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Old 08-14-2007, 06:50 PM   #1
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Adjusting Reese Dual Cam Settings

OK gang here is my question:

This is my first year with the Reese dual cam. Once a year I tow about a 15-mile distance on I-80 in Central PA to attend a family reunion. I fill up with fresh water at Parker Dam State Park, then head onto I-80 with water in the rear tank.

So, I know my tongue weight will be light and change the geometry of the weight on my TV. I think I should go from five links hanging to four.

My idea is that the weight on the tongue will be lighter because of all the fresh water, so therefore I need to transfer less weight onto the truck right?

I have towed the trailer with water before, but not on I-80 with trucks screaming by.....
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Old 08-15-2007, 05:26 AM   #2
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Hi Mark,

The tongue weight should between 10% and 15% of loaded weight.
Having a little heavier tongue weight (closer to 15% of loaded weight) aids in towing stability. However you don’t want to get it too heavy so that it's over the 15% limit.

JohnB is our local expert on the Reese DC hitch.

Read John’s responses in these 2 posts, they may help.
Reese Dual Cam Weight Distribution Bars and T-2499
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And here's a WD Setp post on the Open Roads Forum

Hope this helps
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Did you get what you needed? Have been busy lately and not a lot of time to help respond.

To do this right, you really need to know your TT tongue weight per TT GVW. The DC is a very fine WD hitch with sway control, but it needs good tongue weight to make it work and the WD on the truck has to be set up properly along with the DC.

Not knowing what the water weight is doing to tongue weight is hard to tell if moving a link is good enough.

Reasoning is this. Say right now with no water you are at 12% tongue. All works OK. Then you fill fresh water located behind the rear axles. If this drops you into 11 or 9% tongue the TT may become unstable given the right conditions.

I’m not trying to scare you here, just help give a friendly heads up on what to look for. Unless you know your weights and axle loads on the TV, changing links might not be enough to keep the rig stable.

Glad to help more if needed. Have you even been to the truck scales lately?

Hope this helps

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Thanks I took the advice and did not change the links---for a ten mile ride.

I am done camping for the year unfortunately, so the weigh in will have to be next year .
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