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| Marc (Mps9000) (67.25.123.19)
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I've always sworn I would never tow a vehicle, but now I'm considering towing my Jeep just a short distance, from the storage yard to home (1/2 hour drive), so that when I bring the bus home for the weekend, I can have my Jeep here too. Don't really want to drive the bus to the corner store / laundromat etc. Anyway, I've heard that a tow bar would require a trailer hitch. I then recalled the day my bus was delivered from the dealer. The driver was towing a small car behind the bus with a tow bar. The bus has NO hitch, just 2 hooks. What kind of tow bar could this have been that didn't require a hitch? I also recall new buses being delivered to my former employer's bus yard, also with a car towed behind, and none of their buses had hitches either. Could it be that there is such a tow bar that can be hooked up to those hooks? Or is it my vivid imagination?  | ||
| jmaxwell (66.81.208.209) Rating: N/A |
No, not your imagination. They use to make tow bars that used a hook clevis, chain, and adjustable eye that latched to the bumper. That was in the days before plastic wrap bumpers. I seriously doubt that they are still manufactured since there is little or no market for them. Also, I imagine that various state laws have rendered them illegal. Just bite the bullet and put an adequate and legal hitch on the bus. Your going to need that jeep when u hit the road u know. | ||
| DonTX/KS (205.187.92.171)
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I rented one of them from the local UHaul to pull my car back home when I bought my bus. I still see them around at swap meets and garage sales. Jmaxwell is right though, it is no big deal to just put on a GOOD hitch, I used an old receiver hitch from the junk pile, put it on myself, zero cost. | ||
| Geoff (Geoff) (66.238.120.70)
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Marc-- I clicked on your name and saw your Bluebird bus-- welding a custom receiver on your bus would not be hard since you have a frame chassis. | ||
| John Feld (150.199.209.17) Rating: N/A |
Drive-A-Way drivers have used portable hitches for many years, and still do. I have used one I built for transporting semi-tractors and frame busses for 5+ years without incident. I towed a full size Dodge PU and could adjust the hitch to any make and model. So, yes it can be done. However, in your case it would be much simpler to install a permanet hitch, and can be done quickly and cheap on a frame bus such as you have. A frame rail hitch on your bus is no different than on a PU truck, only bigger, any place that knows how to install hitches should be able to do it in a few hours. John 4104 |