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Rebuild Roadmaster Tow Bar
Just got my complete Roadmaster Tow Bar rebuild kit from E-Trailercom kit was $38 bucks plus shipping for kit#RM-910003-60 it has pins springs bushings bolts fiber washers, bolts and most all the hardware to make it like new. Tow Bar Roadmaster 5250
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Art, do you know if they have a rebuild kit for other models? Mine is a Blackhawk. -Ron
Jeff and Lindsay
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Ron etrailer.com has a repair kit Part # RM910003-85 Price $32.62
Craig
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Did not know about rebuild kits… thanks.
Seems like one could powder coat the tow bar to match the bus while rebuilding the mechanicals…
Might as well go all out.
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We bought our Blue Ox tow bar in May of 2014 when we bought the coach. We’ve been at the Florida RV Super Show a couple of times since, tried to get the Blue Ox guys to rebuild ours … but they were always overbooked.
Looked on the Blue Ox website and noticed they were located not too far off I-80 in Pender, Nebraska and we were taking I-80 back to Wisconsin from Cheyenne, WY. So I called Blue Ox and talked to them about a rebuild as we drove by. We’d heard they had a really nice RV park adjacent to the factory. Pender said we have a location in Lincoln, why don’t you stop there for the rebuild.
So we made an appointment and stopped in Lincoln. When the tech came out to the coach to look at the tow bar he took one look and said, “I won’t rebuild that tow bar. The welds are rusting and they are likely coming apart. You need a new tow bar.”
I’m not a mil-spec certified welder nor am I a metallurgical engineer. But I’ve been around enough to know that the welds on my well built less than five year old tow bar are NOT going to fail and cause a catastrophic event for us on the road. The rocks, stones, grit, gravel, etc. from the road had sand blasted the tow bar, removing the power coating over time, and there was surface rust on the tow bar and its welds.
But my co-pilot had heard enough. She quickly said, “OMG! It’s a good thing we didn’t lose the car before we got here. Do you have these in stock?” I instantly knew we were going to buy a NEW towbar TODAY!
The tech quoted us a price. I bawked a little, he then offered to give me a trade in on the old tow bar. I then bawked again and said I had to check something out and I’d come inside the shop and let him know. I went in the coach and called BlueOxTowBars.com which is an independent retailer of BlueOx products in Burnsville, MN. I had recently bought a new power cable, some additional pins from them, and a tow bar cover from them. I was able to talk to the owner on the phone quickly and he quoted me a price for a new towbar that was a couple of bucks higher than the BlueOx tech had. So I thanked him and went to the tech’s office. Before I could say anything he asked if would take a “factory second” … never sold, never installed, but probably had a flaw in the power coating, had been pulled during quality control, and the price was lower yet. I agreed to that.
The tech took the box with the new tow bar to the coach, unpacked it, but wouldn’t “install it” (liability), so I did that. He did explain to me the new design and some advantages over the old style. He took my old towbar with him and we walked to back of the building where the credit card machine was located. As he was generating an invoice I asked if our “old” cover (which I had bought about four or five months ago) would fit on the new towbar and he said “No”, then walked over to a bin, pulled a new cover package out of the bin, and handed it to me. No charge.
So … we left Lincoln and headed for a Council Bluffs, Iowa casino to meet with Judy and Dan Hilger. I’m sure the co-pilot slept more soundly knowing the tow bar wasn’t going to come apart and end up in the oncoming lane of traffic. I sleep just as soundly with the new tow bar as I did with the original one.
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