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Post by humpyboy on Jul 31, 2011 21:47:49 GMT 10
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Post by Roehm3108 on Aug 2, 2011 12:53:22 GMT 10
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Post by overlanda on Aug 2, 2011 19:05:38 GMT 10
Hi Dave
If You intend to buy a small truck for towing a caravan around make sure that you fit a floating or sprung tow bar to the truck as the stiff rear end will kill whatever you are towing , like broken chassis, cupboards coming of walls, cracks every where in the walls floor and the list goes on . We repaired the chassis on a 2009 23' Airsteam in May just gone due to people not listening to people that know and they spend a lot of money to fix the problems. and unfortunately it will never be the same.
Regards Gerald
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Post by cruisindoug on Aug 2, 2011 19:54:07 GMT 10
I can vouch for how rough a truck is towing a van Dave, by the time we got back from Crows Nest the fridge had been bounced over the battens, the table had collapsed, and their was sh%t everywhere!
And I was sitting beside him all the way, he wasn't a cowboy at all in fact it was a very smooth drive home from in the cab. Checked the poor old girl out in the mirror a couple of times and there was a lot of flexing going on in the chassis!
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Post by overlanda on Aug 2, 2011 21:53:32 GMT 10
Hi Dave
A sprung or floating tow bar is a tow bar which can move independly to the truck chassis in this case it can be mounted on a spring or on a airbag set up or on a duratorque set up (a tow tongue mounted in rubber similar as the Alko rubber suspension for a caravan or trailer set up)
On the last air bag set up it was around $ 3500.00 fitted . All tow bars need a engineers certificate (so they say)this does not help with the cost.
If you come across some show or circus people they will more than likely have a truck with a set up so you can see what i mean, or you could maybe look on Google.
Regards Gerald
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