Thread: Range rover towing

HR do make a angled tongue (to suit load leveller bars) as I had one on my old 88 RRC. I found mine second hand on evilbay/gumtree IIRC.

My van had this sort of attachment for the gooseneck. The bars popped into the holes. Image from Caravan World

Thanks guys, Ill have to research and ring Hayman reese about the tongues, I have to use the heavier duty load levellers as the van has a 190kg ball weight.

My rear bar is an early ARB, so I am told, and has an angled slot for the tongue. The tongue I had was far too low, and I had a local engineering firm construct me a new tongue that gave me greater ground clearance when towing. I also modded the camper and my regular box trailer to suit.

Originally Posted by Wants a Rangie

Thanks guys, Ill have to research and ring Hayman reese about the tongues, I have to use the heavier duty load levellers as the van has a 190kg ball weight.

Put all the beer down the back of the van.

DL

Originally Posted by Wants a Rangie

Thanks guys, Ill have to research and ring Hayman reese about the tongues, I have to use the heavier duty load levellers as the van has a 190kg ball weight.

The rear leveller should just lift the tail back up. 190kgs is well within the ball downweight isn't it. I'm pretty sure the handbook in mine states 250kg tongue weight (I'll need to verify). Hook it up and do a few laps of the block and see if everything self levels like it should

seeya,
Shane L.

You should be able to get the tongue from ARB, I know that I've had about 3 around the place over the years.

At one stage I wanted a higher ball heght so acquired a generic tongue and heated the bend with Oxy and bent it down so the ball mounting was parallel to the ground. I seem to remember that the hole was very close to the correct position but not perfect so I had to pull the tongue back a little to insert the pin. The down side was that I couldn't open the tailgate without damaging it with the higher trailer coupling.

Thanks for the replies.
Im not entirely confident that the rear leveller actually still operates in my rangie these days, I've got the correct tongue that came with the bar but want to use this style load leveller and an adjustable height tongue with it. Im unsure if Im able to adjust the cams enough on the ball to get the correct angle as the tongue will be right angled unlike the ARB tongue.