Issue Date; Towing A Vehicle - Fleetwood American Dream WIDE BODY 1998 Owner's Manual

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TOWING A VEHICLE
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Your motor home is equipped with one-half of the eqllipment required
to tow a trailer, automobile dolly, or other towed load.
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Chain Loop
Chain Bracket
Typical Hitch System Components
Receiver Tube
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Weight-CarrYing Hitch
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Head Assembly '_ ' /
The equipment supplied with your motor home is called the "hitch
receiver." This component is attached to the motor home frame. The square
tube opening "receives" any of a wide variety of hitch head assemblies. The
"hitch head" is the component that includes the pitch ball.
Hitch head assemblies are available in both "Weight-Distributing"
(load-equalizing) and "Weight-Carrying" types. A weight-distributing
hitch uses spring bars attached to the trailer tongue A-frame assembly to
transfer some of the traile(tongue weight to both motor home axles.
A weight-carrying hitch head assembly does not use spring bars. All
ofthetongue weight of the trailer bears down on the liitch assembly which
loads the motor home rear axle. For this reason, the maximum load you can
__ tow with a weight-carrying hitch head assembly is limited.
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