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Old 03-31-2017, 04:41 PM   #1
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Weight by wheel...Wow.

I loaded up my Bay Star Sport 2702 with full fresh water, gas and LP tanks and took it to my local scale. With everything except food in the fridge and clothes in the drawers I was amazed to find the difference between the left and right front tires is 100 pounds. Left and right rear wheels are within 160 pounds. That's quite an engineering accomplishment.
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I need to take mine to the scales, since I have added so much more weight.Thanks for the info.
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That's really good. I am almost afraid to weigh ours. We go full time June 1st, once everything is loaded I intend to to do so. From the perspective of placing appropriate weights in the correct locations I think we are balanced with weight but I don't know about total weight on the axles or four corners.

Once weighed, my wife may have to ditch a couple of hundred pairs of shoes and I might have to get rid of bunch of books....
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That's really good. I am almost afraid to weigh ours. We go full time June 1st, once everything is loaded I intend to to do so. From the perspective of placing appropriate weights in the correct locations I think we are balanced with weight but I don't know about total weight on the axles or four corners.

Once weighed, my wife may have to ditch a couple of hundred pairs of shoes and I might have to get rid of bunch of books....
Good luck with the shoe thing, I have tried.
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That's really good. I am almost afraid to weigh ours. We go full time June 1st, once everything is loaded I intend to to do so. From the perspective of placing appropriate weights in the correct locations I think we are balanced with weight but I don't know about total weight on the axles or four corners.

Once weighed, my wife may have to ditch a couple of hundred pairs of shoes and I might have to get rid of bunch of books....
Or you and the wife could just watch the old classic movie "The Long, Long Trailer." Lucille Ball was a genius at balancing her rock collection in the trailer. At least until they tried to pull it over the Rockies!!!
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Or you and the wife could just watch the old classic movie "The Long, Long Trailer." Lucille Ball was a genius at balancing her rock collection in the trailer. At least until they tried to pull it over the Rockies!!!
I've seen it several times in my years and it is still a classic. Wow, I guess my books will have to go. The shoes never will.
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As built at the factory, my fronts were 50lbs different, and the rears were 150lbs. Don't know about now, not sure I care that much. Nothing I could do about it anyway.
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