PGDriver
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What should one use to drill out a broken titanium drill bit?![]()
A carbide drill bit maybe.
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Doug
What should one use to drill out a broken titanium drill bit?![]()
I think your little fella there needs a bit of a time out. ;DOh in that case....:tickedoff:
I think your little fella there needs a bit of a time out. ;D
That's a reason that I don't want a wide tongue box... or propane tanks overhanging the frame. A much more effective (and much more difficult) solution than extending the ball mount, which also improves stability and reduces hitch load (instead of making them worse), is to extend the tongue of the trailer. I note that Bigfoot has an even bigger body-width storage box than Escape, but they extend the trailer's frame to compensate so turning clearance is not lost.I thought added distance when executing a jack-knife maneuver would help keep the tow bumper from crunching into my tongue box. It helped, but not enough to Trump (sorry) the overall towing experience.
Good point. Another option is to use an Ultimate Jack, which can be raised for towing and lowered for tailgateYou can also use the Jack-E-Up up removable jack, that way you can use the shorter stingers for better towing. Jack-E-Up
By George he's got it, Eric's really got it. Yes he's got it.
Looks good!Well, after killing a couple of drill bits, (that WDH is HARD, my Dremel and round file came in handy) and following all the instructions for the Pro Series with the trailer hooked up and the WDH adjusted I took it out for a test run over to our local COOP for some weighing. Felt excellent, and no sway with trying some very fast lane change type maneuvers.
I would say the opposite. Raising the tongue shifts the mass of the trailer rearward and upward, making it less stable. As a result, slightly nose-down is always preferred for single-axle trailers. As a minor side-effect, nose-down would help clearance between the Highlander's hatch and the Escape's tongue jack, in case that is an issue.I'm able to get the front of the HIghlander back to almost precisely its loaded but unhitched height as the instructions specify but the front the trailer is up above level. From trying to read more about this on the web, I've concluded that for a single axle trailer too high is better than too low. The rationale is that in any heavy braking need, that the weight is shifted to the front of the trailer and putting more downforce on it - thus pushing down more on the ball.
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I would say the opposite. Raising the tongue shifts the mass of the trailer rearward and upward, making it less stable. As a result, slightly nose-down is always preferred for single-axle trailers. As a minor side-effect, nose-down would help clearance between the Highlander's hatch and the Escape's tongue jack, in case that is an issue.
Yes, during braking there will be more load on the tongue, but at the same time the tow vehicle is shifting load (for the same reason) from rear axle to front axle, so there is no problem with the trailer tongue pushing the ball down too much under braking.
That makes sense. 11 - 12% while tilted slightly up does mean that it will be greater when level or lower; the effect is already showing, but you can't tell without tongue weights at each height. Fortunately the rate of change with tilt is not as great with a single-axle as it is with a tandem-axle.Huum - good food for thought. But I measured the tongue weight with the tongue at very close to its height when all hooked up and the WDH installed. It was right at about 11 - 12%. If the nose up angle were shifting the load enough to matter wouldn't that show in tongue weight? 17's are pretty tongue heavy and a tongue down angle could potentially get it over 15%. I've had more instances with almost too much tongue weight rather than too little with it.
Maybe I wasn't so clear...I'm having trouble visualizing how tongue down could help clearance between the jack and hatch - seem like tongue down would angle to top of the jack closer to the hatch? But there is plenty there anyway on ours.