Trailer weight distribution

By design nature the CT's are hitch heavy when designed dry... then comes the tool boxes and stone deflectors and whatever else and most of this stuff loads the hitch weight even more.. In short I don't think there will be any noticable effect of moving the wheel to the rear...

I would be looking at making the wheel carrier mounted to the trailer chasis or something though rather than the tailgate!!

Cheers

The old rule of thumb still applies , 10% of total all up weight of trailer should be your ball/ hitch weight , ergo moving or adding an extra wheel/tire weight to the rear of most c/trailers will be beneficial to handling rather than detrimental as most trailers are hitch weight heavy.

I've just come home from a 4,000km trip around the red centre with a camper-trailer. I carried two spares, one upright on the towbar in front of the toolbox, and one inside at the rear of the camper up against the tailgate in a similar position to where you would hang your 2nd spare. The overall load was distributed to give approx 10% towball weight. Handling was excellent and I don't see any reason why yours shouldn't be the same.
cheers
T.R.

A lot o f people make this sound difficult, I don't think it is.

My trailer follows like a faithful puppy. It does this at any speed and in any conditions. If you promise not to tell I will admit to 160km/h on the balck top and it has also been on some fire trails in the mountains crawling over big sandstone steps at less than walking pace.

When fully loaded I can just lift the coupling by hand. I guess it would be about 50kg to 80kg.

I suggest you load your trailer put your extra spare where you want it and see how heavy it is. If it is too light move the spare forward. until it is right.

It will soon let you know if the draw bar weight is too light.

Duncs

Grey
I think you will find that they were talking about Caravans when they say keep the weight over the axle, which will effectively stop the chassis from bending in the middle. I do not think that you will have that problem with a trailer, I do agree that you should weld the carrier to the chassis not the door.

eerfree

Hi. On my old camper I had the spare on the drawbar along with 4 jerry cans
and when I got an extra spare I put that on top of the other one. To try and even
it up I would load 2/3 20lt bottles of water near the back of the camper also had the battery at the back. Did many thousands of km like this with no trouble.
Brian