Opinions: FW to gooseneck adapters?

DSteiner51 wrote:


Explain the difference going down the road at 65 mph, please. I see very little difference. The difference is in off road soft fields for the gooseneck while very few RVs get those stresses. Again, two entirely different applications. While you are at it maybe you would also like to enlighten us to why almost all frame failures are on fifth wheel hitches instead of those converted.

Your second question is probably w/o merit, because if adding stress by adding a GN extension actually REDUCED the failure rate percentage, then the science of physics is totally wrong. Maybe the number of GN extensions is very small, maybe the failures are not talked about, maybe the miles towed is small. Doesn't matter, increasing a lever arm length adds stress, if physics is right. Same story at 65 mph, add a lever arm, hit a pothole and stress on the fiver frame will be worse, again based on physics. Now if all towing conditions were smooth as glass, all speed changes were very gradual, maybe then that extra lever arm might have minimal impact. The real world is different.