Re: Re: Re: Re: transporting tractor
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Posted by Todd Markle on November 17, 1998 at 19:51:37:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: transporting tractor posted by John Horace Dodge on November 15, 1998 at 21:12:54:
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: : : Make sure you have plenty of liability insurance
: : : on your truck. If someone pulls out in front of
: : : you or stops quickly you will make a new enemy.
: : : I have a 4600 Ford and I wouldn't think of hauling
: : : it without trailer brakes. : : I hauled an 8N behind a 1/2 ton chevy w manual trans on a trailer with no brakes and I
: : wouldnt recomend it. You'd be better off to drive
: : the tractor or have someone else haul it for you.
: : here in Pa. any trailer weighted over 3000lbs
: : must have brakes. : Mebbe one of our fine Cummins diesel powered one ton models would provide sufficent braking for you. I had a scarey ride in one of those pulling a trailer WITH brakes. It seems they had a problem with the abs system that didn't allow the rear brakes to work. It was my buddys truck
a 93 w350 w cummins and auto trans. We were pulling an 18' trailer with a super M on it. and the trailer brakes worked good. we crested a mountain and I told him to put it in low gear and
it was a good thing because halfway down the mountain the front truck brakes got overheated
and weren't doing much ,then the trailer brakes also overheated and we had no choice but to ride it out. When we hit the bottom we were
doing about 70. we got slowed down and stopped and the rear brakes weren't even warm.
He took it to the dealer and they said there wasn"t anything wrong with it. The moral of this story is; Trucks brakes are made to stop the truck loaded to its max GVW and not any more.
Any trailer behind it over 3000lbs should have its own brakes.
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