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Well the family and I are looking to take a camping trip for a few days in August so I was looking at renting a travel trailer from a nearby business, they have decent prices. The trailer I'm looking to rent is a 17ft Cascade weighing 4500lbs with a 1200lb tongue weight. Right now I'm 100% stock. Nothing in the trans, no extra power in the motor, this should be no problem right? I only have the stock hitch and it say's 1000 is max for tongue or am I reading that wrong?

 

Some concerns...

 

- running 305's so max psi is 40ish psi

- weak stock trans, although shouldn't be any major climbs to worry about, but some decent hills n such.

- tongue weight being higher then rated on my hitch?

 

Would it hurt to try and throw an edge ez or quad xzt for towing on stock trans?

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  • Mopar1973Man
    Mopar1973Man

    That rather disturbing with load range D's with that kind of weight and only 50 PSI limit. If I'm not mistake typically load range D's is 65 PSI and Load Range C's are 50 PSI. Double check your inform

  • AH64ID
    AH64ID

    1200lbs of tongue weight seems VERY, VERY, VERY high for a 4500lbs trailer. That's 26% tongue weight which is high even for a 4500lb 5th wheel.    A 4500lb trailer should have no more than 6

  • TFaoro
    TFaoro

    It's probably best you tow with stock power if your trans is stock! Think of it as a favor

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Tongue weight should be 10-15% on bumper pull trailers. 13-15% is fairly normal for travel trailers and the closer they are to 15% the better they tow. 

 

 

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    3 hours ago, AH64ID said:

    Tongue weight should be 10-15% on bumper pull trailers. 13-15% is fairly normal for travel trailers and the closer they are to 15% the better they tow. 

     

     

     

    Thanks for that! Im planning on going by and talking to them sometime this week so I'll see what they say!

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