Laying frame and towing boats!

[RunninLo]

My old shop dually has an old school 2 link with the bags for everyday driving mounted on the bars. Everything is over built with gussets everywhere and fairly large tubing. Ride is pretty smooth and has great lift for the MT roads. For towing I have a fairly large set of double convoluted bags that are mounted on top of the axle in an even stouter bridge. They're on a separate air circuit and are normally vented so they'll allow the everyday bags to travel normally. When I hook up the trailer I just close the ball valve vent and hit the switch to air them up.

Why 2 sets of rear bags? Well, with standard 224C's in the rear @ the axle the truck lifted higher in the front than the rear at fulll lift. I didn't like the draggin tail look. So I switched to the canti mount and my lift AND ride were great but due to mechanical leverage of the cantilever the towing capacity dropped drastically. With the big Contitec bags over the axle I got all my capacity and then some back. Yeah added expense of 2 more bags, 2 more valves,plus the ball valve but now I get to have my cake and eat it too.

I guess after all that the 1 thing I can say for sure if you want to be low and tow ..... over engineer and over build strength into everything.



Shop truck is the orange one and has towed every other vehicle in the pic sometimes two at a time. Purple truck is no lightweight either with several thousand pounds of audio gear and a diamond tilt bed to add to the GVW.

Josh
PS While I wish ALL of these were mine they in fact belong to one of my best customers/ supporters