

| Subject: | Re: Towing A 2WD Westy |
| From: | wb6otg |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:53:13 -0400 |
Power is not as much of a problem as braking! I once towed a Westy with a 4 cylinder Isuzu Trooper II. I could accelerate OK (The combo still can almost out accelerate a Westy!), and the brakes were up to the job (Nice 4 wheel disk brakes on the Trooper), but the limiting factor was the "back end trying to pass the front end" problem in a stop. I also made a turn too tight coming out of a parking lot and ran the Westy over a curb (at very low speed) and it set up an oscillation that felt like it was going to flip the trooper over! There is no substitue for a heavy tow vehicle. Bill ------------------------- I towed a westy from Moline to Detroit a couple of years back with an Ford Explorer towing a u-haul tow dolly. To book, I had to say that the Explorer was a V8 version and not V6 - something to do with u-haul weight/power combinations which I could not get to the bottom of so just 'played the game' - The guy I picked the tow dolly up from couldn't care less as it turned out but the guys on the reservation line seemed particular on details.
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