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Post by hillbilly54 on Aug 5, 2015 22:14:32 GMT 10
Anyone out there using a "YANK TANK" to tow?.. Any incidents or close calls to share?
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Post by greedy53 on Aug 5, 2015 22:35:43 GMT 10
a FRIEND OF MINE HAS A YANK TANK WELL HE HAD 1 BUT HE TOWED A SMALL TRAILER AND HAD A SMALL CAMERA FITTED INTO THE FRONT OF THE RIGHT HAND EXTERNAL MIRROR AND A SMALL SCREEN ON THE DASH.HE COULD SEE AHEAD BETTWR THAN I COULD CLEVER BUGGER
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Post by doublechevron on Aug 6, 2015 10:00:50 GMT 10
What sort ? I reckon you want an american "truck" if your going to tow. There cars have there back axle in the middle .... imagine the lever effect of putting something heavy on the towbar !! If it's small and light, given the size and weight of the car, I reckon it would be fine  If you ever go down to queenscliff on the hotrod weekend, you'll see old american cars travelling in from all over towing caravans and trailers. Come to think of it, most are pre-60's so don't have the rear axle in the middle of the car though We camped there not realising it was the hotrod weekend a few years back. It was brilliant... A HUGE family event for all involved and they were incredibly well behaved. seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by hillbilly54 on Aug 6, 2015 12:50:28 GMT 10
Yeh..i thought about using a camera or go pro, it might take a bit of time to get my head around that one. Got a '56 chev LHD 350V8/turbo700 with overdrive and stock diff which will tow a 12' fibreglass van about 600kg.
It's not usually the die hards that make a nuisense for everyone else but the "hangers on". I Always wanted to drive one of those Citreons, had an idea long ago to use a floor pan with the hydraulics on a hot rod project! (that soon got poo pood by the mob). Did I spell CITREON correctly?
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Post by doublechevron on Aug 6, 2015 13:31:24 GMT 10
I don't get why LHD makes any difference. It theory it will make towing safer as you can more readily see down your left had side to merge over. Your not going to be overtaking when towing a caravan. 600kg 'van ? Ithe old chev won't even know it's there ... you might when you hit the fuel bowser though You will be using towing mirrors to see around both sides of the caravan after all Citroen suspension would be an interesting project. You would really need to use there subframe. The hydraulic rams need to lock into the subframe and attach to the top suspension arm. You would also need rollbars both ends in the old chev. There is a height corrector that sensors the height using a simple clamp around the center of the rollbar. If the car is sitting to low .... the rollbar will be rotated to far in one direction, it it's opens a slide valve and allows more pressure into the suspension to lift it up ... .same deal to lower it. If there is to much height the rollbar will be rotated to far in the other direction, so the slide valve moves the other way and allows pressure out of the suspension. Very simple in practice but probably staggeringly complex to design and implement from scratch for Citroen back in the 1940's and 50's. You need to be careful as the hydraulics are high pressure. There is a couple of thousand psi in the pump/regulator circuit. It has been done before: www.citroen-ds-id.com/ds/Landrover_with_Cit_Suspension.htmlI'm not sure how it would go on a 4wd though. You would loose all axle articulation. You see the heights work across the axle, so it would pickup any wheel that's sitting in a hole or on a hill. That's why you can drive citroens on 3wheels. seeya, Shane L. |
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Post by hillbilly54 on Aug 6, 2015 17:29:22 GMT 10
Ahhhhh!..so it's C I T R O E N, now I can sleep better knowing that. The workings of the hydraulics sounds very complex but at the same time interesting..think i'll let that project slide through to the keeper. Also, who cares about fuel costs when yer hav'n FUN!
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