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Weight of our campers for being towed ?

 

For the purpose of telling tow trucks or trailer owners about the possibility of? towing a Toyota RV camper....
I have a 1985 New Horizon Camper with 22RE engine and the factory swap out rear dualie axles.?
What is the likely empty ( or towable) weight? of my camper ?? ? Anyone ever had theirs weighed ?
I have my worries about the extension of the camper body behind the rear axle and being about to be winched up onto a tow truck.? ?I think the rear bumper-chassis would drag the ground and a lower trailer might work better.
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Make them put it on the tow bed rear first. There are public scales everywhere. Google it to find one near you.?
My local dump will let me weigh my rig for free. Just drive in and drive out and they give you the weight.?
Linda S
 

Also - grain elevators have scales


On Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Linda S via <fly12fire=[email protected]> wrote:
Make them put it on the tow bed rear first. There are public scales everywhere. Google it to find one near you.?
My local dump will let me weigh my rig for free. Just drive in and drive out and they give you the weight.?
Linda S
 

I'm towing it to a mechanic.? Thats why I cant have it weighed.? Someone must have a ballpark weight range for these campers ? ? ?? ? Who has weighed theirs and what was the model and the weight please ?
 

Your gross vehicle weight rating for an 85 would have been 5500lbs so that's your weight. Not our job to make sure manufacturers abided by the law
Linda S
 

When mine was flat towed just 8 miles to the shop, the tow guy disconnected the drive line at the differential and tied it up. That's to protect the transmission he said.
 

don't need to do that for a manual trans
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rz
 

I too have a trailer hitch attached to the welded rear chassis extension and am thinking about how I could design
a small wheel that could be bolted into the hitch just like a trailer ball.? Or slide into the receiver....? I wonder where I would get a small tough wheel like that. Is your small wheel all steel ? The only thing I can think of is the small swivel wheels on the heavy duty carts at Home Depot and the non swivel wheels on Dumpsters.

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Hello Scott ...? we have a 87 RV 22 feet, has some extra things added, loaded with water scaled around 6600 pounds, (22re) ... Yes getting these rv's towed is a concern, with the frame extension and water tanks under there. Mine has a small wheel (2.5") in the receiver hitch. This sometimes would drag on a steep angle incline

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On some of the very old Toyota RVs like mine you cannot unbolt the driveshaft due to the corrosion.? When I decided to unbolt mine, it took a few days with torches and solvents and different kinds of sockets and wrenches etc.? All I can say is definitely use ONLY? ?six point sockets and wrenches because I rounded off the corners of some nuts that had to be cut off.? ?It might be a good idea to pre-emtively? undo and redo
the joints in your driveshaft and other connections of your suspension.
 

My 1985 Rogue 22r with the good axle, manual transmission, and (heavy) siding like the kind used on 18 wheeler trailers, went on a diet last year and I ripped out the oven, roof AC, water heater, and 3-way fridge (which was broken in 3 ways). Weighed it after unloading post trip at the local scale... just under 6000 lbs.


On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 9:06?AM Scott Perkins via <2scott=[email protected]> wrote:

I too have a trailer hitch attached to the welded rear chassis extension and am thinking about how I could design
a small wheel that could be bolted into the hitch just like a trailer ball.? Or slide into the receiver....? I wonder where I would get a small tough wheel like that. Is your small wheel all steel ? The only thing I can think of is the small swivel wheels on the heavy duty carts at Home Depot and the non swivel wheels on Dumpsters.

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Hello Scott ...? we have a 87 RV 22 feet, has some extra things added, loaded with water scaled around 6600 pounds, (22re) ... Yes getting these rv's towed is a concern, with the frame extension and water tanks under there. Mine has a small wheel (2.5") in the receiver hitch. This sometimes would drag on a steep angle incline

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Are all of you guys talking about the 21 or 22 ft rigs? My Sunrader Shorty gets onto a flat bed well enough with the help of the couple of 4X4’s the tow truck drivers like to carry with them, (to lift the back up so as not to scrape). Has anyone put one of the longer ones on a flatbed? Maybe put it on ass end first, maybe with a couple of additional 4X4’s, doesn’t seem impossible.

Also, if you have to tow it, if I’m not mistaken it’s only the automatic transmissions you have to disconnect. Manuals should just be out of gear. Doug
 

Mine is 24' with a loooong tail, but I replaced the leaf springs 6 years ago and the rear is a bit higher than before. I could have sworn I had it flat bed towed several years ago and that I took a picture, but I can't find it.
-------Andymon

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 2:13?PM Doug Hertzog via <itsuptoyoudad=[email protected]> wrote:
Are all of you guys talking about the 21 or 22 ft rigs? My Sunrader Shorty gets onto a flat bed well enough with the help of the couple of 4X4’s the tow truck drivers like to carry with them, (to lift the back up so as not to scrape). Has anyone put one of the longer ones on a flatbed?? Maybe put it on ass end first, maybe with a couple of additional 4X4’s, doesn’t seem impossible.

Also, if you have to tow it, if I’m not mistaken it’s only the automatic transmissions you have to disconnect. Manuals should just be out of gear. Doug
 

How do you use the 4x4s? to help prevent dragging and scraping when loading to a tow truck ?
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put them under the rear tires
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rz
 

Andymon, your post reminded me of a time a few years back, that I was buying one of the two 21’ Sunraders I owned (rather briefly), and the guy who was selling it to me showed me a photo of that one on a flatbed getting ready to move it to a repair shop I think.?

Seems to me a lot has to do with which tow operator you get.?

My advice is to have a couple of 4x4’s (long enough to get all 4 of your rear tires on), and call for a flatbed and see what happens when he gets there. If that guy can’t do it, just call someone else. It’s not impossible.
 

I am not really grasping the full procedure with the 4x4s.? ?Are we still pulling the campers onto the tow truck backend first ?? ?So we are on the side of the road broke down and we pull four? long sticks of 4x4? off the roof?
and jack up the rear axle and place each 4x4 under each wheel ?? ? ? ? I have not been able to fully research the small roller wheels to be placed in the trailer hitch or connected under the rear bumper or chassis extension but the? dumpter? ?rollers looked promising at first glance.
 

pulling it on front first. put the 4x4s under the rear wheels to gain clearance in the back.
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rz
 

It hasn't been mentioned when to put 4x4 in front of rear wheeles....
I imagine... as the RV is being pulled up the tilted bed of the tow truck.... they are placed just as the tail end of the RV is starting to come close to pavement.
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They'll put them under each of the rear wheels as they are winching it up the ramp.?

The rear wheels will be on the ground, and as the front ones start to go up the ramp, the back of the rv will be getting closer and closer to the ground, so in order to try to keep it from scraping they will run the back tires up a four by four, (which is actually only 3-1/2" thick), so having more thickness to run the tires up will raise it higher might be handy if your rig overhangs the rear axel very far.
 

My mom put a series of Wheels on the back of her 77 Chinook for the scraping issue. The sagging was so bad that the wheels that were put on broke off a lot. But I think one that worked was a swivel maybe 6 in wheel attached to the frame in the back. If I were to do that today I would just get a wheel That's rated for like one or two tons maybe. Actually I would prefer if my $85 dolphin would scrape I would work on the suspension and leaf springs and maybe airbags. Rather than a sketchy wheel in the back. Best of luck

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