What sort of weight do these things add to the ball must be a fair whack as it can't be distributed to wheels or do folk add another box on the back as counter weight ????
Be easy to add 100kgs without even trying.
A counterweight of the back of the van to compensate for an overloaded drawbar can be more a recipe for disaster as doing nothing.
With our van, we deleted the slide-out lounge from the build. The slide-out was in front of the wheels and weighed somewhere around 150kg. Apply that info to a van designed to have that 150kg slide-out, and when removed the geniuses at Jayco don't do another single modification to compensate for that. That left us with a ridiculous (and imho dangerous) factory tbm of 140kg on a 3.2t van. Jayco if nothing are predictably incompetent with this kind of stuff, so we took the punt on that fact and roll on. Add an extended drawbar, add the dangerously insufficient tbm and then our planned large took box full of permanent goodies .... and bing bang boom fully stocked box and a tbm of 280kg, thanks Jayco for your wise counsel.
The box itself is 2.5mm so isn't too heavy, maybe 20-25kg. But the box in our case is huge and can hold a lot of stuff. Our box isnt quite full either, and with van loaded for travelling our tbm has blown out from the plated 140kg tbm by 140kg to 280kg which is our case is a great outcome. But would be a $hit outcome if you were adding from a proper tbm to start with.
Be like eating donuts don’t notice till you try your suit on
Birthday suit ??? One size fits all, eat as many damn donuts as you like. I have photos of mine, and you'll like the cut
