5th wheel bucking question

5th wheel bucking question

09-14-2006, 01:51 AM

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5th wheel bucking question

My brother has a problem towing his 30' Lorado (keystone?) 5er behind his short bed ford. He was complaining about his back hurting, the camper is always "bucking". So we took it out behind my dodge. I have had 3 different 5ers and none of them have done this, the camper seems to be jurking the truck forward and back while towing it. ITs got to be the front of the camper bucking up and down. My feeling are the toung weight is to low. Next we got to get it on a scale, he is thinking of putting a bunch of bags of concrete into the front to see what the weight does. yes its level on both trucks while towing.

any ideas?

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