From: wolverine01@charter.net   
      
   On 7/18/2025 12:00 PM, George.Anthony wrote:   
   >   
   > We left the Seattle area this past Monday headed toward Utah and made it as   
   > far as LaGrande,Oregon. Then the bad news. Leaving the RV park, something   
   > broke on the towed vehicle base plate. When I glanced at the rearview   
   > camera I could see the truck swaying left and right. Uh oh!   
   >   
   > One of the tow bar connections was hanging down almost touching the ground.   
   > Disconnected the truck from the motorhome (with some difficulty) and headed   
   > back to the RV park. We were able to drive the truck so we found a local   
   > dealer who got started on repairs right away. However the old parts   
   > availability bug bit so we will be here a while.   
   >   
   > Nothing against LaGrand but there are better places we could be stranded.   
   > More to come as information becomes available.   
      
   Sorry to hear about this, George.  Would love to see images of the   
   damage and more info if you get any since I also pull a TOAD.  That must   
   of been a real shock seeing that.   
      
   I'm also wondering if you have any braking on the toad and if it either   
   didn't work, or the emergency cable just didn't get pulled out?  I was   
   thinking about checking the torque on the brackets I installed on the   
   Bronco, but didn't want to break the lock tight loose doing it.   
   Probably still worth putting a torque wrench on them just to make sure   
   they're still good.  I know you said yours broke somehow, and I should   
   of also given a good look at the welds on the pieces to make sure no   
   cracks appeared after the 4000 miles I drug it around.   
      
   Good luck getting it fixed!   
      
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