Fifth wheel attachment

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  1. W923

    W923 Road Train Member

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    Does anyone know of regulations pertaining to attaching fifth wheels to trucks?
    I am planning to use a military double oscillation fifth wheel because I don’t like the way the standard ones twist my lowboy on some jobsites and dragging through ditches at road corners that weren’t made for long trailers.
    The military bolts it through the flanges of the truck frame with 10 5/8 bolts which I won’t do. I am thinking of building a track with 5/8 thick angle iron to bolt to the side of the frame like we normally would do and then surround the fifth wheel mounting base and bolt or pin through both pieces so I can still move it front and back.
    I know holland makes kompensator fifth wheels but they don’t have enough side to side.
    Would this be leagal or against any rules
     
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  3. W923

    W923 Road Train Member

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    Hopefully my hideous drawing helps show what I am thinking
     
  4. CropShop

    CropShop Bobtail Member

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    How about just welding one piece of angle onto the fifth wheel the way inboard? fifth wheels are mounted onto some trucks?
     
  5. W923

    W923 Road Train Member

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    I suppose that would work but it’s a stationary fifth wheel so I wouldn’t be around to move it. Maybe that’s not a big deal I have two trucks but I like it pretty far forward and can’t clear the landing gear on my 24 foot dump
     
  6. CropShop

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    That makes a difference, what I did it on was a regular sliding one. Could you make it wide enough to bolt it outside the frame like an outboard mount fifth wheel base? They usually have holes to adjust it forward or backward.
     
  7. W923

    W923 Road Train Member

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    I could probably mount it to a flat plate or wide flat bar and then bolt it on like a conventional outboard one and just manually slide the whole thing and rebolt
     
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