Thanks for your reply Ron,
I was coming around to the same conclusion. In studying my EQ it seems that the weight is centered around the ball and that it should be added to the tongue weight.
Thomas and Laura Malenich
1988 Suburban 1500, 4WD
Scotty 16 1/2' , smaller and loving it
2 kids and 3 dogs
Very interesting forum I have half the solution, use a SenZBar that would tell you what was happening at the tongue, I got one, but I dont use a weight distributing setup