I bet that would have been fun ride.
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I bet that would have been fun ride.
Renze
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Thats a Trabant with a 2 cylinder 2 stroke, from former East Germany (russian territory)Use enough car, and don't jerk on a chain.
Bruce
Germany has built a name as a manufacturing nation, where the Eastern part under Soviet control untill 1989, had the worst of everything. When the iron curtain fell, all of their industry was so outdated that they vanished when they quit pumping public money in it.
By the way, this Trabant has a fiberglass body, and they are still an environmental hazard in the many landfills. when the East Germans got some Westmarks (instead of the east Mark used in the Eastern part) they rolled their Trabants off the overpass when they quit on them, walked to the nearest garage and bought Western cars... They were just dumped alongside the highways. Nowadays they are collectors items, especially now in times of crisis some Easterners are longing for the Commie days with job security..
Redneck in training
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Trabant was a cheap vehicle it didn't pretend otherwise. In fact it was quite reliable, had large fuel consumption and it was only car that you could remove the engine from the car by bare hands overhaul it on your kitchen table and put it back in the car in about two hours. It was not made of fiberglass but from a material very similr to formica (Counter top stuff). There were many jokes about the car.
wolfpack2
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Looks to me like he has an air ride suspension system that either bled down while parked or was dumped to kneel the back of the truck.
BigE_
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Sunday morning I hooked the boat up for a nice day on the river going for steelhead and salmon. I only made it a few miles down the highway with the boat on the back. It was putting up a bit of a clatter and was towing funny. Not to mention it was bouncing a bit more than usual. I pulled off to the side of the road to check the wheel hubs, thinking the brakes were locking or something. Nothing there. Hubs were cold, and everything looked fine, so I started looking elsewhere.
A few months back I needed a hitch pin for the wife's Blazer, so I pulled it out of the receiver on my Silverado. I needed a locking pin to keep the trailer secure, and I couldn't find the one for the Blazer. I made a mental note that I needed to return it. You can guess what happened...
Fortunately, I keep my chains long enough so I can make a tight turn but just barely. The chains were short enough to keep the hitch from pulling out of the receiver all the way. I dropped the boat / trailer off the on the side of the road, made a quick run back to the house for the pin, and was back on the road in 25 minutes. Fun stuff, for sure. Lesson learned!
A few months back I needed a hitch pin for the wife's Blazer, so I pulled it out of the receiver on my Silverado. I needed a locking pin to keep the trailer secure, and I couldn't find the one for the Blazer. I made a mental note that I needed to return it. You can guess what happened...
Fortunately, I keep my chains long enough so I can make a tight turn but just barely. The chains were short enough to keep the hitch from pulling out of the receiver all the way. I dropped the boat / trailer off the on the side of the road, made a quick run back to the house for the pin, and was back on the road in 25 minutes. Fun stuff, for sure. Lesson learned!
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I think he just needs to extend the hitch about 6" to get it to ride level. Maybe. It doesn't look like the truck is sagging that much.
mikehaugen
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Thought you were going to say that you had a 2 5/15" hitch on a 2" ball. A friend of mine was telling me he did that by mistake but he made it about 40 miles before realizing it. It made more sense to run into the store and buy another one than go back home and leave the trailer... luckily there was a store nearby.
BigE_
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I haven't driven the Silverado since I stole the pin out of the hitch. But, the hitch has been sitting there in the back.
For clarification, this is a drop hitch, and there are actually four pins total on the hitch. One on the receiver tube, two on the drop portion, and one more because it is a 3 way. Hindsight, if I were to "borrow" a pin again, I should've taken one from the drop portion, as it would be very obvious something was missing.
It looks something like this:
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