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13/5/2012 at 8:43pm
Location: Lanarkshire
Outfit: Compass Lynx 340 2
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Hi climo, After reading a similar post on here some time back, that you are unable to test nose weight on a slopping drive, Curiosity got the better of me and I put that theory to the test. I have a slopping driveway, and I have tested the nose weight by raising the van up by the jockey wheel until van sitting level, used long length of wood from the centre of van wheel to the van hitch, put spirit level on top of wood,( and used the under side of the wood as new artificial ground level), I used packing to build up the height to the artificial ground level, raised van slightly to take gauge, placed the gauge under the hitch, lowered van back to level, checked gauge no load, then lowered van and raised jockey wheel, took nose weight reading, the next time I was out with van I took a nose weight reading on level ground, the difference in the two readings was under a kilo. (Incidentally the hitch height from ground level was almost exactly the height of tow ball on car at start of test).
PS: if you try this let us know your findings.
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