trailer aero

[skyking]

I disagree. Folks need a little training, and I stand by my statement. Without it they are an accident looking for a location. No WDH will save them from a lack of experience.

[slowmover]

"Training" was already stated. But there is no substitute for best equipment (which also means hitch rigging set up according to formula). Anyone, novice or pro, is better off with such in any and all cases.

[skyking]

I did not find training stated.
Not all of us were born backing a trailer and hauling a load, as did you and I.
That is my main emphasis. All the fancy equipment on the most modern trailer is worthless with out that. IF you are within your hitch requirements of the tow vehicle, and have a properly loaded trailer the WDH is a great convenience but not a requirement for safe operation.
Note the hitch requirement statement. Most rigs come with a standard class 3 with 500 tongue/5000 maximum trailer weight WITHOUT WDH.
So following your class 3 standard hitch requirements, you will have a WDH with a typical travel or car trailer.

[slowmover]

" . . Same for a tow rig. The dynamics need to be experienced to find out how little one can actually do (in accident avoidance) to drive home the need for certain principles to apply first."

[trooper Tdiesel]

well i managed to get home.

ive had many exciting things happen on this trip.

like oh little things like a fan belt, water in fuel warning, WVO short fall, severe side winds and head winds felt like gust to around 70, 105F heat with very high humidity (no A\C), axil shaft sliding out. you know little stuff like that....



ive found one of the best safety devices is your hazard lights.
just slow to 40/45 and go with the hazard lights



Planetisuzoo.com • View topic - Planet member broken down & stranded

IsuzuPup.com • View topic - daves grand adventure, June 2012

[slowmover]

Read the links . . quite an adventure. Bet you won't be moving to the South, willya?

[trooper Tdiesel]

No way!!!!

Ill take damp dark and rainy over that any day.....

[euromodder]

Seems like you two were a good match, one mad enough to take on this kind of trip, and the other mad enough to come to the rescue of a stranded stranger he had never met, hundreds of miles away.

Nice one


What made the rear axle fail ?

[trooper Tdiesel]

what made if fail is rather odd, and i dont under stand it totaly.


i know i found the vent tube completely plugged, mix that with the added stress of towing the high temps and a tale pipe leaking a good 20% around the axil that made the oil seals fail on the axils.
the oil just takes the path of least Resistance.


but how that made the axil shaft come out is very odd.
the only thing i can come up with is, the extra high temps let the locking nut get loose, thats the only way for it to come out is for the locking nut to come loose.

or just by random chance it just happened then.

[skyking]

glad you made it back! Still reading the adventures......