I just found and read this tread. just wanted to add, that I have one of these tow bars and used it a couple months ago to tow 2 different vehicles. First one was a cucv, towed it 14 miles from old house to new house. cucv had all drive shafts out, it towed beautifully behind my 98 ford f150, even up the huge long hill. The second vehicle was a BTR152 russain armoured personel carrier. it weighs about 18k is a 6x6, towed it with my big ol elmo 5 ton truck, same thing, no problems at all. thats probably the fastest that btr has been on the road in,,,well forever. about 55 mph or so (thats my story and i am sticking to it). there were several turns and a real sharp turn into the driveway and around the yard to position it in the barn. Tow bar worked great. One thing i noted that your smaller inner legs are hollow? mine are solid steel. not sure if that made a difference or not.