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Nato Hitch workings
stageonesimmo:
Mmmmm, got to disagree there mate - I've recovered enough upside-down sankeys from the side of tarmac roads to know that if it wasn't for the swivel action I'd have been doing some side-over-side recoveries on the towing landrovers as well..............
SOP for us is to always have the swivel lock-tab unlocked - you never know.............
Range Rover Blues:
The only time you need to unlock the NATO is when you have one of the modified snakey with the big piston on top of the overrun mech, such that the eye cannot swivel. It will say on top of that piston that the pintle must be free to rotate.
EIther that or on some of the guns the eye was not on an overrun mech and as such could not swivel, also some oddball trailers.
if you have both eye and pintle free to rotate it WILL end up upside down, or on it's side. Though it's technically safe it's not adviseable.
Either one part or the other has to be able to spin, not both.
landroverkeith:
:roll: ;) think ill just put in back on the drop plate and leave it lol..... dont need it too spin anyways lol i can get stuck in the mud perfectly well without the need to tow a trailer across it lol
cheers for your help guys :clap:
stageonesimmo:
RRB,
Well spotted - I should have added that we only have locked draught-eyes, so default setting is unlocked tow-jaws as a result - there are very few trls left now with swiveling eyes so it doesn't come up that often, if at all.
Range Rover Blues:
So all the swivelling eyes have been sold off, to the likes of us :) and the newer stuff have the locked eyes? does that include the disc-braked Sankeys (wolf some people call them) and the brand new ones too.
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