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trevtherev

26/11/2009 at 3:25pm
Location: Suffolk
Outfit: Autocruise stargazer motorhome

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I have a Ryno mover fitted to my Bailey Champagne that weighs about 1300 kilos empty. I find that when maneuvering on softish ground the jockey wheel has a tendency to dig in, even though it is quite a wide wheel and the mover can struggle to move the van. I keep the nose weight to about 75-80 kilos

I have heard that a pneumatic tyre would improve things. Has anyone found that a change of tyre has cured or improved the problem.

old chap

26/11/2009 at 3:54pm
Location: Sitingbourne
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un fortunatly you cannot just change the wheel & tyre as a pneumatic tyre will not fit in the fork of your present jockey wheel. A pneumatic tyre is better for manouverability though But it is not advisable to buy the plastic wheel & tyre type as the tyre has been reported easy to roll of the rim during manouvers

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Vectratot

26/11/2009 at 4:09pm
Location: DURHAM
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When we bought our present van it had a pneumatic wheel and tyre already fitted, I have since replaced the tyre and tube due to slow deflation (aged) works well with my mover. It has a steel rim and I inflate it to 40lbs max, on the tyre wall it states a max of 50lbs, I have heard that a plastic type rim will not withstand these pressures, apparently they self destruct this is what I have previosly read on this forum.

johnks

26/11/2009 at 4:11pm
Location: Hampshire
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We changed our jockey wheel. Much better for manouvering. You can get one from here

Good service and price.Had it 6 months and it hasn't gone down. The one from towsure was useless. Needed blowing up once a month.

The LMX 326 should fit. Check the diameter of your existing one.

Post last edited on 26/11/2009 16:28:41

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We had an inflatable one at first and yes it improves traction and digs in less, it did deflate too easily and wore easily too. I've replaced it with a similar looking one but which is solid rubber - Towsure etc sell them and it works fine, no punctures or deflation with this!

Lassie

26/11/2009 at 6:15pm
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My OH is thinking about changing the tyre on our jockey wheel for te same reason. He had asked me to post on this subject but i forgot so thank you for raising this! I'll pass it on to him.

zara

26/11/2009 at 7:08pm
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Hi we just changed the wheel from a solid type to a inflatable one, just measure the dia of spindle bolt, width of fork sure its a standard size,them google jockey wheel, i had no problem fitting it saves buying complete jockey wheel.

michael

26/11/2009 at 8:29pm
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got one and its much better for the mover BUT,i had to remove it as is was getting stuck under the A frame and no way could i shift it to lift it into the traveling position.so am back to using the old type.one main reason is the tyre being much fatter when lowered onto the ball i could not get the wheel out.this meant taking it off again to turn the wheel round to the required travel position.

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eddie marris

26/11/2009 at 10:17pm
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I fitted one to my Senator Series 5 with no problem. It did sqeak on the fork arm but a little vasaline on the tyre wall did the trick and 2 years on it is still good.

rustyfrog

26/11/2009 at 10:33pm
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We swapped our solid wheel for a pneumatic on our last van.
It performed a lot better with the mover but I had to remove it as we kept grounding on the local speed bumps, as it would not locate properly under the A frame.

I got fed up with this and swapped again to a wider but solid type.

An acceptable compromise!

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vernon87

26/11/2009 at 10:59pm
Location: Gloucestershire
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I put the solid one back on during storage in the Winter.

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