Hi everyone,
Bear with me as I've only been caravaning 3 years and I have a problem that must be easy to fix, but I just can't believe it's easy to solve.
With our 1st van, we had a ALKO chassis under an Adria. Lovely Reich mover. No problem getting it up our 1:6 drive and turning through a right angle to park it.
Then we bought a Xplore which has the other chassis (can't think of the name off hand). The dealer moved the mover from one van to the other. It's been nothing but a problem for the past two seasons with slippage. They have adjusted it two or three times, but still a fight to get it up the drive.
We came back a couple of weeks ago from the last trip out this year and decided I need to reslove the problem once and for all.
I now have a theory and hope someone can either tell me it's rubbish or correct.
I think the ALKO chassis suspension moves up and down, so the mover stays roughly the same distance from the tyre.
The Xplore chassis seems to have a cantilever system which means that as the van goes up the hill, the wheel moves away from the mover with the weight distribution change - it is reversed up the drive. The dealer always adjusts the mover position when there is next to nothing in it.
So, if my theory is right, how close can the mover be moved to the tyre (currently about 1/2 inch) before fouling it in normal use. If my theory is wrong, any better ideas.
Bear with me as I've only been caravaning 3 years and I have a problem that must be easy to fix, but I just can't believe it's easy to solve.
With our 1st van, we had a ALKO chassis under an Adria. Lovely Reich mover. No problem getting it up our 1:6 drive and turning through a right angle to park it.
Then we bought a Xplore which has the other chassis (can't think of the name off hand). The dealer moved the mover from one van to the other. It's been nothing but a problem for the past two seasons with slippage. They have adjusted it two or three times, but still a fight to get it up the drive.
We came back a couple of weeks ago from the last trip out this year and decided I need to reslove the problem once and for all.
I now have a theory and hope someone can either tell me it's rubbish or correct.
I think the ALKO chassis suspension moves up and down, so the mover stays roughly the same distance from the tyre.
The Xplore chassis seems to have a cantilever system which means that as the van goes up the hill, the wheel moves away from the mover with the weight distribution change - it is reversed up the drive. The dealer always adjusts the mover position when there is next to nothing in it.
So, if my theory is right, how close can the mover be moved to the tyre (currently about 1/2 inch) before fouling it in normal use. If my theory is wrong, any better ideas.
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