Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Just a temp tarp cover till I get done when I come home, I need to go back to work as I spent a stupid amount of $$ this time home. Had to undo the conversion on the single leveling valve on my lift/drives as I could not get the weight to equalize across the three axles. Hate spending money to undo what I paid to have done. Live and don't learn, my motto

 

You did what? Run a single leveling valve for all three back axles when the one is a spring lded. lift?
Please don't tell me some body talked you into that.
The reason is the spring lift will try and lift and you need a seprate valve as it needs it's own air pressure to it.
Sometimes more than you would have for pressure on your drives air bags.
I can get away with that due to the fact my tag is not a liftable axle, but it does have regulaters on the lines. Never have had to adjust them though.

 

The solutions was a little more complicated. I had a separate valve installed to dump the air from the lift axle bags when the lift bags inflated.

It worked fine but I think do to the difference in bag size fr the Hendrickson lift axle to the airliner suspension, the lift axle would only get about 80% of the weight each of my fixed drive axles would get, regardless of the fifth wheel position.

I had it converted because when I spoke to the CA inspection folks they told me it had to level from a single valve to get a inspection number for permitting as a 4 axle

 

Ok, easy fix for that. Take and cut out some plates the same dim as your airbag bells. 1/4 " thick at the most.
Install them between your bottom bells on the tag and the swing arm plate. Helps with more down pressure on your tag.
Then you can get a better balance on your three axles with one leveling valve
Basicly making shims.

 

Will have try that at some point when I get time. I am back the factory set up for a while.

 

Just an old junk dust collector system someone decided to buy, nothing special

 

Big load.....

 

Can anyone tell me how to enlarge photos from my phone? When I hit edit post from my computer it brings up the pic and I right click on it and I choose the size. On my phone I hit edit post and it doesn't bring up the pic just letters and numbers.

Edit: I double left click on my computer

 

are you on the mobile site on your phone, or the full desktop site?

 

Full site I believe.