Ok, Lets us see your Rig

Jethro I agree with Brisk you need a higher hitch or a WD Hitch, love the rock crawler

 

Old school tow rig -




So far I've added 6" lift, 35's, 4.56's, rear Detroit & front L/S and a rear sway bar. Soon I'll be giving the interior a facelift with front bucket seats and an OE tach cluster. The big future plans are for a 454 and an NV4500.

 

Yeah, the picture makes that look kinda funky. It's not as bad as it looks-

This is my hitch-

As you can see it, it's adjusted as high as it'll go.

About 16.5" to the center of the ball-


And about 16.5" to the center of the reciever too-


Soo, I can't really get it any higher. Unless I flipped it over, but I don't think it's meant to be used that way. Plus with the Firestone air bags, which aren't "aired up" in the picture, it's even better.

 

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Jethro the base for your pintle hook is made to be used for either a drop or a raise so it can be turned over with no trouble to raise the trailer up and another way is to not drive the crawler up so far to the trailer nose but keep it back so more weight is on the trailer axles and not the tongue of the trailer.

 

The crawler is where it needs to be to have any decent tounge weight. I understand the physics and know how to load my trailer. Been doin it for awhile.:doah:

If the hitch was designed to be used both ways, thats fine....but two things make me wonder.

1) It came bolted together like that.
2) Why isn't there a gusset on both the top and bottom?

If I flip it over, the gusset is at the top, not at the bottom. In this application, isn't a gusset more effective in compression rather than tension? In tension, all the force is against the welds holding the gusset on. In compression, the gusset is actually providing most of the support. Maybe it's not a big thing, but I'd rather run it that way.

 

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KidJethro, I understand your worry about the gusset and if you look at some web sites as I just did you will see that they list them with either a drop or raise and they would have the gusset on top at least the ones that come with it in the raised position. I think the gusset is a fine idea as it adds extra strength to the item but a lot of them don't seem to think they need them and they probably don't but it always seems that you will find someone who's has broken and find out they overloaded the thing just to save a buck and figure they can get away with it. One other thing where do you do your rock crawling?

 

Yeah you can flip the hitch over. Everyone I know who has one has it flipped over b/c the Equipment trailers they tow sit so high (most are like 20-23in to the top of the ball when level.) Also in my experiance trailers pull better when the tongue is slightly raised instead of slightly low.

Im not saying you dont know what you are doing just giving you some advise from my experiance. That is what this site is about right?waytogo

Also what kind of trailer is that?? it looks very stout

 

Alright. I'll give it a shot.

Where do I do my rock crawling? hehe, wherever. I've been to Fordyce, Hollister Hills, and a bunch of places around here. Next month my club is having a run at the Hammers in Johnson Valley. I go wherever I can. imp:

Advice taken. Thank you.

Trailer is a 20' PJ. 18' flat/2' dovetail. 2 7k-lb axles. All the good $h!t pretty much.

 

Where in the world did you ever hear this?

I worked at a fuel terminal unloading tanker ships of #2 fuel oil and then delivering that fuel to the retail customers. Hauled millions of gallons of the stuff, never heard of adding anything to it like you say. In fact the only thing we did was to strip the water off the bottoms of the storage tanks when it reached a certain level.

You're right that bad fuel will harm an engine but with the filters and water separators on modern trucks it's unlikely that bad fuel will ever get to the engine. Alge clogs filters and shuts the engine down long before any bad fuel gets to it.

I've personally experienced alge twice in 24 years, once when a buddy gave me a 55 gallon drum of fuel, I put some in my diesel Rabbit and didn't make it a block before it shut down. Found out that the fuel was about 5 years old.
The next time was on a yacht that had auxilary tanks that hadn't been used in years, that engine shut down within 5 minutes after I switched tanks. Switching back didn't help since the filters were already plugged.

My point is: that's why the manufacturers of any vehicle/engine system installs filters and water seperators. If they are serviced on a regular basis then we don't have to be so anal about fuel.

Old Trucker

 

My ride!



Better pic of bed stripe:

 

hmmm.......nah, on second thought, this aint worth responding to.:doah: Tell that to a person who has ruined thier injectors because of bad/old fuel.

 

My rig looks a little different since the last pic was uploaded so here she is nowopcorn:

 

my junk

 

My former rig is in the Gallery section ...

F350 Ford 6.0 automatic 4x4 crew cab dually black with chrome goodies ...3.73 rear

 

You guys got some nice rigs! Here's mine.

 

Very nice rigs everyone.

Here is mine.

 

Here is a picture of my 97 Dodge 5 speed twin turbo'd tow rig...

Rick

 

1996 Chevy 3500 6.5TD 4"exhaust, reprogramed computer, and AFE air filter. Kenwood stereo. 262K miles 33' Trailer 11k loaded.

 

Yes!!! Another 6.5!! Welcome!!waytogo