These can't be REAL?!

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Originally Posted by gone fission

Yeah 2" ball is most common nowadays. And don't forget about tongue weight on your vehicle. Some trailers you can unbolt and move the axle to adjust tongue weight. Most salvage yards will have a scale if ya wanna weigh the whole rig.

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How would I go by finding out how much tongue weight it can withstand? All is reads is towing capacity 1,000 lbs.

2013 Chevy Impala

It has the holes already made into the frame for the tow package too. All I have to do is buy the trailer and have someone install it.

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Originally Posted by "G"

This boat is a 1436....that means 14 ft. long and 36 in. across the bottom. Very narrow....going to be tippy. https://bham.craigslist.org/boa/5591654208.html

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Thank you, Sir. Didn't know this! Ok, so I'm looking for a 1448?

If you had my car, show me a pic of a boat you think would be best. I am looking into all of this now, so that I don't waste a bunch of time looking next Feb.

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Originally Posted by Mamba334

How would I go by finding out how much tongue weight it can withstand? All is reads is towing capacity 1,000 lbs.

2013 Chevy Impala

It has the holes already made into the frame for the tow package too. All I have to do is buy the trailer and have someone install it.

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Your tongue weight should be no more than 150. Good way to judge is can you grab tongue and lift with out straining. That car is not going to like much weight at all on the tongue.

According to the towing package for the car on etrailer's website, it has a max of 300 lbs tongue weight.

https://www.uhaul.com/MovingSupplies...eId=46222&ship

https://www.etrailer.com/hitch-2013_...let_Impala.htm

Well, ok, I am reading the tongue weight is 10% of the max towing capacity? So that would be 100 lbs? Then I read comments of I should be fine pulling a 14 ft jon boat no issues. I'm so confused ...

Do I NEED to install an external trans cooler??

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Originally Posted by Mamba334

Do I NEED to install an external trans cooler??

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If I was going to haul it very far or very often, at highway speeds or on highways with long/steep hills .... yeah, I probably would.

I did just that, on a previous V6 Blazer ... pulling a 15.5' fiberglass boat w/70hp Yammy. My Tundra has "tow pkg" built in, and the "cooler" is part of the setup. And that's on a 4.7L V8 motor.

I'll have my mechanic look at it for me when he installs my trailer hitch for me. I just really didn't want to waste my money here on installing a trailer hitch for it, if I can't safely do this. Now I'm being told a max tongue weight is 100 lbs? I don't know what all this is honestly. So now I need to look the boat up in question that I am buying to see it's weight, plus the trailer's weight that it comes with?