Recent content by Ditcherman

Hmmm I have a 74 that has the vent door, I’m assuming the cowl is unmolested, with the vin tag on it. Maybe 75 and up when they changed the front window frame? But yes X2 on the city racer drain hoses.

Richard, for what it’s worth I’ll toss out there my unscientific incidental evidence of running some off the shelf locally available additives to see if I could increase economy and reduce smoke from the ppump 6bt in my 40 before I went out to SAS this year and settled on the Power Service brand...

Oh got it, they're mounted with the lever parallel to the axle (if it wasn't hanging down) or the plane of rotation parallel with the axle. On trucks and trailers they're mounted with the lever front to rear, perpendicular to the axle, so that's what I was stuck envisioning. Very ingenious...

I laughed at your question but it is serious. But I think it has a logical answer, and that is that the tow vehicle has two axles, and you can manage how far over you're leaned most (some?) of the time by getting one tire up when one dips. The trailer "if" built with the same CG would go over...

We have those valves on the shelf for our big trucks and trailers, pretty familiar with them. They'd actually have to be set up to work opposite the way of their intended use, to inflate and maintain air in a bag where the tire is dropped away from the trailer. In these high end trailer builds...

Actually these are also the kind of responses I was looking for, as well as the positive ones. Tons of trailer experience, the closest I come to off road is a hooper bottom in a side ditch leaning. So I was really asking about the practicalness of it all, but I’m sure it sounded like I wanted it...

I think anything with 4 wheels and no suspension has a pivoting axle in my world. Farm tractors, backhoes, trencher, even wagons. I don’t know how an AntiRock sway bar would do anything but stabilize the trailer to the single axle. The only way to do it is air or hydraulic, and instead of...

Whatever it is that googles turned into these days tells me it's just internet lore. Pictures or it didn't happen! (I can't find any, but boy was that some good reading, the good ol' days I guess...) Quoted from google, before you scroll to the actual expensive axes...""3. Off-Road Community...

Meant to hit reply to @NMBruce Nice looking trailer! I like that trailing arm idea, but it looks like when the axle articulates something has to spin on the threads, that’s it’s not a ball end that pivots? I’m thinking that smaller diameter airbags will be easier to manage the pressures in and...

I’m kind of exploring managing the tipping angle, keeping the weight more upright and centered while the axle articulates. Many times the vehicle has the advantage of one axle extremely articulating with the other more level and stabilizing the vehicle. There’s no way to manage that with the...

Question for the more experienced around here… The TL;DR: how much benefit would there be to a trailer that self leveled - side to side - while rock crawling/off roading? Some conversations in the hardcore corner about trailering on Rubicon and Poughkeepsie got my wheels turning here. I’m also...

That’s what I’m good for. Getting into trouble. The more I think about it the more I realize a really nicely tuned - or tunable - suspension would be for trails. You get out there with the wrong thing and it’s gonna be miserable, which you might not catch on just a highway drive. Good on you...

Speaking of that area, we explored Alaska Basin this year, and thinking of those switchbacks and pulling a trailer sounds crazy to me. Those switchbacks were scarier than BB, being less traveled, maybe narrower by a bit, and on a scree slope. I’m thinking I could get into trouble quick with a...

Well that’s up to you to figure out!

Careful, I’m not sure dimple dies and rv doors are allowed on the same rig. Two very different styles, one says go-anywhere-stud and the other one says I don’t like dirt.