Currently away in the Tintent, just walked the dogs round the site, saw a guy with a FFRR struggling to hitch up, to get the van level the hitch was eight or nine inches above the towbar, winds the jockey wheel down and it's still not low enough to hitch on the ball, what's he do, he gets a scissor jack out, puts it under the A Frame and is raising it up and so he can drop the Jockey Wheel again, his wife looked at me and shook her head, quietly said to her to put it in off road height, I know she said, that's what I've told him.
27th Nov 2016 11:09 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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The trouble with jacking it up under the tow hitch, is that the suspension will lower to compensate for the increase in height, putting the whole weight of the back end of the RR onto the jack! Accident waiting to happen. Richard
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27th Nov 2016 11:36 am
sean 471
Member Since: 26 Apr 2011
Location: Sheffield
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Once saw a guy lowering the jockey wheel on his caravan and could not get it down into the towbar. He shrugged when I pointed it out his front legs on the caravan were still down.
The trouble with jacking it up under the tow hitch, is that the suspension will lower to compensate for the increase in height, putting the whole weight of the back end of the RR onto the jack! Accident waiting to happen.
No, he was jacking the A Frame on the Van not jacking the vehicle
27th Nov 2016 5:09 pm
D4mation
Member Since: 29 Jul 2011
Location: Ruralshire
Posts: 593
When unhitching I unclamp the jockey wheel tube and drop it till the wheel is about 10cm from the ground, and then start winding the wheel down. This gives a bit of leeway when hitching up later, after the car has settled down.MY12 D4 HSE Ipanema Sand
30th Nov 2016 9:16 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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Washwipe wrote:
rrhool wrote:
The trouble with jacking it up under the tow hitch, is that the suspension will lower to compensate for the increase in height, putting the whole weight of the back end of the RR onto the jack! Accident waiting to happen.
No, he was jacking the A Frame on the Van not jacking the vehicle
Oh, mis-read Richard
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Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone
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