Fifth wheel chucking (practical help needed)
I am in search of some practical (layman terms) help for fifth wheel chucking. I am relatively new to fifth wheeling and towing in general. I have a 29 ft fifth wheel with a 11,000 lb GVWR (older so...
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In my experience, my '02 2500 D'max towing my '04 Komfort 25FSG (29'3" nose to tail, 11,360 GVW) chucked a bit, sometimes pretty hard. I =was= towing nose-high as I needed bed clearance for some of the backroad spots we camped at. My one real regret with that trailer was that it could have used an axle flip to reduce the nose-high attitude, but I never did it. Not sure how much it would have helped, but everyone I talked to said it would. If the OP's FW doesn't have the springs over the axles, that would be a place to start, for sure. Not all that expensive to do. The one recommendation that =everyone= said to do on a flip, was to weld the new spring perches onto the axles or you risk them slipping.
My Komfort did have shocks but, IMO, they were next to useless due to the angle of their attachment. They were nowhere near vertical. Had I flipped the axles, I'm sure they would have been a lot more effective. My '17 KZ doesn't have them, and I wish it did.
FWIW, new shocks on the truck helped somewhat, but not a whole lot.
Lyle
My Komfort did have shocks but, IMO, they were next to useless due to the angle of their attachment. They were nowhere near vertical. Had I flipped the axles, I'm sure they would have been a lot more effective. My '17 KZ doesn't have them, and I wish it did.
FWIW, new shocks on the truck helped somewhat, but not a whole lot.
Lyle
