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Hey this is what I got up to this weekend and I don’t see any other pictures anywhere so I just wanted to share mine. Didn’t do too bad other than needing to stay in 3rd for anything other than a flat or downhill. Also have to plan way ahead for braking. Overall wouldn’t recommend it unless you wanna take 2hrs to make a 45min trip and :furious3: yourself when you pass a MTO truck. Basically DOT for the Americans. But in a pinch it pulled through. 

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Leaf springs are too sagged in the longbed for me to chance it but I have done it with the ZJ. Pulled it 450km in total, over two 2000m passes 80km apart with a valley dropping to 1300m between them. Its a lot of weight for a 4.0 to drag up a double-digit grade but she did it. 

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But knowing now what I know about U-Haul’s maintenance program and how unlikely you are to get a trailer that actually has functioning brakes, I definitely wouldn’t recommend doing it again. I have a real truck for doing that now. 
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An MJ isn’t much of a load to haul and you for sure don’t need a 1-ton to do it, but for how cheap it was to get a vehicle that’s actually rated to tow that sort of load it’s definitely not worth the risk. 

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I've towed 5k lbs with the Comanche once, it did it but it was about the limit.

 

A few weeks ago we almost used the Comanche to tow an 86 Mercedes 560SL across PA on a Uhaul car trailer, but thought better of it and rented the Uhaul truck as well since we needed to carry some large stuff.  Using the Comanche would have made the 7 hour trip into a 10 hour trip.

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