Yikes! Rockey mountain special

BenK wrote:
Personally wouldn't...understand the engineering aspects of CanAm in transference
of forces to a larger portion of the monocoque (unibody) and say the weak link
is the automatic tranny of any mini van. Mine is considered the weakest of the
mini vans (Odyssey)...of course factored by sizing (not just weight, but frontal
area of the trailer)

Lower CG is always the better way to go

I'd like to know where else CanAm transfers the forces to on the monocoque pan

I had concerns about this too...

I have heard prospective horror stories from people talking about how the receiver would rip out of the unibody under WD etc.

However, earlier this year my wife was rearended sitting still and the car that hit her was going about 45 MPH.

The 2 inch class II receiver took the brunt of the hit...you would expect the receiver to have ripped off the sheet metal unibody....it did not!

The receiver was bent and mangled but the body endured. The twisting force applied to that receiver, which was then applied to the unibody was exponentially more than any WD hitch could have applied.

(Ya know, 3500 lb car hitting a sitting 5000 lb car in the receiver at 40 MPH, not sure of the math, BenK can you translate that into force mathematically?)

In the end, the force from the hit torqued the receiver to the ground (literally bent it down) and this force torqued the body of the Kia just enough to have to be put on a frame straightening machine.

All in all, the WD forces are transmitted through the entire unibody. Can-Am's receivers do a better job of transmitting the torque forward because their receivers do not bend under WD...

Thanks!

Jeremiah