raising 5th wheel

Looks good. Amazing how much money can be saved when the pieces aren't being designed by college educated imbeciles with lawyers breathing down their necks...

 

It's also amazing how much money you can see disappear in a lawsuit. Carry on, carry on. You build it, you're responsible for it. How many stress failure analysis courses have you taken?

 

How many stress failure analysis courses have YOU taken?? If he would get in an accident & something happened are they gonna go after the steel supplier too? Maybe the bolt manufacturer? Maybe the welding wire manufacturer? Maybe the welder manufacturer? If a lawsuit ever would come about they could just keep going on & on down the line of people to blame.

I think his risers look d@mn nice & see no reason why they should cause an issue so go take another course you over educated idiot.

 

First, they'll go after his insurance company. Then his insurance company will say, oh we're sorry, but you altered an oem designed product. Then they'll go after him. Over educated idiot has nothing to do with it. Apparently, the facts about Murphy's Law seem to bother you.

 

Grainhawler makes some valid points but I understand what Benjamin is saying. I think the chances of something breaking after altering a oem part and causing a accident and getting sued is so remote. I'm sure it has happened somewhere at some point in time. Now that all depends on who is doing the work with good knowledge or someone who is taking shortcuts and rushing the job. That being said, by the looks of what ez is doing looks great. It probably is stronger the way he is doing it versus if he bought a new one or one from a junkyard. I think ez is well knowledgable of what will work and won't. I think he'll be just fine.

 

A hundred years from now, it won't matter to us anyway.

 

Looks good but how much down time do you have invloved ? Not trying to start smack but just asking. And I ask because through out the years of trucking, I personally have learned THE HARD WAY 101, by the time I do any modification to save a few bucks, I never had put in perspective how much downtime I was losing. So to make a long story short, For me, I save more money by having the professional do it in alot LESS time then it would of took me. But that's just me. BTW, did you paint all the tubing(your riser) specially underneath to help prevent rust in the future ?