Towing with a 2000 Four Winds 21RB?
We're RV novices with lots of questions. The issue of the day is towing with our 21' Four Winds Class C on a Chevy chassis with a 350 c.i. engine. We'd like to flat tow a car, and my wife is sort of...
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Until a month ago, we RVed for 11 years in a 1999 22' Four Winds 5000 on a Chevy 1 ton chassis with the 350 CI Vortec V8.
My 4 Winds had a 5,000# hitch and many times, I pulled an enclosed trailer (2,000#) with a sports car (2,400#) inside from Dallas to both coasts.
I spent much of my career designing and building mobile military hardware/vehicles and experience suggests that your hitch probably has a designed-in 200% or 300% safety factor. For example, we'd regularly tow 25,000# aircraft with the 5,000# hitch on a HMMWV (=Hummer).
That said, because I was right up against my rated hitch capacity, I installed VERY heavy safety chains from the trailer frame to the RV frame. I never attach safety chains to the trailer tongue or to the RV hitch.
I'd upgrade the hitch and go have fun.
Tim
My 4 Winds had a 5,000# hitch and many times, I pulled an enclosed trailer (2,000#) with a sports car (2,400#) inside from Dallas to both coasts.
I spent much of my career designing and building mobile military hardware/vehicles and experience suggests that your hitch probably has a designed-in 200% or 300% safety factor. For example, we'd regularly tow 25,000# aircraft with the 5,000# hitch on a HMMWV (=Hummer).
That said, because I was right up against my rated hitch capacity, I installed VERY heavy safety chains from the trailer frame to the RV frame. I never attach safety chains to the trailer tongue or to the RV hitch.
I'd upgrade the hitch and go have fun.
Tim
