Towing 5th wheel with a 4 inch lift?

kofire wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

kofire wrote:
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 am guessing you have never seen the carnage along I-10 PalmSprings where all the wind mills are. I have, plenty of these "safe" lifted trucks AZZ dragging bouncing down the highway with their BIG tires looking so "BAD AZZ" it really is a shame to think the innocent kids and wife's are possible victims of too much Testosterone!!!

I have actually. I travel up and down hwy 14 frequently. When we get wind events semi trucks have been blown over on a regular basis. It's so bad at the exit in Mojave they had to put up a large wind screen the entire length of the overpass.
I have pulled over and into the wind during one such wind event to wait out the storm. It was unsafe for any combination of tow vehicle regardless of height. People were only talking a matter of inches here.
My 37" tires are rated for 3750 a piece and the 20" rims far beyond that.
I carry my family in my truck. I would never do something to put them In harms way.
Having a stock height tow vehicle does not mean you are any safer then my setup.

I've towed with the old, 2005 3500 Dodge, with a 6" lift and 35" tall tires, pulled TT, goose neck and fifth wheel. I now pull TT, goose necks and fifth wheels with 2013 Ram at stock height and OEM sized tires, no difference in ride or driving issues. My 2005 did get better fuel mileage though.