Homemade VW car dolly - What is a good tongue weight?

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

I was talking to an engineer friend of mine about this.  He said that you will 
need at least 100 lbs of tongue weight on the rear of the tow vehicle.  
Otherwise, if there is too much weight towards the rear of the towed car, it 
will fishtail at speed...  

HTH
-- 
Regards,
David Utley
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Quoting Drew Teague <roccnroll@hotmail.com>:

> Every tow dolly that I have ever used is configured in this way:
> 
> The platforms where the wheels come to rest on the dolly, where they are 
> strapped down, are braced rigidly with one another.  This whole assembly, 
> however, is mounted on a pivot point in between the two front wheels in the 
> center, to the frame of the dolly.  The front wheels will never turn at the 
> car's steering points.  They turn, rather as one unit on the pivot point of 
> the platform they are mounted on.  The rear wheels simply follow no matter 
> what.  The tongue weight could be adjusted to nearly anything you want based
> 
> on where this pivot point is located above the wheels of the dolly.  The 
> farther it is in front of the wheels of the dolly, the greater the tongue 
> weight.
> 
> Sufficiently wordy, as always...  heheh
> 
> **Drew Teague**
> Harrisburg, PA
> 
> '84 8v Rocco --  "Bruise"
> '85 BMW 318i
> 
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