You cant have any supports in front of the rear axle centerline being as they are part of the hitch. As well as connection to the rear above centerline.
I disagree with this. If you read the rules both are acceptable. There's a key phrases in the rules that say, "If attached to the rear axle" and "Pivot point"
I don't know who's truck is in question here but from my experience hitch supports that go over the axle or forward of the axles are legal.
I've pulled with both PPL and NTPA and had the head techs for both organizations go through the rules and both have said this is perfectly legal as well as inspect my hitch several times.
Two years ago at Scheid they admitted that I was perfectly legal but said they would update the rules the next year to eliminate the ability to do that. Two years later the rule remains the same.
I disagree with this. If you read the rules both are acceptable. There's a key phrases in the rules that say, "If attached to the rear axle" and "Pivot point"
I don't know who's truck is in question here but from my experience hitch supports that go over the axle or forward of the axles are legal.
I've pulled with both PPL and NTPA and had the head techs for both organizations go through the rules and both have said this is perfectly legal as well as inspect my hitch several times.
Two years ago at Scheid they admitted that I was perfectly legal but said they would update the rules the next year to eliminate the ability to do that. Two years later the rule remains the same.
If the supports going forward were illegal every tube chassis truck would fail tech
And I'm telling you PPL has seen the pic of the truck and said exactly what I did.
Is that yours?!?!
I'm assuming in smoots case they rolled the axle back to get 158". It was a RC lb.
I don't believe Baker is involved with the chassis. I got the impression it is that Omps from down that waycorrect!! i saw Baker was tagged in the pic for his services, maybe he will come accross this and enlighten us some more.