Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
..............But taking weight off the drive axle means that in some road conditions, usually wet/snow/ice, the drive axle hasn't got enough grip and it might wheelspin. ...........
My 142m had a tag axle ( electro-mech), it had a habit of slowley lowering it's self although I rarely ever ran without a loaded trailer or without a trailer.
On one occasion I took the unit home, one Saturday, after a long late haul back from Italy. Parked on the grass opposite the cottage I was living in on the edge of Gt Wakering Common. It rained heavily through the night and Sunday morning I was greeted with the site of the old Scanny nearly up to her rims in mud . No amount of back and forth would shift her even with 14 litres of V8 and 400 bhp .
To my embarrassment and £5o lighter Wakering Services came out with no less than a twin boom wrecker to pull me 15 bloody feet to the tarmac with a chain .
but at least I got back down to Dover that evening.
Col.
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