Ok, here is my dilemma and I hope some of you can help me out. My wife just bought our very first TT, it is a 2013 Zinger ZT 270 RL. I only saw it for the first time yesterday when I went and picked it up at Camping World and I must admit, it is a very nice TT. I have been spending the last few HOURS reading the post here, researching online and typically going crazy and blind trying to figure out what to do, how to do it or just throw my hands up in the air and give up. I would pull my hair out, but I already did that a few years ago
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Anyway, SHE has a 2010 Chevy Avalanche and it has a Reese WD hitch on it with sway bars and we also have the Electronic Brake on it as well. Yesterday when I went and picked it up, I had to tow it home which was about an hour away. When I was running anywhere from 35-45 mph, it towed fine, but once I got on the Interstate, the TT wanted to dance all over the road. We also have a 27' JAYCO Eagle that I have pulled with this truck and same hitch and it pulled fantastic behind the Chevy, but the Zinger was like trying to Dance With The Stars!! Any recommendations on what may be the problem? I placed the chains from the sway bars in the same link as the Jayco, the 5th link down.
Also, I have seen recommendations for certain TV Wall Mounts, looked at some of the links for them on this Forum and am even more confused than before I started. She wants to put a 32" TV in the living area and mount it to the wall, but my questions are ... will the studs hold a 32" TV? She also wants to put a 19" TV in the bedroom, same questions as above... and if so, I would like to find one that I can dismount the TV's for traveling.
What kind, if any maintenance, preparation should I do to the TT before we hit the highway? As I stated before, we have a JAYCO also, but it got broke into and trashed, but we only used it very few times as she wants something that we can evacuate and stay in IF we get hit with another hurricane (such as Katrina did us), so I guess you can say we are newbies to camping.
As I work on the Mississippi River, when we went on vacation, we always stayed in hotels, but now, we want to start traveling and camping on my days off the boat. It is mind boggling what I have to learn about TT's. I can shove 3 football fields full of barges up and down the river, but this is blowing me away .... someone .. anyone ... everyone PLEASE help me out.
Also, what size generator should I get to power the TT when we have no electricity, like we did after Katrina. I know that I will have many more questions, so please be kind with replies
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Thanks
Towboater and Wife