On her new trailer, with heater, soft top, wipers, and ready to pick up for the weekend! I might actually get some time to enjoy a ride and make some videos! 120 mile round trip coming right up!
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After it was loaded on the trailer the dealer "mentioned" the fact that we shouldn't really go to fast with the soft top. Even with shrink wrap wrapped around the cab it was pretty much 45 MPH over two passes leading a convoy of pissed off drivers who wanted to do 75. Must of pulled over 50 times to let people pass.
I must be drunker than I think...the photo above appears to me too be a hard top?
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Actually it is soft sides, not top. My bad. Trailering did indeed tend to over inflate the cab. The dealer wrapped shrink wrap around the cab. It helped, but I could see the air pressure forcing the door frames so we took it easy. I'll find out about speed once I get tires on it I guess.
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I trailer my 700 with the soft doors at highway sppeds. I roll the windows down and put a bungie around the pillar to hold the door frames closed and let her rip.
Thanks for the input on this. It looks like in my case the act of trailering forces air into the cab thru the front causing an overpressure in the interior. At 55 the upper door frames were really trying to deflect outward. After the P1K was trailered, wrapped, and our gealer gave us the bad news, my son who is an amazing diagnostic mechanic, commented this thing is giong to overpressure when we tow it. We need to open or crack some side panels.
The bummer is that this unit is our on call transport to do some pretty remote telecom/ repeater HVAC service. That necessitates trailering, usually during the winter when towing with an open panel (s) is the last thing you want to do. Since road spray, snow slush and gravel, coats trailers during the winter, I was contemplating some kind of custom cover/bra deal to anyway. Another science project incoming
The bummer is that this unit is our on call transport to do some pretty remote telecom/ repeater HVAC service. That necessitates trailering, usually during the winter when towing with an open panel (s) is the last thing you want to do. Since road spray, snow slush and gravel, coats trailers during the winter, I was contemplating some kind of custom cover/bra deal to anyway. Another science project incoming
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