Thanks Larry, I really enjoy these videos and have learned a lot about truck safety through viewing them. If I line up my stars to buy a Summit Hauler, my current RV has a Gooseneck Gen-Y hitch that we absolutely love. We started out with a G.N. adapter in 2008 and experienced all of the chucking that wrecks your neck. When we later switched over to an airbag pin box & 5W hitch, we were in heaven. After experiencing every different type of RV hitch 5 coaches later, we were very delighted that our new Gen-Y pin box performed very well. One advantage, it has no air bag and is less affected by temperature differences, torsion rubber just works once broke-in. However, this old person had to hire out installing the 197-pound pin box, lol. I want to affirm how much better the airbrakes are on the Summit Hauler than my Chevy 3/4-ton 6.6L gas truck brakes. The last hour of our trip to FL was met with ~55 stoplights of which we had to stop at nearly all of them, about half were at highway speed! I found myself using just my brake controller to stop near the end of that hour because my truck brakes started pulsing in a way I could not understand. I needed an engine brake in the worst way not to mention the positives of desiring air brakes. I will keep working on Santa, you keep working on making new videos! Cheers, David Knapp
Thanks Larry, I really enjoy these videos and have learned a lot about truck safety through viewing them. If I line up my stars to buy a Summit Hauler, my current RV has a Gooseneck Gen-Y hitch that we absolutely love. We started out with a G.N. adapter in 2008 and experienced all of the chucking that wrecks your neck. When we later switched over to an airbag pin box & 5W hitch, we were in heaven. After experiencing every different type of RV hitch 5 coaches later, we were very delighted that our new Gen-Y pin box performed very well. One advantage, it has no air bag and is less affected by temperature differences, torsion rubber just works once broke-in. However, this old person had to hire out installing the 197-pound pin box, lol.
I want to affirm how much better the airbrakes are on the Summit Hauler than my Chevy 3/4-ton 6.6L gas truck brakes. The last hour of our trip to FL was met with ~55 stoplights of which we had to stop at nearly all of them, about half were at highway speed! I found myself using just my brake controller to stop near the end of that hour because my truck brakes started pulsing in a way I could not understand. I needed an engine brake in the worst way not to mention the positives of desiring air brakes.
I will keep working on Santa, you keep working on making new videos! Cheers, David Knapp
Thank you very much for tuning in. I very much appreciate it!! Let me know if I can help in any way.
What is the gearing on the rear end ?