Towing 5th wheel with a 4 inch lift?
I am looking into buying a truck and verbally committed myself to a F-350 diesel with a 4 inch lift. I am towing a rather heavy 5th wheel toy hauler and do fall just within the maximum weight fully l...
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There's so much nonsense in here it's ridiculous. Old people like my dad say all the same things. It's unreliable, unsafe, premature wear on parts, hard on the tranny blah blah blah.
I would say at least half of the trucks and taoyhaylers in California are lifted trucks towing fifth wheels or bumper pulls with zero problems.
I will speak from experience here. Yes it is expensive to do it right - brakes, gearing, tranny coolers and good quality lift components. Plus you will usually need to flip the axles on the trailer.
I currently tow a 38' weekend warrior with flipped axles and associated frame reinforcement. I tow that with a diesel truck lifted 8" on 37" tires. Guess what it tows amazing. It hardly moves around at all and have never felt unsafe. I have literally put thousands of miles on this combination all over and up and down the Cuesta grade, grocer grade, tehachapi grade, cajon pass, the bishop grade into mammoth. The list goes on and on. Never have I been uncomfortable. The truck has a lot of upgrades for towing but the trailer is 14k dry so I had to.
The lift and rims I have are way overbuilt compared to stock. This combo has 167000 miles on it and has been great.
All these geezers talk about this nonsense with nothing to back up their claims. You know what's really unsafe? 80 year olds driving 40' diesel pushers. Now that's scary.
I would say at least half of the trucks and taoyhaylers in California are lifted trucks towing fifth wheels or bumper pulls with zero problems.
I will speak from experience here. Yes it is expensive to do it right - brakes, gearing, tranny coolers and good quality lift components. Plus you will usually need to flip the axles on the trailer.
I currently tow a 38' weekend warrior with flipped axles and associated frame reinforcement. I tow that with a diesel truck lifted 8" on 37" tires. Guess what it tows amazing. It hardly moves around at all and have never felt unsafe. I have literally put thousands of miles on this combination all over and up and down the Cuesta grade, grocer grade, tehachapi grade, cajon pass, the bishop grade into mammoth. The list goes on and on. Never have I been uncomfortable. The truck has a lot of upgrades for towing but the trailer is 14k dry so I had to.
The lift and rims I have are way overbuilt compared to stock. This combo has 167000 miles on it and has been great.
All these geezers talk about this nonsense with nothing to back up their claims. You know what's really unsafe? 80 year olds driving 40' diesel pushers. Now that's scary.
