Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
The driveway's full once again. The car trailer needed maintenance. Besides repacking wheel bearings, replacing the end of the wiring pigtail and adding an additional ground for the hydraulic pump - I figured it was time to install the electric winch I'd gotten for Christmas.
I had to hang by the phone waiting for a call back from Star Lite Motorsports. They're the shop that's been working on the Roadrunner. They'd called this morning and were having problems figuring out the interface with the hand held display. I guess I'm surprised they weren't able to zip right through the tuning without calling. Maybe I'm not such an idiot after all. Despite waiting all day, I never did get the call back. - Not sure why. Either the information I passed on was sufficient or they've decided to do the rest of it on their own. :scratch:
We'd discussed mounting options for the winch and had originally wanted to install it beneath the trailer deck. Doing so would have kept it out of our way when strapping the vehicles down and my son had found online a nifty example of one done that way that we were going to copy.
Unfortunately we had to decide against that option after taking some measurements. The winch we had was 11" tall (quite a bit bigger than the one we'd viewed) so the box we would have had to make would have been almost a foot below the deck surface. The trailer is often towed to places with speed bumps, dips, and other obstacles that were likely to cause problems with clearance.
The aluminum box on the front of the trailer houses the hydraulic pump, trailer battery, and tie-down straps. Although we could have fit the winch inside - it wasn't structurally strong enough to withstand the winch's pulling power without major re-engineering. It would also have limited our ability to access the battery and pump when we needed to.
We opted to keep it simple and bolted it down to the front of the deck.
At first we thought we might construct a cover made from aluminum deck plate to match the front of the trailer but dismissed that idea after realizing it would be more difficult to keep the cable wound nicely if we couldn't see it. Instead we're just going to order one of the pre-made vinyl covers that are made for it.
The way the trailer was originally set up, the trailer battery charge was supposed to be maintained through the 7 prong trailer connector. I couldn't get a large enough cable inside it to properly handle the duty so I'm going to run a pair of 2 gauge cables from the truck's battery back through a separate 2 prong connector.
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The driveway's full once again. The car trailer needed maintenance. Besides repacking wheel bearings, replacing the end of the wiring pigtail and adding an additional ground for the hydraulic pump - I figured it was time to install the electric winch I'd gotten for Christmas.
I had to hang by the phone waiting for a call back from Star Lite Motorsports. They're the shop that's been working on the Roadrunner. They'd called this morning and were having problems figuring out the interface with the hand held display. I guess I'm surprised they weren't able to zip right through the tuning without calling. Maybe I'm not such an idiot after all. Despite waiting all day, I never did get the call back. - Not sure why. Either the information I passed on was sufficient or they've decided to do the rest of it on their own. :scratch:
We'd discussed mounting options for the winch and had originally wanted to install it beneath the trailer deck. Doing so would have kept it out of our way when strapping the vehicles down and my son had found online a nifty example of one done that way that we were going to copy.
Unfortunately we had to decide against that option after taking some measurements. The winch we had was 11" tall (quite a bit bigger than the one we'd viewed) so the box we would have had to make would have been almost a foot below the deck surface. The trailer is often towed to places with speed bumps, dips, and other obstacles that were likely to cause problems with clearance.
The aluminum box on the front of the trailer houses the hydraulic pump, trailer battery, and tie-down straps. Although we could have fit the winch inside - it wasn't structurally strong enough to withstand the winch's pulling power without major re-engineering. It would also have limited our ability to access the battery and pump when we needed to.
We opted to keep it simple and bolted it down to the front of the deck.
At first we thought we might construct a cover made from aluminum deck plate to match the front of the trailer but dismissed that idea after realizing it would be more difficult to keep the cable wound nicely if we couldn't see it. Instead we're just going to order one of the pre-made vinyl covers that are made for it.
The way the trailer was originally set up, the trailer battery charge was supposed to be maintained through the 7 prong trailer connector. I couldn't get a large enough cable inside it to properly handle the duty so I'm going to run a pair of 2 gauge cables from the truck's battery back through a separate 2 prong connector.
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