What Have You Towed With Your Comanche?

[Goose]

I've used my 88 longbed to pull my 16ft aluminum boat, my little 4x6 trailer, friends seadoos, etc. What I'm wanting to do is know if it would reliably haul a 14ft camper or a car hauler with something like a Suzuki samurai on it.

[JeepcoMJ]

Tow dolly with the Sammy might work, or a featherlight trailer with brakes.

 

I have towed an alloy 4 place snowmobile trailer, Cherokees, liberties, random assorted cars, tractors, and more....on tow dollies or small trailers. But I don't think I would Want a car trailer behind one.

[87manche1]

I have towed an xj with my old xj with a car trailer and it was scary braking was the worst. Pulled oktho

[jimoshel]

Never towed anything but I once pushed a Boeing 747 with dead batteries and needed a push to start. :doh:

[mnkyboy]

I used to tow with my XJ then one day I decided it was a bad ideas and bought a real truck.

 

[xjrev10]

Most I ever towed was a 6X10 trailer with a ATV. I didn't have a real receiver hitch, just a bumper hitch.

[Goose]

What's the towing cap on these?

[jimoshel]

With a class 1 hitch they are rated for a GTW of 2,000 lbs. This is the bumper hitch. With a class lll hitch they are rated for a GTW of 5,000 lbs. This is the receiver type hitch. There are other factors to be taken into consideration but those are the factory max recommendations.

[Goose]

Will the tow dolly still be an option if the rear end of the samurai I'm towing had welded gears?

[jimoshel]

I see know reason why not. In fact with welded gears it might just help it track. But I'm sure there will be experts pipe in with their oplnlons.

[jpnjim]

I've made 8 or 10 50 mile trips pulling a landscape trailer full of parts, axles, engines, transmissions, etc.

Lightest load was probably around 2500,

heaviest around the trailer's max of 4k.

^^not so great without trailer brakes.

 

With a 5k lb U-haul receiver hitch.

[Dirteatr717]

Pulled my ~3,600# Camaro home on a uhaul trailer with hydraulic brakes, it was a pretty easy drive so no major hills or stop and go traffic but my truck handled it alright! Also towed Cherokee_chiefs 2dr XJ shell to the scrapper on a snowmobile trailer :D

[jpdriver1]

 

moving day --- glad she's a metric tonne

[dfreeman616]

i've used both xj's and mj's to tow other xj's and mj's with. i've always used my tow dolly. the only problem i ever had was when the mj i was towing with my mj blew out the c-clip in the d35 and sent the axle shaft/drum/wheel flying off the road in some trees. it took about 45 minutes to find it, and some "interesting" methods to get it all going down the road the next 50 miles home.

 

would have been nice if the guy i bought it from mentioned he hadn't filled the diff back up when he had the cover off.

[conker]

Couple hundred lbs of scrap metal ocassionally

 

A 12 foot John boat in the summer + gear.

[87MJTIM]

I once towed a small popup camper 200 round trip to hills in WV. The last 4 were a jeep trail with approx. 2000 ft of gain.

[ParadiseMJ]

I do NOT have an MT.

 

Around town/county.

 

2 yards of river rock

1 yard of pre-mix concrete (I may have exceeded the 5K limit)

 

Long distance:

 

My 16' foot canoe trailer with 2 canoes and enough gear and firewood for 8 people camping for 2 weeks. Not all THAT heavy but cumbersome w/no trailer brakes. Slow and easy.

 

Not towing, but hauling 10 60# sacks of concrete and about another 600# of lumber. If I had loaded it correctly it may not have sagged so much. Most of the concrete was towards the rear end. Hey, I ain't never said I was no Alan Einstein!

[Eagle]

I've towed a Comanche longbed (complete) on a tow dolly behind my shortbed MJ. That one was a piece of cake.

 

I also hauled a partially stripped (but the body and drive train -- the heavy stuff -- were all intact) MJ on a flatbed car hauler intended for a much larger/longer vehicle than an XJ behind the shortbed MJ. That tow was across very hilly terrain from Massachusetts down to Connecticut -- and it was raining. We made it, but I wouldn't recommend it as a routine practice.

[terrawombat]

I used to tow with my XJ then one day I decided it was a bad ideas and bought a real truck.

 

 

Uhm...story?

[mnkyboy]

 

 

Uhm...story?

 

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1065399&highlight=xj+rolled

 

[mountainman]

Thanks for the story.

 

I towed a vw bus full of swap meet parts from vegas to LA. It weighed around 3200 total. Used a towbar. cruised 80 like it wasnt back there. Also towed another bus acrossed town 2200ish lb load. Same deal.. no issue at all.

[JeepComanche89]

With my dads cherokee I tow a 12 ft landscape trailer with commercial equipment in the summer. I have towed another cherokee, and nissan pickup. Also a 12 ft light duty dump trailer a few times. couple times with leaves, another couple with scrap metal. The dump trailer was pretty heavy, made for some interesting trips along with xj brakes

[camjeep3]

I hooked a heavy dual axle trailer up to the truck empty.... It didnt want to stop. but my brakes sucked at the time. i only ever had a 12 foot utility trailer with wood or a couple atvs... nothing more. dad had it on the bumpstops once with the bed FULL of dirt lol. tough trucks your biggest limiting factor is brakes though. IMO of course

[Bornindesert]

I used the MJ to trailer hay to the auction and hay customers for almost 10 years. Average loads of hay ran around 3,000 lbs with the heaviest load just under 3,600 lbs plus the trailer weight. The trailer was a heavy duty single axle 8x14. It was a great set-up, with the 4wd in low you could get in and out of some tight barn yards and maneuver it in reverse. Just gotta take it easy on the roads which was never a problem in rural Indiana.

[flint54]

A 2500 lb Kubota tractor on a 1500 lb flatbed trailer. I've got rear disc brakes, dual

booster mod, MT springs, and won't do that again.