SweetLou wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of reports so if I repeat I'm sorry. Short wheel base should be understood. Balance your loads and don't speed. Whipping a trailer with a short wheel base vehicle will be lets say exciting.
We started out towing a 19ft Fleetwood with a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 Limited with an Equalizer hitch. I installed HD rear coils, an a/m tru-cool tranny cooler, heavy duty rear sway bar and all things considered it towed like a champ. Tranny took everything I threw at it and motor and tranny never over-heated even during high altitude heavy pulls. No, it wasn't racing up the hills, but for what it was I was pleased.
Then one day we were flying along a highway in WY and the trailer blew a tire. It whipped the Jeep around like a rag doll and we were inches from laying the whole rig on its side. My parents were towing behind us and saw the whole thing. That was the last year we towed with the Jeep and I went and bought a 3/4 ton truck. Speaking from experience, wheel base was the biggest issue with those smaller tow vehicles.
