It will need both a/c and a furnace, because the temperature around here goes from 0 to 100 degrees in 60 seconds.
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What am I looking for? The trailer must have a full bathroom with shower, because sharing the feeble bathroom in my small cabin with guests is not an option. Plus, I have never towed anything in my life. It's complicated, because I would like both a vintage truck as a daily driver, and a vintage trailer to use as a guest house or airbnb rental, with the occasional ability to bug out when there are mandatory evacuations due to wildfires - and I'm new to both. There are plenty of capable vintage vehicles, I’ve been driving them everyday for decades. We didn’t ‘play by the rules”, especially when there were no rules! Another thing to remember, back then, a 22-foot trailer was a medium-sized trailer, now it's considered very small. None the less, it would appear that "back in the day" people got along fine without a 3/4 ton pickup truck as a tow vehicle. I think the older trailers were lighter than the ones we see now, no air conditioner, usually no bathroom, furnace is a rudimentary item, no slides. Steve McQueen is pulling a horse trailer with a Cadillac. They are pulling a trailer (probably a 31-33 foot) with a Mercury sedan.
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There is an old movie called, "The Long, Long Trailer" starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Were all those pretty pictures I saw just vintage travel trailer porn? So, I go search to see what kind of vintage vehicle is suitable for towing a travel trailer, in terms of engine and body type, and I find all sorts of cautions and some flat out "don't do it" kinds of advice. I see all these pictures online of beautifully restored, vintage travel trailers, matched perfectly with an adorable vintage car or truck in front to tow it. This is for 1980-86 from Ford, I would suggest that your capacity is a bit less. I had a 1990 Bronco with that 4.9/300 I6, great engine. There are many videos on Youtube showing brake controller installation. Thanks for all those and all the other tips, guys.Ī good trailer brake controller (such as Prodigy) allows you to manually apply the brakes with a lever on/under the dash, but yes, they normally get triggered by the brake lights on your tow vehicle. What I've seen online suggests the trailer brakes are wired to the tow vehicle brake light wire?Īnd, yes, the truck is a short bed.
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I've still got to figure out how to wire up the turn and brake wires and the electric trailer brakes (by the way how does one activate the trailer brakes before the truck brakes. And last night I priced light truck tires online as well as shocks. There is also some play in the ball joint and that feels at the very frontier of my ability.
and this is really 'my' list, since, though I am a carpenter and not a mechanic, I do all this stuff myself. they're pretty scored, pretty deep grooves. This afternoon I had an experienced parts guy look at my front rotors and do a 'Whoa Nelly!'. I DO have a four speed with granny gear, but though I've owned this truck for over ten years and a 78 f150 for ten years before that, I have never towed anything