What do you TOW with your Tundra?

My typical summer toy that I tow with the Tundra from car show to car show.

 

Bought Tacoma Feb 8 2016. Bought trailer April 2016. Towed i think 4 times last summer. Did pretty good for trailer being at max capacity of tacoma. But were planning on doing more camping this summer. So we traded the Tacoma for the tundra last Saturday.

 

Good lookin rig. Bet it handles that TT lots better. Tacoma looks totally loaded down with that thing!

 

Was a little until I did helper springs and redid the hitch.

 

The honest reason is cost. I cant justify the expense of a custom enclosed trailer. I am particular about what I wanted and because of the design of the Vector, you have to do some very custom things to an enclosed trailer to make her fit. The long lead in creates a problem with loading ramps, so you have to do an extended door $ price goes up. You have to have a beaver tail built in to the trailer, option 2 price goes up. You can not fit it between wheel wells so you have to have ramps over wheel wells option 3 price goes up, You now sit higher in the trailer so you can no longer swing the doors open, so you have to raise the trailer height by 18" to clear the door, option 4 price goes up. Because the car is so wide and you now are able to open the door, but you are only two inches from the walls of the trailer you cant get out of the car, option 5 road side door, price goes up. Throw in cabinets, lighting so you can see well enough at night to load and unload, along with cabinets, a generator and a couple of other odds and ends and a 32' Pace American Shadow GT trailer quickly becomes a $55000 investment to have sitting around 99% of the time as I typically do 3 car shows a summer. As it was the aluminum open trailer I have was completely custom built just for the Vector and may not be considered completely road legal due to its extreme width it set me back $14000 20 years ago. I don't know if there are any companies that would tackle that job again. The company that built it for me now just builds canned trailers. They no longer do the extreme custom work that they did back then. So I am happy to have it. I can single handedly load and unload the car at shows and its a dream to haul with.

So that is the long enclosed trailer saga, or the lack there of.

 

That's an awesome looking trailer. What are the specs? I want to buy one, and need some ideas on what I should get.

 

I like this unit. Its a 2016 Heartland Torque 27T toy hauler.
Onan gen set
2 A/Cs
27 ft
GVWR 10,000 lbs
King bed
Fuel station
LED lighting
Wired for solar
Power awning
Etc.

I am running Firestone air bags, with no toys in the back there is a lot of tongue weight. With the air bags and WDH the Tunny tows it like a champ

 

How soon are those going under the Tundra? Going with 52" or 66" tires on them?

 

Shit tons of rock and whatnot. I have a landscaping company and am constantly hauling materials for installations, avg probably 6-7k lbs almost on a daily basis, occasionally more.

 

56" on a build that my buddy and I are working on. 71 IH Truck. Why? Cause why not.

 

After I buy mine, it will be hauling this package except the box blade and shredder will be replaced by the 60" mower deck and the backhoe option. Shouldn't be a problem for the 5.7, right?

 

Polaris Pro Rmk 800

 

No problem at all!

 

Pulled a 33' Passport. No problem towing, but had fits with swaying on the freeway. Also, maxed out on cargo weight for the truck. Hope you've had better luck!

 

Awesome! What model is your Deere? I'm going with the aluminum trailer instead to save some weight. I'm considering the 1025R TLB so I need to understand the difference between the 3025 and 1025...

 

How do you go about hooking up your trailer? Sequence with the WDH and Airbags?
I am looking to add the airbags and need to know which comes first.
Thanks

 

It's actually my parents, I was using it to grade my yard and do some back fill work while I was building my house. It's a 3320. Hydrostatic drive, power steering and like air ride seat, its awesome! When funds begin shaping up again since the build, I will be looking for one of my own.

If I were you, I would spring for the 3025. Not sure what your purpose for it would be but having the extra power over the 1025 would be nice.

 

Small travel trailer. 4500 lbs.

 

Do em both at the same time

 

Please elaborate?
I would need to fill up airbags and then tune my WDH or hook up WDH and then add air. If I add air after I would minimize the WDH effectiveness, correct?
This would put a lot more pressure on the front wheels?
Just trying o make sure money is well spent on the airbags.

Thanks for the assistance.

 

A toy hauler....before I added a 3/1 lift and 33.5" tires.

 

Maybe for a 3/4 ton domestic truck the above is true but for the tundra this advice is wrong and I am speaking from experience.
hook up with WDH then add air to the bags to get the ride height you want. WDH only transfers SOME of the weight to the front wheels. even with my WDH properly set up I still had massive sag in the rear. You need both if you are near the tundra max capacity. IMO every thing on the tundra is 3/4 ton duty (brakes, axles, frame, rear end, bearings, etc.) but just like the Tacoma the rear springs are the weak link.

 

I have leaf springs my camper is 5300lbs with WDH I still get some sagging.. Even when í towed my rpod 3200lbs no WDH it was sagging.. My truck is only a month old 1200 miles

 

My small travel trailer is only 4500 lbs, about 600 lbs tongue weight. I feel it back there when I tow. I have WDH and it does not get all the weight evenly split front/rear. I think some of this is due to setup (still adjusting it) and some of it is limitation of the Tundra and the WDH hitch itself. Agree that if you are at or close or over the max, then the WDH can only help so much. Airbags may help, but I don't know if it actually helps or if it makes it look better. Kinda like lipstick on a pig.

 

The bacon factory have nothing to do with this..lets not bring it in