churious
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churious
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Andersen is part of a total hitch system along with the OEM receiver. So its plug and play into any receiver. Ive been dreaming of an Airstream for years. When the kids are grow up and its just me and wife the plan is a RR and Airstream.
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Both of these rigs are **** and I'm envious. I hope others will post up some pics of their LRs + travel trailers, too.
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I was gonna say... with that roof rack you could bring your full size up top or somewhere in the trailer.
Thats one thing I need to get wrapped up. I bought a FS wheel and have a tire on order. Need to get it mounted and on the rig!
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Yep. I put it on top. When I took this pic I had it in the back of the LR4 but that is awkward when you want to use the back. Most of last summer I had it on top. Even had to take a FS spare on/off a couple of times on the trail due to flats.
It would be nice if we didn't have to go with the Curt receiver and could store the FS spare underneath. But we like our trailer and will spend far more time in it than I (hopefully) will taking the spare on/off the top.
I remove the rack during the winter. But I also put the stock wheels back on with snow tires. So for that reason I am going to get a "toy" spare and put it underneath. Not something I would want to use off road but it will be OK for the sort of winter driving we do should I ever need it.
My requirement is dry camping in places I can access. If that includes some trail work the better. Since the below pic the LR hitch has been replaced with Rhino and 285/60-18 Grabber AT2 spare tire relocated from cargo to original factory storage. The factory hitch does not allow an oversize tire. Rhino does and moves receiver to normal position. Swing-away? Maybe in future.
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Just curious. When you all pull your trailers, how do you use the transmission. I was on a Land Cruiser site recently where they were discussing pulling a trailer with the new 8-speed transmission they added to that truck. Apparently there is a setting for the LC that allows you to limit the transmission to a particular (higher) gear. So if you set it at 6 the transmission will not shift into the 7 or 8 gears (overdrive.) Some use this when they are pulling a trailer. Others use manual shifting.
I often use S(port) mode when pulling my trailer so it will hold a lower gear longer and so I can manually downshift to use engine braking. Wondering what you other trailer-pullers do.
I often use S(port) mode when pulling my trailer so it will hold a lower gear longer and so I can manually downshift to use engine braking. Wondering what you other trailer-pullers do.
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I have just used the regular auto setting as the trailer is pretty light. I will switch to the manual mode from time to time I imagine but with my P2 brake controller I probably won't use engine braking that often.
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I have no "trailering" experience whatsoever, but I can tell you that flipping the shifter to S(port) in the LR4 won't allow the transmission to engage overdrive (that would be 6th gear in pre-2014s with the 6-speed ZF transmission, not sure about the 8-sp tranny of later model years.)
