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need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/2/2008 2:09:39 PM

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Does anyone know of a way that I could hook the travel trailer to the back of the truck.

I have a Crew Cab short bed 1/2 ton chevy and when I put the four wheeler in the back I have to leave the tail gate down, the back tires sit in the middle of the tailgate.

I bought one of those LA Gaurd dog hitches adn it worked great when I had a pop up but now im not sure how well it will work on a travel trailer, it says its only handles 400lb tongue weight.

Does anyone have any suggestion besides buying a long wheel base truck.

Thanks in advance for your help

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/2/2008 4:09:39 PM

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Use the hitch in conjunction with a load leveling hitch. It might help. That or get a custom 2" hitch made that's longer. All you need really is a shop to get a solid piece of 2"x2" square stock bar and drill the holes accordingly.

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/3/2008 12:34:38 AM

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Just use ratchet straps to secure the wheeler in your truck and then use a long shank hitch for your trailer to hook to.

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/3/2008 8:23:12 AM

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Thanks for your help, I figured that might be the way

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/3/2008 4:08:39 PM

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Or you can get crazy and put a tow hitch on the rear of the camper and tow a small trailer. The camper has to have electric brakes for this to be legal though.

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Custom 2" Snorkel
27" MudZillas
2 Front Apes
1.5" Spacers All The Way Around
DynoJet Jet Kit
UNI Filter
55W Halogen on the Back
More to come......

1999 Yamaha Kodiak 400 4x4
2" Home made bracket lift
1.5" Snorkel
DynoJet Kit
UNI Filter
27" Swamplites on 14" ITPs

Riding Pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17656867@N03/
http://www.myspace.com/joshislazy

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/4/2008 12:30:28 PM

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I think thats what I'm gonna hafta do too. Only I gotta pull two bikes

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/4/2008 1:32:14 PM

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No need for all of that.
Take a set of car ramps and put them in the back of your truck against the cab. Drive the front wheels up on them. That will allow the wheeler to come further forward and rear wheels to sit on the bed , not the tailgate. You may even be able to shut the tailgate. If not take the tailgate off and hook the trailer up normally.
If you dont have the ramps I'm talking about either buy a set or build some up rams out of wood and plywood. It will cost you $30 max and be way cheaper than the other suggestions, not to mention safer.
With most of my bikes hauling them this way allowed the front rack to be higher than the cab, so I could pull up even further.
I hauled many of bikes in the back of my Ford Ranger that way. It saved me a ton of fuel compared to pulling out the 1 ton.

Let me know if it works. I bet it will be fine.

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/4/2008 2:20:41 PM

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Great Idea, just hapens taht I do have a pair of car ramps at the house I will try that next weekend, thanks for the advice

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RE: need help hooking Travel Trailer to truck - 9/4/2008 5:26:53 PM

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Be very afraid of a tag-along camper with an extended hitch, including the LGD. Never, ever use a weight distributing hitch with an extended hitch or the LGD.

If it comes to throwing money and resources at the problem, don't rule out a local fabrication shop. They can knock out a "half a tailgate" that's custom fit to carry the scooter and secures witht he existing hardware. When you add up all of the this's and that's, it'll probably be pretty competative.

And I know you said you're gonna, but do research the service ramps approach. It sounds like it'll still be close, but this is by far my preferred solution, it does gain more room than you'd think. You'll want "real" ratchet straps, and four of them... (Front corners of the bike to the rear of the bed, rear corners of the bike to the front of the bed) In a worst case scenario even if it isn't your own doing, you don't want that scooter coming forward and splattering whomever's in the back seat.

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