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Submitted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 11:37

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Article Overview - Preparing a Vehicle for Towing
Everyone who intends to tow a caravan, or indeed any sort of trailer, needs to be aware that various tow vehicle and trailer combinations can behave in slightly different ways and certainly different from just driving the tow vehicle itself. View Full Article...
I can understand the benefits of stabilisers, but how do they affect towing through causeways? (the steeper ones)
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AnswerID: 367628   Submitted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 16:53

Member - Graham H (QLD) replied:

As long as you have them adjusted correctly and go slow you shouldnt have any trouble.
5-6 links are good any less are too short cos if you make a sharp turn doesnt leave enough slack for the bar to move back on the inner side and can snap a bar.
Saw a guy nearly do it yesterday when he had a rig nearly jacknifed and the bar was starting to bend.

Any more and they hang down too much,and dont just pull your jockey wheel up TAKE IT OUT. Friend didnt and destroyed aTrailmate jack on the Plenty highway last week on a big corrugation.
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