Wheel Weights???

[Quarterpastgone]

This will sound slightly different to many. Does anyone have scale number for a Comanche, on a set of scales that tells you each wheel weight? I am trying to find out roughly what amount of weight is on the back two tires.

[Pete M]

are you looking for the curb weights at each corner?

[gogmorgo]

I haven’t had one on individual wheel scales. But a long time back I stopped at one of those roadside single-axle scales, and the numbers that stuck in my head are 700 and 1100 KG. (7-11 is easy to remember). Front heavy. It would’ve been me and some stuff in the truck, just the every day tools and recovery gear, but I can’t promise that for sure. There might have been some snow or something in the bed even... I just don’t remember. Mostly stock ‘91 4x4 automatic longbed. 
 

[Quarterpastgone]

Will all the virus stuff can’t get to my scales to check what each wheel weight  is. Pete yes that is what I am looking for.

[Eagle]

On 5/5/2020 at 12:30 AM, gogmorgo said:

I haven’t had one on individual wheel scales. But a long time back I stopped at one of those roadside single-axle scales, and the numbers that stuck in my head are 700 and 1100 KG. (7-11 is easy to remember). Front heavy. It would’ve been me and some stuff in the truck, just the every day tools and recovery gear, but I can’t promise that for sure. There might have been some snow or something in the bed even... I just don’t remember. Mostly stock ‘91 4x4 automatic longbed. 
 

 

I was going to guess about 60/40. I was closer than I expected.

[Pete M]

well, if it's roughly a 60/40 and 3200 pounds, that would be 960# per tire up front and 640# per tire in the rear

[gogmorgo]

For some more accurate numbers than my memory, I just rolled out to the local transfer station and weighed the truck.

1360kg total

770kg on the front axle.

That’s with 1/4-tank of gas, no driver, and a few odds and ends in the truck but not really anything heavy, maybe an extra 20lbs at most. 

Keep in mind this is pretty well the lightest spec truck, 2.5, ax5, 2wd, shortbed, rear bumper delete, bench seat (buckets are likely lighter?).

 

For those who can’t function in metric that translates to 3000lbs total, 1700lbs on the front axle, 56/44% F/R. Those numbers may look convenient but they’re rounded more precisely than the +/-10kg display on the scale. 

 

I don’t have accurate numbers, but pretty well every other option other than a d44 or a rear bumper (or filling the fuel tank) is going to add more weight to the front than the rear. A long bed pushes that weight even further forward.