Wait a minute! Let me think....................................................... OK thought about it.
There is no way it could've screwed up the clutch! If the airride was to high it would be pulling apart the driveshafts not cramming them. Someone is filling you full of shiiiiit!
Air ride height/5th wheel height?
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by sgreer78, Nov 25, 2008.
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If I drop an empty trailer and lower the landing gear until it meets the ground, you could back right up to it perfectly. If before you back under it, the shipper loads 40,000 lbs of freight in the trailer, the trailer's leaf springs will flatten out slightly and raise the nose, pivoting on the legs. If the tandems are slid to the rear, the movement is even more exaggerated. It used to drive me crazy too, until I figured that out.
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Yup, you're right. My bad.
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As you suggest, the best thing to do is just change the 5th wheel pedestals. -
Mine has a similar problem except...
fifth wheel plate on trailer is to close to tires when hooked.
Seems like most trucks I see on road tires are pretty much even with top of frame rail. mine are almost even with fifth wheel plate. seems way off to me.
truck has single axle and 22.5 tires
has 2 leveling valves, thinking of swaping to just one.
what is a good ground to fifthwheel plate height?
my fifth wheel is not a low profile one.
was told best way to set height is to couple to a 13'6" trailer and measure total height, then adjust to 13'6" -
Was the problem of the rear bags being higher than the front drive bags figured out?
The rear airbags on my Columbia are quite a bit higher than the fronts. Any advice? -
On some older trailers, the support leg gear boxes just don't want to let you move a trailer in any direction when it's loaded with 40-45k pounds of freight. Sometimes easier said than done.
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