Dr0idattack
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How many washers? I’m using seven I think.
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Here's another reading from the scale. Moving the brackets all the way up moved around 300 lbs to the front. But team mom asked us to haul some beverages, so rear axle actually went over by 520 lbs. I wasn't happy about that, but it was my error because we didn't load the additional weight in the trailer like we were supposed to. Front axle was 480lbs below capacity and we were 360lbs below GCWR. This is two adults and two kids, around 650 lbs. I think we need stiffer bars for the WDH. Not enough weight moving forwards.
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I am in a similar situation - Quad bunk with 4 kids. We pull a Cruiser RV - Shadow Cruiser 280QBS. I have a 2017 EL Limited.
Here is the floorpan - https://www.cruiserrv.com/2018/travel-trailers/shadow-cruiser/sc-280qbs
I Just weighed Saturday in prep for our trip out west this week. With my Reese Stediflex WDH - here are my weights from the CAT Scale:
Steer (Front) Axle - 2940
Drive (Rear) Axle - 4220
Trailer - 5740
Tongue Weight - 860 (13%)
My Gross Combined Weight is 12,900
I tow a Sunset Trail 270bh with an overall length of 31'11" and a GVWR of 7600lbs with my 2017 EL Limited with HD towing. I went on the scale last year and the trailer axles weighted 6600lbs. I thought my tongue were was arround 850-900lbs max (13%). I bought a trailer tongue scale and found out that my tongue weight was a bit over 1000lbs loaded for camping wihtout fresh water in the tank.
I have an Equalizer WDH with 1000lbs bars and even tough I can bring the front at the unhook height there noticeable squat in the back. I'm using the max number of washers (8) in the head. The bars are just not strong enough. You want the bars parra
The ride is good with very minimal sway in big crosswind, no white knuckles, just the back bouncing a little here and there.
If I were to do it again, I will buy the 1200lbs bars. The 624lbs tongue weight in the brochure wasn't really accurate...
In short, a 32ft overall travel trailer is ok if setup correctly.