Towing the jeep now legal

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Philliphastings

Thanks for your interesting post Tony.

I have been 'A' frame towing within Western Australia for the past 12 years with absolutely no problems whatsoever in terms of legality or practicality. The only area which I have just learned was not fully compliant in that state is in regard to having the A frame stamped.

I was trained to A frame vehicles in the ARA some 30 odd years ago and the Army tend to use practical solutions.

Unfortunately my towing vehicle has recently been disposed of so I'm back to trailering.

Cheers for an interesting and useful thread

Phill

Hi Phill

Good to hear there are others out there in MLU land who have also done "A" Frame towing. I am convinced there are many others who have been thinking about it, but not sure how to go about and who only needed to hear from those of us that have. It sure is a cheaper alternative to trailer hiring.

Cheers

Tony

[easo]

Thank you for the information. Its given me a fair amount of thought and now I can bring it up with the boss lady as an alternate to buying another trailer with the plus of having the Old Landie regoed again.

The only thing I can do is disconnect the rear wheel drive flanges as early rovers don't have floating axles. Might just have to remove the prop-shaft. Dunno.

I will now continue to go back and stair at your photos.

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by easo

Thank you for the information. Its given me a fair amount of thought and now I can bring it up with the boss lady as an alternate to buying another trailer with the plus of having the Old Landie regoed again.

The only thing I can do is disconnect the rear wheel drive flanges as early rovers don't have floating axles. Might just have to remove the prop-shaft. Dunno.

I will now continue to go back and stair at your photos.

Hi Easo

I am glad to be of assistance, we can have a chat by email or phone anytime and if I can be of assistance in anyway just let me know. I guess you may have to undo the drive shaft to the rear wheels, this will stop any moving parts in the transmission and transfer case saving undue wear and tear. Your series 1 Landrover brake pedal, I suspect works the same as the Jeep so it will be very simple to set up a braking system and away you go all legal.

I have a couple of long trips coming up. The Pichi Richi Troop Train Re-enactment at the end of this month and the Jamestown Air Show a couple of weeks later. I am looking forward to the trip towing my Jeep to the shows.

Cheers

Tony

[easo]

I look forward to seeing it at Corowa, I'll be there again with my Defender and ex-army workshop trailer selling junk again.

[Philliphastings]

Not junk Easo - treasure...

Cheers

Phill

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Tony - very well done. This thread is a brilliant, well researched discussion on the subject of A-Framing. It is obvious from the responses that confusion abounds amongst the readers and highlights the mish-mash of laws and regulations between each state. How can the authorities get this right when they couldn't even get the gauges of the various rail networks uniform.

This information collates all the factors surrounding this subject and I believe could/should become a document of public importance. With that in mind you could prepare spiral bound folders to disseminate to every state's motor vehicle department for their consideration. Whether they take any notice is up to them but it only takes one person to try and change or unify public policy.

This information is also very important to every car club and motoring federation as they would all have a need for A-Framing. The preparation of a small aide-memoire booklet could also be a consideration.

Anyway you could franchise this and call it The van Rhoda Australian Rules On A-Framing.

Bob

[hrpearce]

An interisting thread, the local highway patrol asked Kevin to remove the A fraim from the bull ba of his landcruiser while he was driving it home as the cop beleived it to be a danger to predistrants.