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Originally Posted by Jameson_
So far, seems like the f150 will be fine as long as the weight is distributed properly.
F250 would leave me with no worries at all but I’m being picky about options.
Can you explain porpoising to me?
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porpoising is when the trailer (and tow vehicle) rock back and forth, front to back, like a porpoise jumping out of the water. So when you go over a dip in the road, for example, the truck and trailer oscillate for a bit front to back. Does that help? I am not an expert but believe it is when you are perhaps overloaded or close, given the current suspension and weight distribution settings. You could stiffen things up and it will not do that any more, but to me it was a sign that I was reaching the limits. And weighing my truck loaded up and hooked up revealed that I was, in fact, reaching the limits.
I agree; I could have played around with things and kept the 150 (though my grandkids were going to be coming on a two-week trip and it would have been hard to hit weight targets adding two more bodies to the truck cab). My wife does not like to keep things in the camper when we travel so the trailer had some headroom with weight but the truck was at the limit or slightly over. And we could have ditched the very heavy Yeti coolers and such. So it is do-able with some forethought and planning, but we switched to the 3/4 ton and that was the right answer for us.
Note that we also had the Ford F150 platinum with all the (heavy) goodies, so our payload was about
1500 lbs. A lesser equipped version could easily add another 500 lbs to the payload. Note also that we had the 3.5EB and never wanted for power; just the payload.
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