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- Manufacturers factory tour, maybe big dealership tour
- Vehicle Year
- 1997 1987
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Engine
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Manual
- Total Lift
- 97 stock, 3” on 87
- Total Drop
- N/A
- Tire Size
- 235/75-15
- My credo
- Never put off ‘til tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely
Lincoln and I took the Missing Linc and went after eight pieces of 2 x 2 by 3/16 square tubing. They were 3 foot long with a 12 inch angle piece for $50 for all 8.
They were used in an office remodel in a skyscraper down here. They barely have surface rust on them.
My deranged plan for my proposed Aluminum car trailer, and for finishing up the Road ‘Raith Kasket Kitchen is to make both of them so I can pull them with a normal trailer hitch, and to make an assembly to allow me to pull them with the Road Ranger fifth wheel style.
Something I have done with my home built trailers for years and years (for theft protection) is to have the nose end up with a receiver tube instead of putting the coupling directly on the trailer. I put the coupling or lunette ring on a piece of 2 x 2 tubing so I can insert it into the trailer nose just like you insert a trailer hitch into a truck receiver.
I’ve been looking for some heavy enough 2x2 tubing to build my adapters for a long time, and the Lord answered my prayers this morning. I don’t have a specific design, but I’m going to make some kind of tripod-looking thing that can slide into the receiver on the trailer, and you can bolt down the two side legs to the angled trailer frame, and then it has a neck that sticks out with a ball on it to couple with the Road Ranger.
I’ve mentioned I also want to build an aluminum converter dolly so I can pull tandems. It’s my understanding that if I hook the converter dolly like that to the back of my F250, and I use chains from each side to go to the corners of the truck (so it makes it kind of a rigid piece), that counts as a tag axle on the truck So, with that thing, I can pull the step trailer with the F250 if I wanted to. The center rail on such an aluminum converter dolly will be made of pretty stout steel to make sure the weight passing from the back trailer to the front trailer to the trailer hitch has plenty of tensile strength.
Of course I’m too cheap to just go buy that piece of square tubing, but these things are virtually custom made for the project.
More to follow, probably in my build threads. When I start the car trailer, I’ll start another thread for that.
Oh, and I don’t know if I ever mentioned thatI love Craigslist and marketplace.
They were used in an office remodel in a skyscraper down here. They barely have surface rust on them.
My deranged plan for my proposed Aluminum car trailer, and for finishing up the Road ‘Raith Kasket Kitchen is to make both of them so I can pull them with a normal trailer hitch, and to make an assembly to allow me to pull them with the Road Ranger fifth wheel style.
Something I have done with my home built trailers for years and years (for theft protection) is to have the nose end up with a receiver tube instead of putting the coupling directly on the trailer. I put the coupling or lunette ring on a piece of 2 x 2 tubing so I can insert it into the trailer nose just like you insert a trailer hitch into a truck receiver.
I’ve been looking for some heavy enough 2x2 tubing to build my adapters for a long time, and the Lord answered my prayers this morning. I don’t have a specific design, but I’m going to make some kind of tripod-looking thing that can slide into the receiver on the trailer, and you can bolt down the two side legs to the angled trailer frame, and then it has a neck that sticks out with a ball on it to couple with the Road Ranger.
I’ve mentioned I also want to build an aluminum converter dolly so I can pull tandems. It’s my understanding that if I hook the converter dolly like that to the back of my F250, and I use chains from each side to go to the corners of the truck (so it makes it kind of a rigid piece), that counts as a tag axle on the truck So, with that thing, I can pull the step trailer with the F250 if I wanted to. The center rail on such an aluminum converter dolly will be made of pretty stout steel to make sure the weight passing from the back trailer to the front trailer to the trailer hitch has plenty of tensile strength.
Of course I’m too cheap to just go buy that piece of square tubing, but these things are virtually custom made for the project.
More to follow, probably in my build threads. When I start the car trailer, I’ll start another thread for that.
Oh, and I don’t know if I ever mentioned thatI love Craigslist and marketplace.
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