Interesting! I would bet hooking up that small load transfer trailer would be a real pain, Never mind trying to back it up!
You use a locking bar when backing up but there is zero give in movement. Line it up dead nuts or try again. If I didn’t love the area I live in I would have sold and moved to a nice level acre lot and live in my shop. When I bought it in 1985 I towed with a van and open trailer and grew from there. One van, two Chevy suburbans, Chevy diesel, dodge diesel, and three different motorhomes im here to stay. Lol
My DP Motor Home is fairly easy to line up as it has an adjustable rear cam. The setup you showed seems to go pretty deep into your rig or is it just mounted off to the side? My 3500 ram is wide open and quite easy!
I think that's typical with us racers to put off medical procedures, maybe we put the money saved into the car! Now, if it was something medical that affected your ability to race, you'd be on it like a duck on a Junebug!My knees both need replaced and I’ve been putting it off. Kinda like hearing aids needed from 33 years in a steel mill, shooting, and racing.
View attachment 1715943345 View attachment 1715943346 View attachment 1715943347 View attachment 1715943348 View attachment 1715943349 I wasn’t sure where to post this as it was Mopar tech and in the general section things get buried quickly but this may help a racer or hauler out some. I put this off years ago after almost investing in one. When I use the motorhome for a two day or longer race it’s a son of a gun. First I have to hook the race car trailer up to my truck and pull my trailer up my driveway. Then I block it up and unhook it from my truck. Then I park the truck and jump in my motorhome and go up the hill to hook up to my race car trailer. With the Trailer Toad on and wide motorhome I can not see the car trailer well to judge not only distance but side to side to line up the ball. To add to the problem everything is slanted. Sometimes I’m in and out 6-8 times hooking up with aching knees. Well I ordered a back up camera and got it Tuesday and loaded the program on my iPhone last night. Putting the camera behind my hitch lock I lined the motorhome up perfect but I couldn’t tell exactly when the ball was under the hitch so I got out once and moved the camera to the Toad. That worked perfect and only took one in,out. I think if I make up a steel plate and mount it on my wind up crank it’s wam bamm done. This is a job I hated bigtime. 130.00 well spent.
Slick....I have a really cheap China one, and glued a magnet to the camera, which is very small, about 1" square. I just connect it, slam it onto the tail gate, and I can see well enough to "hit" the trailer
Very cool. I've been contemplating one for the half ton as it's a pain loading and unloading a boat/trailer without one.
Do you know if you can use/buy a wireless monitor for it? I'm not a fan of apps on my phone.