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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by TIM Z
Holy **** you FUBAR'd that frame !


Damn Cody youve hauled a lot of cool stuff, and looked good doin it too haha!

Did the 5th wheel camper have a lift kit?

Now that this is a towing pic-***** thread i'll have to dig some out.
No it was stock height but it did have the axles under spring. My Dmax was stock height in the rear just with 35s so it wasn't that high.
Originally Posted by silver-mod-o
Lol, put it on a frame machine and it straightened out easy since it just went straight down. Learned a lesson there though.
That's why a good set of shocks is very important to towing heavy loads. The higher dampening rate of a quality adjustable shock would've lessoned the hit the frame took from that big bump. Also another reason if you're going to tow heavy to use a load distributing hitch so the load actually puts some downward pressure forward of the bag mount.
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 08:14 AM
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 09:26 AM
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What happened to me wasn't a result of bad shocks or the wrong hitch... It was 100% my dumb *** putting too much air in the bags. It would have happened with the best shocks and the best hitch. That bag kit was intended fr a duramax, it's capacity was WWWAAYYYYYY more than the truck's even with a 5th wheel. I could has gotten by with about 1/2 as much air and never had an issue.
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by silver-mod-o



Mine does that with a heavy trailer, no air bags..
Freaked me out the first time.
but take the trailer off and the gap closes back up.

Some kinda weak frame!!

I dont pull anything with that much tounge weight anymore, not with out a distribution hitch anyway!
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 10:29 AM
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Don't have any pictures but the two heavyest loads that have been on mine since I bought it. Where my buddys S-10 on another buddys trailer that has a diamond plate floor and wind block on the front and then my grandma's 20' trailer with a soild steel floor (3/8ths plate) with a full pallet of siding and some cinder blocks on it.
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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 10:39 AM
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These pictures make the little I have towed look like nothing LOL.

I have the max trailering package, 3.73 and the 6.2 and the most I hooked up was an aluminum trailer and a couple snowmobiles LOL.


Maybe this summer I will get a chance to pull a buddies 25' river boat some and see how she does.
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Old Jun 11, 2012 | 07:45 PM
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that black duramax is sick!!!
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Old Jun 13, 2012 | 09:40 PM
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Load brought it down to about 3/6 from 3/4. I was in my c10 so I got to see the stance going down the road. It was perfect..
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 05:12 AM
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^^
It does look good at it's current height!
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 09:30 AM
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See, quick and easy way to lower your truck.
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