Popping sounds while making shrap turns

Unlock the dam diffs

 

Were getting off track here. What does the 5th wheel and diff locks have to do with hitting a curb? Maybe broke a mount. I'd be underneath that truck checking everything in the front. Might have jammed the steering box, although, I've done a lot of off-road stuff, and hit all kinds of stuff and never hurt the box. I guess, depends how hard of a hit it took. Wheel bearing took the brunt?

 

I'll be ######. If that 5th wheel is all the way to the back with them slideable racks... it's out of proper position. That changes the entire geometry of the problem. Devil dances in the details like that I forget more than I know. That tractor will be feeling mighty poorly if that wheel is all the way back to the end of frame.

Why in the world? Come common sense, that 5th wheel rack will give you about 500 pounds per notch one way or the other to solve 34000 pound weight problems right at the drive itself. It's not useful for anything else. And actually could do damage to certain tractors when too far forward.

 

Ok, that's fine I guess.

Maybe I should have reworded my thought better. Let me try again. The 5th wheel slide rack is specifically for solving a weight problem on the drive. You can move it very little bit one way or the other above those drives to get weight off them just so. It does not take very much at all to do it.

That is only if the weight wont come off the drives by shifting cargo inside the trailer or tandems back there. And potentially could share the heavy ### trailer weight once in a while.

The 5th wheel in my opinion should always be position where a van trailer's forward wall with the glad hand holders be vertical with your first drive tire's forward tread looking up and down. That usually gives you the whole catwalk and room back there behind your cab's back wall.

In my time 5th wheel racks went all the way back to the end of frame. Setting them that far back and loading it down caused the tractor to feel like a dog with a simple chain around it's neck. ERK! CHOKE every time you tried to turn one.

 

Grease the king pins in the front end.

 

That's basic grease 101 taught to anyone who got big enough to pickup and squeeze a grease gun onto the shop floor eh?

What are they doing to the people in them shops? All that computer stuff must have rotted thier brains or something.

 

Also have them look for a bent steering stop.

Frank