Re: Too Much Tongue Weight
Well, hopefully someone with more expertise will pipe in. However - I've messed with tongue wt. and will give you my limited experience. Tongue wt. is fairly easy to adjust - you just move the winch post forward or rearward to get the boat to sit where you want it. In some cases, you might actually need to move the axel (I once had an inboard V8 boat setting on a trailer that, for what I could tell, was set up for an outboard rig. I had to move the axles quite a bit forward to make the tongue wt. reasonable. This is more difficult, but not technically difficult, assuming no problems loosening bolts).<br /><br />So the point is, give it a try and see what happens. Take care with your highway test - ease into it in case the handling is squirrly. Also, make sure your boat is "fully loaded" with fuel and gear when you do this. Also, if need be, you can adjust the location of any heavy gear to fine tune the ride sometimes.<br /><br />If you actually want to measure the tongue wt., there's techniques for doing at a weigh station and also ways to do it using a bathroom scale. But within reasonable limits, what you're looking for is a tongue wt. that your vehicle can handle and that tracks nice on the road, so that could be your criterion as well.
