Selecting Properly Tuned Weight Distribution System for Travel Trailer Towed by 2014 Silverado 1500  

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Selecting a weight distribution/sway control system for your trailer requires you to measure your actual fully-loaded trailer tongue weight with all gear, supplies and equipment loaded exactly as it will be when you are on the road. Trailer dry hitch weight is not enough to select the correct system. Also, you need to add to the trailer's measured tongue weight the weight of anything in the truck bed that sits on or behind the rear axle, let's say a fully-loaded cooler, generator, etc. Once you know this total effective tongue weight you can choose a system. The linked articles will give you several methods for measuring tongue weight and lots of background on weight distribution/sway control systems.

You can use the link provided to view our main page for all available weight distribution products. You can use the filters on the page to select systems with or without built-in sway control. Note that the type of brakes on your trailer - surge or electric - will have a bearing on the system that is right for you. The filters will enable you to narrow the systems displayed based on your application.

If you want a system for 900-lb tongue weight that offers built-in sway control you might consider for example the Blue Ox SwayPro # BXW1000 that works with both surge and electric brakes. Its brackets clamp on (no drilling required) 29-inches back from the hitch ball. You'll need only add a hitch ball, either # A-90 for a 2-inch or # 19286 for a 2-5/16-inch size.

expert reply by: Adam R

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