Regarding the towing capacities and frame inadequacies of motorhomes:
You also need to watch the distance between the rear axles and the rear
of the vehicle (overhang). If the distance between the two is too great,
and you tow too great a load, you can pull down/warp the back end. We
did this with our first RV, the little 20' Class C Coachmen some of you
have seen. Brad had to jack up and reweld the frame, and beef up the hitch.
For our 27' Winnebago, we added a beefier bolt-on hitch because the
existing one was inadequate. And we had the frame and hitch beefed up on
our Airstream before we did much with it, for the same reason. The
factories only put measly little frame extenders for the hitches in all
three cases. We could tow a house now, with the Airstream.
Keep Triumphing,
Susan :)
Glenn Franco wrote:
> Be careful with that!
> I pulled a 20' haulmark enclosed trailer with a 28' class C Jayco and
> the cheezy bumper fell off.
> That was the only crossmember they used to keep the frame extensions
> from twisting.
> If you do have to tow one leave the load equalizing stuff at home.
> I sold the trailer and bought an open (lighter weight) to tow behind
> my 35' Bounder and have had no problems.
> Most of the motor home manufacturers only scab on some channel to
> extend the length of the motor home.
> Depends on the Motor Home chassis
>
> Glenn Franco
>
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