Re: My Scout & Trailers

[tsm1@domain.elided (Tom Mandera)]

>I've gotta say, dude, this is a bad idea.
>ripped off fuel line, it's be cool to watch from a distance. However, people
>close to it (including yourself) might not get a kick out of an IHC firebomb
>I might just put a filler nozzle pump on it and fill manually.

I *was* joking. ;)  But I do like the thought of filling the gas tank on the
trailer, and rigging a pump system to *transfer* fuel.

Maybe an electric fuel pump on the trailer, and some type of hose coiled up
in the front section (where I'd have to build a "bulkhead") that'll reach
from the trailer to the Scout (or, more typically, to a friend's Bronco...).

This would have the added benefit of "storing" an electric fuel pump should
I ever need one when I'm hours away from the nearest NAPA...

>Or, if you're really set on the fuel transfer line, go with a "pintle hook"
>system. You see them on military vehicles and combination dump trucks. It's
>a hoop on the trailer side and a 3/4 circle on the vehicle side. A piece
>trailer some kick ass articulation on the trail.

Pintle hitch would be the way I'd go.  Specifically because of the
articulation.  

How am I supposed to tow a ball-hitched trailer up Surprise Canyon when I go
to visit Hofstetter?  ;)

hey, it would be a Scout trailer... it *has* to be able to go wherever the
Scout goes.

-Tom