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Towing and Coil Issue/Question

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wxerman

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Hello All,

Been monitoring this site about 5 months learning a lot of things. I have the 1500 Avalanche, no 66 or 71, with the trailering package (or lack of). I recently bought an open car hauler for my corvette to make a cross country move. Trailer weighs 1760 and car weighs about 3200. When I put the trailer on my truck w/out the car, the back of my truck sinks low. I figure heavy tongue weight. Loading the car forward it sinks and almost looks like the car will pop a wheely. Move the car back and off course it lessens the rear sinking. My worry is, once I load about another 500 pounds of junk in the bed it will sink even further. I will still be well under my vehicle and trailer weight but I read where you can add some kind of air bag to stiffin the rear coil. I am going to go have the tongue weight measured in a few days so I know exactly where to place the car on the trailer. Any other suggestion. Am I trying to pull to much. I am right at 5100 well under the gross rating for a trailer. Thanks for the help. By the way, the truck weighed 5170# with a quarter tank of gas, no bed cover, rubber mat, or spare tire.

Jim Kay
 
try a load distributing hitch. This will lessen the load on the rear. Also the Z66 had auto leveling shocks that level out the rear after its loaded and there were a pair for sale in the for sale section.
 
in addition to the load distribut hitch you could check into air bags for in the coils I am going to be putting the Airlift 1000 kit on my Av in a few weeks.
 
I was looking at the airlift bags myself, JC Whitney has them for the AV for $69. Sound about right? Let us know how u make out with them....
 
I got my kit from ThunderRacing and installed it about a week ago. Actually had a truck place do it along with nerf bars, mud flaps and a bug deflector. Didn't take the guy very long. He was impressed with it. Aired mine up to 30 PSI and when I dropped my trailer on it, the truck only sank a little. Mind you, that was with 1100 pounds of junk already in the bed of the truck. Just drove 500 miles with car, trailer (open), and truck loaded. the Scale weight was 11, 800. I drove a relatively flat route on the interstate. I was impressed and encounted no problems. Kept the truck in drive most of the time and on cruise control ON and the trailer/hauler button pushed. I still have about 2000 miles to go but so far so good. I will figure out my gas mileage tonight.

JKay
 
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