TC bends frame of Dually - pic

I looked under my 06 RAM 3500 dually this morning. Everything looks good. I wanted to check after carrying the new AF 990 to Alaska this summer. That camper is lots heavier than my Northstar 8.5 Arrow.

I tried to get some info and measurements of the RAM frame. I'm not sure if "fully boxed" is the right term but the frame from front to back is fully enclosed. Appears like a tube compressed on the sides to form a beam with rounded tops and bottoms. The sections are about 8 inches tall and 2.8 inches wide. It was difficult to get a precise thickness but it appears to be about 0.2 inches thick.

Found this on youtube. I don't know if this is an isolated incident or not. I had a 2001 2500HD with no known issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBNll0bTYZo

I am going to crawl around under my RAM 3500 today and check things out.:)

A very good friend of mine did this very thing to a 1990 Dodge Cummins ex cab longbed. He was moving to Kodiak, Ak and while driving to the ALCAN with a very heavy tandem axle haul mark, and while traveling about 70 mph, he hit one of those pesky frost heaves. It launched truck and trailer into the air. But with all that force, and the heavy trailer, it bent the truck frame in the same place just not as far. He continued to drive the truck after fixing a few minor things the remainder to Kodiak. Then used a large piece of I beam two chains and a hydraulic jack. This happens a lot on the ALCAN. Overloaded trailers, excessive speed and frost heaves or bad road conditions.

Garry

Ford , GM , Dodge are all good trucks
What we do to them sometimes causes issues
I had Air bags on my truck , no more , but still have the holes I drilled for them
As I was investigating cracked and bent frames I ran across a few caused by air bags also, heres one

I stopped at the Torklift booth at the RV show in Seattle today and picked up a brochure that illustrates frame damage from trailer overload.
They have the same information on their website.
Thot that it might be of interest:

The fix:

Source: Chassis Upgrade

Bedlam wrote:
Toyotas are not supposed to bend that way either...

WTH?!??!?

sleepy wrote:
It's never required a chip

You can't chip one anyway.... the days of installing a "chip" are long gone.

Toyotas are not supposed to bend that way either...

Here is another one but I think they put it on the lift wrong

Utah has safety inspections. They go as far as failing the vehicle if there is a chip in the windshield.