Towing two horses through the country

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Small improvements:

- replaced the rear sway bar bushings with energy suspension Polyurethane parts
- replaced the front outer sway bar bushings with moog parts.

the front pieces had been badly worn,swollen and cracked, the rear ones had been made out of black rubber and I could compress them with my bare fingers.
The red poly ones doesn't compress at all.

Next week is trail riding again, 500 miles round-trip. We will see how this change in setup will affect the handling.
I found a thicker front Hellwig sway bar at amazon, maybe this would reduce the stability while driving from passing semis.

[Rickf1985]

I think you mean "increase" stability.

[eXodus]

lol    yes, reduce stability would be bad

[eXodus]

yesterday I replaced the grad 5 hitch bolts with grad 8 and torqued them (120ft-nm)

this should give me about 16.000lbs more capacity before the connection from the hitch to the frame fails. A total of 107.000lbs of shear capacity:P

I wasn't too much concerned about the connection, more about the age of the bolts. They are all more then 20 years old, kinda rusty and a grad 5 bolt tends to fail after 1 Million cycles.
If you count every braking/ acceleration event as cycle, I think I would still have left a couple of hundred thousand cycles, but you never know.

The Grad 8 are good for 2 Million cycles and that I shouldn't get that in my ownership time of the MH.

[eXodus]

they sway got better. More easy to drive, not perfect but better.

I did install a new one handle level faucet for the bathroom. The old one was leaking.
Looks nice and works like a champ.
No more water temperature mixing with two knobs anymore. Just open and go.

Started to work on the TV-Antenna setup. I got a used HD-receiver which I can use my old 24 Inch TFT Computer Screen as a TV.
Now I kneed to built something to attach it to the wall and the replace the amplifier outlet. The one in mine is dead.
But a new one is only $17...  I also ordered the Wingman attachment for the old Wingard Batwing antenna.

Maybe I get some better signals.

10 more weeks to before the summer trip.

[eXodus]

one more week to go. horses are registered, travel documents are nearly complete. Trailer axles fresh greased and brakes are all good.

The motorhome got a new hydroboost and main brake cylinder.
first weight was nearly perfect with all water tanks full and hay for 14 days only a couple of pounds under the gcwr. This state will not be normal since we are normally travel with water max 1/3 and the horses eat about 30 -40 pounds of hay a day.