Turning a FW around in a Culdesac
We keep our FW in a storage area about 5 mi from our house. It's not terrible, but loading for trips, water etc, gets to be a bit of a pain. It would certainly be easier to bring to the house to load....
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way2roll wrote:
One of my main concerns I meant to mention is, even if I can do it, should I? Making tight turns on our FW the tires start to drag and move sideways a bit. Our Culdesac is paved and I am afraid doing this could separate the belts, stress the axles etc. Maybe I am borrowing trouble, but that's a lot of stress on the tires and axles as at some point they would basically be moving sideways.
One of the differences between passenger tires and ST tires are that ST sidewall construction is designed to tolerate scrubbing. It shouldn't be an issue, especially if you're running load range G or H with steel belts.
As far as the axles, I'd be more worried about the leaf hangers. Most fifth wheels I've seen have simple brackets hanging off the frame without any cross bracing.
Where we used to store our fifth wheel when we had a sticks and bricks, I had to jack knife it to get it into the space. I never had an issue, repeating this probably over a hundred times.
Once we went FT, I added Mor/ryde X-factor Crossmembers because I was concerned about the longevity of the spring hangers with how they were attached. We scrub regularly getting into tight spots and have never had anything related to the axles, suspension, or tires fail. *knock on wood*
