Re: [omc-boats] 1967 Johnson 19ft Surfer Buick V8 is back again in Nebraska

This reminds me of a nice money saving tip I learned recently and don't recall if I shared. When I picked up my Ford Freestyle 8 months back, I was upset that the local hitch house wanted $220 for a hitch vs. the $130 I paid them for the one on my Windstar. First he blamed steel prices, then he blamed the Freestar design. Unconvinced he wasn't trying to pay for his fancy new building in 1/2 the time, I went online and found a place called etrailer.com. Turns out the Freestar design is very friendly -- hitch mounting holes are already there and they even put in access holes to get the nuts inside the frame rails. Living in SE Michigan (where we get 2" of road salt for every 1" of snow), this is fantastic because the holes are e-coated and painted vs. freshly drilled with exposed bare metal to rust. End result is etrailer.com shipped to my door for $117 total (includes shipping) and I had it on the vehicle in 10-15 minutes. Something you might want to think about the next time you are in the market for a hitch!
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  Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [omc-boats] 1967 Johnson 19ft Surfer Buick V8 is back again in Nebraska

  I guessing here, but back in the sixities your typical full-size car or station wagon was body on frame construction. Most of the trailer hitches sold back then bolted into the frame and the bumper. Most of those typical hitches had a 200 lb tongue weight rating. Also even though that's the trailer's (3150 lb) capacity, the 19-ft hulls weighed in around 2100-2200 lbs, so they aon't be far off the 10% mark.

  But you are right, way to many rigs are swaying down the road because the tongue weight is too light.

  Lee Shuster
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    From: Andy Perakes
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    Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:19 PM
    Subject: Re: [omc-boats] 1967 Johnson 19ft Surfer Buick V8 is back again in Nebraska

    What I find most interesting about this is the trailer tag which states 3150 lb capacity and 200 lb tongue load -- normal rule of thumb is tongue weight = 10% of loaded trailer weight. Even old trailering literature I've read uses the 10% rule, but obviusly Johnson never did....I wonder why? Do any of you who have the Johnson trailers have troubles with fishtailing?
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