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gumby79 · 02-17-2018, 03:17 PM

If the hitching U-joint is mounted High Enough the pendulum effect will make it always want be belly down due to center of gravity.
The only downside to this is as the car pitches side to side it will force the tire to scrub left and right the distance based on the separation of the U joint and the tire. This is really insignificant as far as fuel economy goes ,as usually a driver is going under 10 mph when these type of terrain situations are encountered.

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