VANAGON archives -- September 2002, week 3 (#213)

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:33:12 +0100 Reply-To: stephen de la salle <sdelasal@PEOPLEPC.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: stephen de la salle <sdelasal@PEOPLEPC.COM> Subject: Re: Towing A 2WD Westy Comments: To: JOE65@AOL.COM

I towed a westy from Moline to Detroit a couple of years back with an Ford Explorer towing a u-haul tow dolly. To book, I had to say that the Explorer was a V8 version and not V6 - something to do with u-haul weight/power combinations which I could not get to the bottom of so just 'played the game' - The guy I picked the tow dolly up from couldn't care less as it turned out but the guys on the reservation line seemed particular on details.

I did the ~400 mile journey at 45MPH through the long long long night - It worked out fine. I rigged the rear light of the van being towed into the tow trailer lights and no probs. Have to be careful about how you attach van to dolly - I seem to recall a couple of safety chains. As I remember, the tow dolly was in pretty poor shape - especially the lighting so that had to be fixed.

STeve

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