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byegorge
Posted 2017-01-01 7:10 PM (#4295)
Subject: Coach Weight and Balance


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Location: Olympia, Washington

This thread was started to create a database to answer coach weight and balance questions. Coach gross weight is good for tonnage but four individual corner weights is best for answering balance questions. Coach configuration is important when it varies from the factory set up. Something as simple as extra batteries and their placement in the coach will be important for making accurate comparisons. Any significant weight changes should be noted. 

Coach set up for weighing: the fresh water tank full, fuel tank full, gray water tank empty, black water tank empty, all passengers/drivers weights in position and all cargo loaded. In other words all loaded up and ready to go.

Gross weight, front axle, rear axle, left front, right front, left rear, right rear. Don't worry about not having all the numbers anything will help, if you have a number post it. I still have to weigh 506 myself I don't know what my numbers are at all.

 

 

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BigRabbitMan
Posted 2017-02-26 4:09 PM (#4386 - in reply to #4295)
Subject: Re: Coach Weight and Balance



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Location: Cottage Grove, OR
I recently found an Oregon state scale closed (no trucks) and the scale was turned on as is normal in Oregon.

My weights for coach 1046 are as follows:

Gross weight: 15,950
Left side: 7,950 Right side: 8,000

front axle: 5,100
left:2,650 right: 2450

rear axle: 10,850
left: 5,250 right: 5600


My fresh water wasn't completely full but that is how I run it. Fuel was full and black tank empty, but some in gray tank.

This coach has a Duramax turbo diesel and an Allison 6 spd transmission. Both of those add weight.
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2017-07-15 4:29 PM (#4754 - in reply to #4295)
Subject: Re: Coach Weight and Balance


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Location: Oceanside, CA
I finally got to a scale today.
Gross Weight: 15200lbs
Left Side: 7700lbs
Right Side: 7500lbs

Front Axle: 5060lbs
F/Left: 2580lbs
F/Right: 2480lbs

Rear Axle: 10140lbs
R/Left: 5120lbs
R/Right: 5020lbs

Fuel Tank Full
Water Tank maybe 5 gallons
Gray and Black Empty

Pretty happy with that...I had targeted 15,000lbs when I started the build, moving the using a lighter generator and moving it forward as well as the house batteries and spare tire all the way up front showed in the axle weights.
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