RRC Towing Limits Revisited

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Originally Posted by 350RRC

Agree with you fully Philip.

I had one of those HD towbars on my 74, the thing weighed a ton. Went to scrap because the draw bar was rusted solid in the frame of the thing.

Years later I came across a genuine LR one that is very compact and has the additional bolts to the chassis like the old HD one. It's about 1/3 the weight. Plated RR / Discovery max 4,000 kg.

The original owners manual for the 74 only mentions 4,000 kg max capacity. The old Haynes I have is the only place I've seen the emergency use 6,000 kg figure...........max speed 30km/h.

cheers, DL

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Well, it does not appear to be plated/have a plaque, but I have one of the old RRC ARB? steel rear bars with alum/alloy top cover plate and a tubed receiver hole for my solid 50 mm bar and AU 3,500kgm towball.

I just completed a trip of 1500km from Cairns to Gympie in my std Soft Dash at the maximum towing weight. And I tell you it was a bit of a struggle.

I was towing my Jag XJ6 that was full parts and garage stuff, the back of the Rangie was full as well and I had a loaded roof rack on to boot.

Cooling capacity was at its maximum and I had to keep an eye on the temp constantly especially when it came to hills. 100kmph was as fast as it would go, usually sat at 90 on the flat and down to 70 up the hills. I was pretty much at least at 3/4 throttle most of the time and in 3rd gear half the time. Probably the longest "Italian tune" up of all time.

Fuel economy was TERRIBLE. I only got 260km out of a tank of "Puma" fuel before the light was on and would usually get around 310km from Caltex or the others. So that is between 25 and 31 liters per 100.

I've got the factory tow bar that states 4000kg max and 150kg ball weight (which seams a bit light) but the book says a towing limit of 3500kg braked.

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Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Well, it does not appear to be plated/have a plaque, but I have one of the old RRC ARB? steel rear bars with alum/alloy top cover plate and a tubed receiver hole for my solid 50 mm bar and AU 3,500kgm towball.

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Just pulled one of those off my other POS. Uses the same mounting config as the old HD towbar and the new LR one, i.e. bolts to chassis rails as well as rear crossmember. Up for sale soon complete with fold out wheel carrier AND the angled bar.

Bloody heavy!

Call ARB to find out what it's rated at. Will have been engineered I imagine.

DL

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Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Well, it does not appear to be plated/have a plaque, but I have one of the old RRC ARB? steel rear bars with alum/alloy top cover plate and a tubed receiver hole for my solid 50 mm bar and AU 3,500kgm towball.

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I seem to recall that the ARB rear bar has an angled tow hitch receiver hole, requiring a special matching angled hitch and it was rated to a lower weight (2,800kg??). I would give ARB a call to confirm all this.

Cheers

Steve

Just the reference to override brakes indicates that the manual is referring to the UK as most caravans over there have override brakes.
But you do have to do a specific licence test to tow a van /trailer over a certain weight.
A complete guide to towing a caravan | RAC Drive

Regards Philip A

We have a hayman reese on a softdash and a hayman reese on a preceding hard dash

Both have a maximum 4000 kg stamped on their plates .

Both have stamped , for towing capacity details refer to owners manual .

Owners manual details were given prior .

Our 85 has a factory type but no plate and i take its maximum as 3500kg as with the others from the book.