Motorcycle carrier
I am considering a hydralift motorcycle carrier. Does anyone out there have one now that can give some advice? Thanks
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Ivylog wrote:
Fire Up/Scott, how many times are you going to keep putting out this BS...100 lbs off the front axle and why did you switch to putting it in the back of your PU? 1200 lbs that far off the back is going to take 400 lbs off the front BUT more importantly...it going to put 1600 lbs on the rear axle and 04 36GD only came with a 17500 rear axle. Obviously you never weighed your rig to see how overloaded your rear axle was...or did you and that's why you went with a PU??? Yes, you got away with it but to tell someone that 1200 lbs on the back of a single rear axle DP is no big deal is downright dangerous.
I pick up 1500 lbs off the back of my DP BUT it's a tag axle and it's heavy on the front axle so this actually helps with not overloading the front axle. Click on "How I Tow" above in my first post.
Well,
I figure'd you'd chime in with your rhetoric. You always do. Since you DON'T OWN MY COACH, and, haven't DONE IT ON MY COACH, you obviously have NO CLUE as to what ACTUALLY HAPPENED on MY COACH, when I ran that lift. If you want to argue, argue away, you'll be arguing with yourself. I did weigh the coach, before I even installed the lift. I knew WAY advance that I was going to be over weight on the rear axle. I knew what all the GVW, GAW and all the figures were before starting.
I had info on just what those axles can ACTUALLY HANDLE so, I was not overly concerned. I knew what that frame and sub-frame could handle to, so, You can believe what you want in terms of CALCULATIONS but, what my front end weighed BEFORE the lift and bike were installed and, what it weighed AFTER was barely over 100lbs and, I measured 1/16th" difference in height.
The one and only reason the Hydralift is still not on the coach is because of the tires. I have no control over the capability of the tires. They were overloaded. If I'd have blown any of the rear duals, the remaining one would be double overloaded. THAT'S why we now do things different.
We did it, it worked, no one died. The coach ran perfect down the road, PERIOD!
Scott
