get it weighed on the way, and unfortunately the first one I came across was in Albany.



Wow...closest I can tell there is nearly 2,000 lbs on the tongue. While that's about right for a 15,000+ lb trailer, it's double the capacity for the hitch. It towed great the whole way out here without any stability issues, but I was nervous the whole way. I have about 20 miles to go tomorrow before it gets parked and unloaded, with any luck I won't end up on the evening news.

 

My prayers are with you

 

Careful Tom, people will start picking on you about your weights like they do Russ about his speed...

 

I HAD to chuckle at that one! thanks Jon

take it slow and easy Tom, i'm sure you'll be fine! this coming from the speed demon on C rated tires so take it with a grain of salt

 

No doubt, and they'd be right. None of my axles are over GAWR though, but nearly doubling the rated tongue weight makes me VERY nervous. Very stable tow though, had no issues with trailer sway whatsoever. The Red-Head steering gear had lots to do with that, as did having the proper amount of tongue weight.

I don't plan on ever towing this heavy again with this truck. I'm comfortable with everything but the tongue weight, but that's not something I can upgrade. It'll be a Super Duty with a bigger hitch next time it's loaded this heavy.

Thanks Russ! Slow and easy was the name of the game; this time I set the cruise at 60 MPH and let it ride once I got to the interstate. Even at 6,000 lbs above rated GCWR I was able to cruise under 2,000 RPMs on the interstate for the majority of the time.

 

goes to show what a work horse the old 2V V10 is!!

 

It looks like your WD bars might be a little light for the job.

Mark