Jayflight - Heavy Ball Weight

I will continue to follow this thread and the results of your investigations, rectifications and outcomes with interest.

BTW the LROC of Australia (NSW Branch) Inc. aka Land Rover Enthusiasts - NSW didn't have a trip to the Geehi area over Christmas/New Year, I think you must have us mixed up with some other mob. We will be doing our tour/s of the High Country during Autumn as we find it a much more pleasant time of the year to travel there.

If you are likely to be around there April/May drop me a PM and we could possibly have that campfire chat.

Ok - so you are different to the Sydney group who also call themselves the LROC of Aust - all so confusing.:(

Correct. However, the last time I looked at a map, Sydney was quite different to New South Wales. :o
The only thing that's confusing is that we are all Land Rover Tragics :wasntme:

Anyway we should drop this subject and get back on track with your original topic and concerns.

Hi Graeme
Just for you
you knock without thinking
I perhaps should have said weighing the draw bar weight at the jockey wheel would show a difference to the weight at the coupling.
the jockey wheel is about 450 mm from the coupling
if you weigh the weight at the jockey wheel
it will be 10/15% greater than at the coupling
(I have a Kimberley Kamper, adding the extention to the tow bar reduced the tow ball weight)
I had to adjust my load because my Disco 1 in 1998 was rated at 250 kgs on the ball.
I have a sticker to prove it.
it has been changed, I do not know if it was done by Land Rover or some other body.
It is now 150 kgs
perhaps some one out there may know when and why.
cheers
Ian

If your trying to weigh something heavier than your scales can read, try adding a piece of timber and a brick. Put the brick on the ground a little bit away from the scales and lay the piece of timber across the top of the scales and the brick. On the timber find the halfway point between the scales and the brick and that's where you put the load to be weighed. The scales should read (about ;)) half of the total weight because the brick's copping the other half.

Cheers,
Anthony.

We have our own weighbridge and weigh a lot of vans for down weight and gross weight. It is a common problem and I think the van manufacturers have a lot to answer for. We would not weigh one van where the 10% limit is not exceeded and we have people moving gear in the van whilst it is still being weighed to attempt to bring weights into the envelope. Pretty hard to do.
I would suggest that anyone buying a van/camper do some weighing before they commit. Don;t believe what is on the plate as rarely are they right.
Lindsay.

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Originally Posted by back_in

Hi Graeme
Just for you
you knock without thinking
I perhaps should have said weighing the draw bar weight at the jockey wheel would show a difference to the weight at the coupling.
the jockey wheel is about 450 mm from the coupling
if you weigh the weight at the jockey wheel
it will be 10/15% greater than at the coupling
(I have a Kimberley Kamper, adding the extention to the tow bar reduced the tow ball weight)
I had to adjust my load because my Disco 1 in 1998 was rated at 250 kgs on the ball.
I have a sticker to prove it.
it has been changed, I do not know if it was done by Land Rover or some other body.
It is now 150 kgs
perhaps some one out there may know when and why.
cheers
Ian

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Our 96 tdi was rated to tow 4000kg but only 150 kg ball weight. It doesn't matter what the sticker states. You are restricted to what the vehicle manufacturer states.
150 kg did seem very low, don't know if it was changed by the 98 model.

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Originally Posted by garrycol

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It is a pity you did not go down to Geehi Flats with your club over the past few days where three of us from the Landrover Club of the ACT gate crashed (with approval) where we could have discussed the pros and cons of my van (did not have it with me) over a refreshing beverage.

Cheers

Garry

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Damn:mad: now I am homesick:dbcry:

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Originally Posted by back_in

Hi Graeme
Just for you
you knock without thinking
I perhaps should have said weighing the draw bar weight at the jockey wheel would show a difference to the weight at the coupling.

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Actually I was thinking of the difference in a van's weight when the van is attached to the vehicle but only the van's wheels are on the weightbridge and when the van sit on its jockey wheel and detached from the vehicle as being the ball weight (which is what I had already done with my van), regardless of where the jockey wheel is mounted on the van's drawbar. I suppose you were referring to weighing only the jockey wheel.