Carrying Motorcycle
Hi, I was going to strap a motorcycle onto the back of my SunnyBrook 30' 5th wheel, but after looking at a few horror stories and wondering about frame fractures I decided I needed to find a diffe...
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harley hitchiker wrote:Excel has stopped installing the Hydralift on their fifth wheels due to frame flexing. DRV stopped installing the Hydralift several years ago for the same reason.
look at pic in my profile ,I currently haul electraglide classic on 35 ft. jayco designer over 25,000 mi, where do you read the horror stories and are they first hand and involve structural promblems or not securing it properly stories .I would be curious. If you want to see failures check out loading motorcycle failures on youtube there are those who take many things carelessly and end in disaster. None of these failures mean it can't be done safely
Excel was putting it on fivers, as a factory option, that were less than 34' but were talked into putting it on a 37' and had to bring the unit back to the factory for the addition of a third axle.
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From the president of Peterson Ind.:
I have to say I ruined it for everyone. We only offered it on 34' and shorter due to flex issues and the distance behind the axles inherent on longer units.
Against my better judgement, I let a customer talk me into installing it on a 37' and had the exact issues I knew we would have. It ended up costing us
more then the entire profit we have made on all the hydra-lift units we have ever installed combined.
It comes down to a "risk -vs- reward" issue. The potential for warranty isn't worth the reward should there be a problem.
There are many Excel customers out there who thoroughly enjoy their existing Hydra-Lift units and have had no issues but for no more than we actually install, it's just not worth it moving forward.
Bryan Tillett
President
