I'm looking for some hand holding here. I need to pick up a very small car, slightly less than 1400 pounds curb weight, and I've grown paranoid about my , appears to be original, rear torsion bars.
I have 4 shims all around on the rear, and 32 and 1/2" ride height if not 33".
Do I need to sweat this?
Are you flat towing the car or will there be weight on the coach? If weight, how much?
I'm using my motorcycle trailer, and I plan on placing the minimum amount of weight on the coach. It's a rear engined car so that works in my favor.
Somehow I have in my mind a maximum tongue weight of 300# for my coach. But I always plan for the worst.
300 pounds should not be an issue. I would fill the potable water tank to help compensate.
OK, you have my curiosity up-- what are you towing? Fiat 500?
Potable water tank is always full. I use a meat syringe to measure in the appropriate amount of bleach and use the tank up once a month.
1968 S.I.A.T.A. Spring built on the Fiat 850 Chassis. Any distance farther than that car can take us, we use the coach and it has room for the dog. I wanted to be on Warm springs, GA right now but satellite imagery showed that local travel with the coach was not practical, especially the Little White House.
I worried myself into wondering about catastrophic torsilastic torsion bar failure. Once the car is fully serviced I plan on flat towing it.
Fiat 850 chassis is rear engine with a transaxle of some sort. I guess you have verified (with who?) that it is flat towable?
I rented a Fiat 850 Spyder for 6 months (in 1972) while stationed on Guam during the SEA fiasco. It was what the servicemen referred to as a Guam Bomb...cuz the rental cars were in such bad shape that they frequently self destructed. I lucked out...the one I had never failed to produce every one of its 50 screaming horses for the time I had it. Fun little car!
Here is a photo of one-same color but not ours.(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhSn5GP2gT09SOTcnMuYEa0trIoJ3mTiR8AXDsVLogMsUFYlp3GQ)
If the gears in the transaxle dip into the oil for lubrication, I'll take the chance that it's flat towable.