Broken Frame on a RAM 3500
You may have seen pics of this truck and camper floating around the interwbez for the last few weeks. Here's an article about it that was published earlier today. Broken Frame on a RAM 3500
Forum Discussion
Dodge/Rams Body Builder guide allows drilling/welding the main frame rails on '03 and up Dodge/Ram hydroformed frame rails.
Drilling/welding the top or bottom of the tube rails can void the frame warranty.\
We also don't know the truck work history.
My 2500 '03 5th wheel/GN hitch brkets were welded per Dodge Body Builder guide in '03 and no issues with frame problems in 380+k miles carrying up to 3600-3800 lb hitch loads on my GN ball.
Using a gvwr based payload in the bed shows the fallacy of using the gvwr payload sticker as a in the bed payload which of course overloads a LDT rawr in most cases.
It'll be interesting to see the truck owners decision on how to go forward on the trucks problem.
Drilling/welding the top or bottom of the tube rails can void the frame warranty.\
We also don't know the truck work history.
My 2500 '03 5th wheel/GN hitch brkets were welded per Dodge Body Builder guide in '03 and no issues with frame problems in 380+k miles carrying up to 3600-3800 lb hitch loads on my GN ball.
Using a gvwr based payload in the bed shows the fallacy of using the gvwr payload sticker as a in the bed payload which of course overloads a LDT rawr in most cases.
It'll be interesting to see the truck owners decision on how to go forward on the trucks problem.
