Towing a 5th Wheel with a lifted truckWhich one of you guys has the lifted truck and wants to know if you can still tow a fifth wheel?

I know it's heresy to say it on this site but as long as you use quality components and are smart about tire capacity you can tow safely with a moderately lifted truck. Most guys I see running lifted trucks tow TT's, though. Newer stock HD trucks are already about maxed out in terms of height while keeping the fifth wheel reasonably level with enough bedrail clearance. A leveling kit up front would be fine but that's about it. You'd have to do some serious mods to make a fifth wheel work with the truck highlighted in the article, meaningless payload rating or not.

Are you just trying to start a forum fight? lol

I was kind of surprised that so many people agreed that the truck featured was not a very good tow vehicle.

Two major issues: - A lot of people have to jack up the trailer frames to get bed clearance using stock trucks. add 6-8" to the bed height and that trailer is going to have to be very high to get any clearance on the bed. - You better hope it is someone who knew what they were doing when they spec'd the parts and installed them properly. Most lift systems are focused on making it taller not stronger.Then you have secondary issues such as did they upgrade the brakes? Larger tires will require larger brakes to have the same braking capability. Not a huge issue driving around empty but if you need the full capability, it's not great. Similarly the big tires will result in needing to run in lower gears.

For some reason the guys that lift the trucks usually think they don't need a WD hitch. Almost everyone i`ve seen has the trailer just sitting on the ball and the truck squatting badly.

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Lwiddis
Explorer II
Jun 20, 2018
Are you just trying to start a forum fight? lol
IdaD
Explorer
Jun 20, 2018
I know it's heresy to say it on this site but as long as you use quality components and are smart about tire capacity you can tow safely with a moderately lifted truck. Most guys I see running lifted trucks tow TT's, though. Newer stock HD trucks are already about maxed out in terms of height while keeping the fifth wheel reasonably level with enough bedrail clearance. A leveling kit up front would be fine but that's about it.

You'd have to do some serious mods to make a fifth wheel work with the truck highlighted in the article, meaningless payload rating or not.

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