trailer lift kit

twodownzero wrote:

I think you should be much more concerned that the manufacturer's claims of "1/2 ton tow-able" are nonsense and that you likely lack sufficient payload to pull any 5th wheel that big with your truck, especially if it has a 4 door cab, 4wd, and you plan on having passengers in the cab with.

He’s not towing it with a half ton, just looking at “ half ton towable” models. OP has a Ram 2500 which is plenty of truck.

opnspaces has the ticket you are searching for.

How much room are you looking to gain?

Look under the trailer at the axles. If it has leaf springs and they are under the axle then you can add a kit to put the springs on top. This will gain you about 6 inches (the thickness of the axle plus the thickness of the spring pack) Dexter makes a kit for this.
Link to kit

Do remember that any other lift methods have to be divided in half. A tire that is one inch taller only lifts the trailer by 1/2 inch. It's the same with a longer shackle. A 1 inch longer shackle on one end of the spring pack adds only 1/2 inch to the ride height.

Grand Design generally builds a quality trailer and quality means heavy, or at least heavier than a cheaply built trailer of the same size.

Do NOT believe any truck sales person who says "You can pull that with this truck." They are "misinformed". Second only to trailer sales person who says "You can pull this with your current truck."

You know the GEICO commercial where the speaker's nose keeps growing?? That is what the sales people look like by the end of the day!

Many people raise their campers by "flipping the axles" to get the height they need. I've considered doing it myself but my trailer is high enough as it is. I did lower my pickup a little bit and that helped kinda split the baby and I left it alone after that.

I think you should be much more concerned that the manufacturer's claims of "1/2 ton tow-able" are nonsense and that you likely lack sufficient payload to pull any 5th wheel that big with your truck, especially if it has a 4 door cab, 4wd, and you plan on having passengers in the cab with you.

Larger rims are not going to raise the trailer at all unless they are combined with taller tires. Taller tires will likely not fit because the axle spacing is such that the taller tires will be too close to each other and could even touch when the suspension cycles. If taller tires were the solution, people wouldn't be making drastic suspension modifications to get the height they need.