Thursday, February 23, 2006

Putting on the tow bar brackets

Today I put on the Roadmaster tow bar brackets that came in yesterday. There are 3 main bars. Two of them attach to the frame then attach to a cross bar (receiver brace) that connects the two bars from the frame.

It is actually a pretty easy job to do but I ran into problems getting one bar attached to the frame and had to make some adjustments. I was instructed to install everything loose and I did. It just wasn't loose enough. There has to be enough play to pull the bars so that the holes line up. I did not torque them down yet because I still have some minor adjusting to do so that the tow bar will slip onto the plates. We have a Roadmaster 5000 Stowmaster towbar that we are going to use. The owner of our Jamboree gave it to us (we paid to ship it to AZ from Oregon).

I will have to get some locks because I heard that some people (kids probably) think that it is great fun to pull the pins on the tow bars.

Now we have to get a braking system. I am researching that pretty thoroughly because they are expensive.

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