Towbar distributors around kingaroy or Maryborough

Al

Your not just a pretty face. LOl

There is an engineering firm just up the road from where I am staying in Murgon.

I'll go and have a chat with them. It may be the way to go as it is bolted on.

Boo Boo, if you want a good result it may be best to leave my facade out of the equation! LOL
Guess you noticed I changed my forum name but can't do much about the face. However, Roz seems to still appreciate it!

Yep I thought it was Allan/Alllan, I'll let you know what happens this afternoon after I've seen the engineers.

Well that was a waste of time.

The engineering shop did not want to know about it. They were worried that if they did the job and something went wrong in three yrs it would come back on them.

So,,, I rang the towbar place in Kingaroy. After explaining the situation he said I would only get a standard tongue if I bought a towbar.

He then suggested that I go to an engineering place and get them to make me a tongue.
Yerr right!

I might have a look at another engineering place on our travels or go to supercheap and see what they have.

Bruce there is an exhaust place in Kingroy who do towbars, but the drop I want may not be possible. As mentioned above the one I have at the moment has a 210mm bentl lenght and they may not be able to make them any longer, but I hope I'm wrong.

My wife of many, many years suggested that if I got the troopy raised 50mm I should be able to get the caravan raised as well.

I tried to explain that if it could be done it would be a lot dearer than any other way of fixing the problem. I'm not making much headway with that one. LOL

Dave

Would you believe I found that one last night by googling towbar height.

I have sent them an email and will await their reply.

Thanks for your help, appreciated.

Those fancy aluminium ones in that thread look good, I was almost tempted to find out what they cost to buy and get shipped over.

Dave the adjustable tongue is the longest HR make so it looks like the axle gets moved to give me some height on the van.

Actually Bruce we are heading back to Scone on good
friday, but inland. Thanks for the offer though.

I hate eating humble pie. I told my wife it would be too expensive and not a good idea but a bloke in Kingaroy pointed me towards another bloke that can do the job.

So I'm taking it down to him this afternoon.

Before I do I am going to have a good look under the van and see if I can see any problems. You know how it goes,,, by fixing one problem you can sometimes create another.

Bruce

As I understand it if I just put the axle under the springs all that really needs to be do is weld at the top where the spring meets the axle and tighten the U bolts or have I missed something?

I'm not sure I understand the bit about the backing plates etc.

When I go back to the caravan bloke I just want to make sure he knows what he is doing.

Hi Boo Boo,

Re Backing plates... There is a keeper plate welded to the underside of the axle which has a hole in the middle to allow the centre bolt in the spring to be housed so that the axle won't be "balancing" on top of this bolt. The plate is in effect a spacer around the centre bolt and allows the axle to sit flat against the spring.

You could rotate the axle so that the axle sits upside down from its present orientation. This puts the backing plates upside down and causes all sorts of issues so you have to remove the backing plates before you rotate and orientate them the right way as the last job before putting the wheels back on. Issues are park brake cable length, electric cable length if fitted with electric brakes and general brake design not accommodating upside down fitting.

It is better to remove the existing keeper plate and make a new one or reposition the existing one on top of the axle.

Both ways work if done properly and as you have a guy on to it now all should be well.
As you can see the explanation was a little long for the original reply here. I tend not to give the long explanation in the first instance in order not to boor people who may already be aware of the consequences.

Sorry about putting you in the gun there mate but perhaps you could buy your way out of the predicament by shouting your girl to a candle lit dinner.

Cheers, and all the best.

Bruce.

OK Bruce

I went to the bloke a bloke in Murgon and he seem to know what he is talking about. He said similar things to you and asked if it was a drop axle.

Derrrr, please explain.

And to my surprise it is a drop axle. He said this could be rotated to reduce the size of the lift if thats what I wanted.

He took the time to show me what he would do and it made sense to me,, sort of. LOL

Anyway he will do the job early next week and hopefully all will be well.

Thanks for all your help and patience it's appreciated.

Hi Boo Boo,

Glad to hear you got the problem sorted mate.

Mind you I read the part where you mentioned "Drop Axle" and I immediately thought, Oh No, that's the one thing I did not consider in my thinking. They can throw a spanner in the works sometimes but it appears you got the right fellow on the job.

Mate this kind of help cost nothing and as for patience well in these matters I have plenty. Just good to see you come out of it with a good outcome.

All the best.

Bruce.

snoopyone

Thanks for the heads up, I'll Look at that a little later.

Axle now why didn't I think of that.LOL

Glad I had the tyres deflated on Fraser Island last weekend,,, I almost got embarassed/bogged.

I still remember that I owe you a drink or two,, hopefully this yr at tumbi.