Broken Frame on a RAM 3500

“ Dodge/Rams Body Builder guide allows drilling/welding the main frame rails on '03 and up Dodge/Ram hydroformed frame rails.”

Maybe so (I donno??), but how might this factoid be associated with installation of a Torklift ‘drill thru the frame’ tie-down mount?

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Dodge/Rams Body Builder guide allows drilling/welding the main frame rails on '03 and up Dodge/Ram hydroformed frame rails.
Drilling/welding the top or bottom of the tube rails can void the frame warranty.\
We also don't know the truck work history.

My 2500 '03 5th wheel/GN hitch brkets were welded per Dodge Body Builder guide in '03 and no issues with frame problems in 380+k miles carrying up to 3600-3800 lb hitch loads on my GN ball.

Using a gvwr based payload in the bed shows the fallacy of using the gvwr payload sticker as a in the bed payload which of course overloads a LDT rawr in most cases.

It'll be interesting to see the truck owners decision on how to go forward on the trucks problem.

I would only add to this, his mounts are made by Torklift, but (me having the same truck…) Torklift offers two different types of mounts - a clamp-on no drill version, and a drill thru the frame version…Ram uses a hydro-formed, high tensile steel box frame (14k GVWR) and drilling thru the frame voids the warranty (thus, the clamp-on version is used)…Yes the camper is uber heavy (I’ve seen a number of the same rig on the road and in CG’s…), but my guess from afar is that the unaware installer likely used the drill-thru mount and weakened the frame…JMO,

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Not very smart putting a tc that size on a pick up. Really it's not very smart having a tc that size at all. Just defeats the purpose of a tc.

rdhetrick wrote:

Grit dog wrote:


17,000 whats? What are you even talking about?

Did you read the article or just look at the pictures? 17,000 was the invoiced amount of the repair.

Yup 10-4. But thanks for asking.
I discovers these cool little symbols like $ and # (not hash tag but lbs). Everyone wuz all talkin aboot weight, including the remainder of your post.
Hence my cornfusion. Apologies.

Grit dog wrote:


17,000 whats? What are you even talking about?

Did you read the article or just look at the pictures? 17,000 was the invoiced amount of the repair.

And I thought this stupid thread just got closed….
But it was worth bringing up again?
Probably posted by a Chevy Owner! Lol
(We all know the Fjords snap too….but noone has captured a Like a Rock truck getting a case of the bends! Or the owners are slightly more intelligent and know better than to post “Look at my stupid human trick” stuff!).
Hahahaha

2003silverado wrote:
17,000 actually seems like a very reasonable figure to me.

If that weight was all in the bed or on a fifth wheel/goose neck hitch that never would have happened. Theres a HUGE amount of leverage factor with that sticking so far off the rear end.

17,000 whats? What are you even talking about?

towpro wrote:
a while ago it was a picture of an F350 broke just like this one, but everyone said that was photo shop?

Correction. 2 of em. Same camper and trailer different trucks.

The most amazing part of this is the owner is as much of an attention ***** as he is stupid….

Articles, FB posts, guy so dumb he doesn’t even realize he’s also publicly announcing his ignorance.
You know, those old pics of the 2 different super doodys with the same camper and trailer?
Bout the right timeline that this dipchit could actually have just scored the first broken truck hat trick!
Same guy? I wanna start that rumor!