Re: [A/S] Re: Tow Vehicle, Need some quick advise!

In the cases I was thinking about, it still has an effect, it's just not
noticed as much in the tow vehicle if you have a big truck and nice
hitch. An out of balance trailer (whether due to design or misloading),
one with bad springs, or frame issues, or one with substandard or low
tires, etc still have an effect on the sidewalls of the trailer tires
(leading to heating and probably blown out tires eventually) or on
twisting the frame when the tail is trying to wag to dog, to pick up
someone else's example, until it eventually damages the trailer frame or
body, even though you're still able to pull it down the road.
I wasn't talking about the little swerves you get meeting a truck or
going over a crooked bridge lip; those are a momentary problem that
could turn ugly if you couldn't stop them, but not the sort of long term
issues it sounded like we were talking about in the beginning related to
a particular trailer model or trailer design.
Jim

On 3/28/2011 2:45 PM, stwoodruff22 wrote:
>
> Not to get philosophical here but is a cause a cause if it has no effect?
>
> --- In AirstreamList@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:AirstreamList%40yahoogroups.com>, "Jim Sealy Jr."
> <jimsealyjr@...> wrote:
> >
> > I meant big trucks and hitches can manage the effect, but not the cause.
> > A trailer that doesn't have a reason to sway will track if it's
> behind a
> > Toyota with a ball on a bumper or a Freightliner with a Reese; it's
> just
> > that the big trucks can force a problem trailer to track, but the
> > underlying problem is still working on the trailer.
> > That's what gets people with little tow vehicles in trouble when
> > something isn't perfect.
> > Jim
> >
> > On 3/28/2011 7:58 AM, Hunter Hampton wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Sealy Jr. wrote:
> > >
> > > > Big trucks and fancy hitches will help deal with sway, but they
> don't
> > > > stop it,>
> > >
> > > Yes they do.
> > >
> > > Hunter
> > >
> >
> >
>

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