Third Major Blue Ox Casualty
Yesterday on our first trip of 2014, our Blue Ox Aventa LX Towbar separated in heavy traffic on I-85 near Charlotte, NC. One leg of the towbar came completely loose with the stub end dragging on the...
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pigman1 wrote:
...Regardless, the attach bolts started to thin out the Chevy box frame, elongate the holes and actually crack the frame in 2 places. I ended up having to re-tighten the bolts at the end of each day's run and completely remove the base plate when I got home.
Wait - the frame on your Chevy deformed and the Blue Ox tow plate is at fault? If the Blue Ox plate was the problem, I'd expect to see IT deformed. Sounds to me like the Chevy frame could not take the forces applied to it by towing, and you would have seen the same damage no matter what tow plate you used.
