10k grease bath trailer axles.

Best I can do:

I had no idea how fast that load added up.....but it added up fast.
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And a trailer I rescued for a guy I know when the load was so heavy it broke the studs out of the wheel spacers on his 3/4-ton dodge ram. No idea on wieght, but that is oak, and probably the heaviest thing I've ever towed with a 1-ton. Probably 10K or more above the 33K load. Auto transmission HATED that load. Absolutely hated it.
 

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Not a Juan-taun, but heavy as **** non-the-less.

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4x4dually said:
Best I can do:

I had no idea how fast that load added up.....but it added up fast.
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And a trailer I rescued for a guy I know when the load was so heavy it broke the studs out of the wheel spacers on his 3/4-ton dodge ram. No idea on wieght, but that is oak, and probably the heaviest thing I've ever towed with a 1-ton. Probably 10K or more above the 33K load. Auto transmission HATED that load. Absolutely hated it.
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It's a dodge auto trans so you know it hated that one haha. I'm more curious about how much your butt clenched the seats when stopping lol. Also that is why I would never run spacers and those rubber band wheels on something I am going to load the **** out of. The less stuff to break the better.
 
notforjire said:
It's a dodge auto trans so you know it hated that one haha. I'm more curious about how much your butt clenched the seats when stopping lol. Also that is why I would never run spacers and those rubber band wheels on something I am going to load the **** out of. The less stuff to break the better.
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It's so good to see a new member that has common sense. My 68RFE has 205K miles on here now. Only had the pan dropped once thus far for filter change and fluid replacement. With all the nay-sayers online about the 68 and the millions of pounds this one has hauled, I can't say anything bad about it.

You nailed it when to mentioned stopping. Any truck can get 40K rolling, it's the stopping that is dangerous. That load of oak I started braking in cycles a half-mile before the exit. Brake...let 'em cool. Brake...let 'em cool.
 
4x4dually said:
It's so good to see a new member that has common sense. My 68RFE has 205K miles on here now. Only had the pan dropped once thus far for filter change and fluid replacement. With all the nay-sayers online about the 68 and the millions of pounds this one has hauled, I can't say anything bad about it.

You nailed it when to mentioned stopping. Any truck can get 40K rolling, it's the stopping that is dangerous. That load of oak I started braking in cycles a half-mile before the exit. Brake...let 'em cool. Brake...let 'em cool.
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Yeah some people have zero issues with them while some never catch a break. I think it's just that dodge has poor qc so they don't get near as many good units so you see more failures. I drove a 08 2500 Cummins for work over the summer and it had a fresh trans at 250k but I don't know if it had one before that or not. It shifted good being brand new but I didn't like how it shifted it felt like it was using the tc a lot but I had never driven a auto diesel so maybe it was just trying to keep boost up that truck was deleted and everything and ran like a freight train. I still prefer a manual in any truck I'm driving and that's what my 99 350 v10 has and it's been abused but still shifts ok except for a couple missing synchros.
 
Dodge tranny's are broke when they're new. Once you build it, they're good.
 
4x4dually said:
It's so good to see a new member that has common sense. My 68RFE has 205K miles on here now. Only had the pan dropped once thus far for filter change and fluid replacement. With all the nay-sayers online about the 68 and the millions of pounds this one has hauled, I can't say anything bad about it.

You nailed it when to mentioned stopping. Any truck can get 40K rolling, it's the stopping that is dangerous. That load of oak I started braking in cycles a half-mile before the exit. Brake...let 'em cool. Brake...let 'em cool.
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Yes, that's also why our new trailer has Electric over hydraulic disc brakes on 17.5 wheels....I have NEVER had a pucker moment with that trailer...except when the GM truck decided to shut down the trailer brake controller mid stop because it saw the trailer battery voltage over 14.0V

That's another rant...

Chris
 
Signature600 said:
Yes, that's also why our new trailer has Electric over hydraulic disc brakes on 17.5 wheels....I have NEVER had a pucker moment with that trailer...except when the GM truck decided to shut down the trailer brake controller mid stop because it saw the trailer battery voltage over 14.0V

That's another rant...

Chris
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I've debated making one of the trailers I'm building hydraulic brakes in order to use the stock truck axle(making a matching truck bed trailer camper for one of my trucks) but the setups are so expensive I think I'm just going to go with a 3.5k electric axle since the truck is already wired for electric brakes
 
Here's a few I could find easily...the Oliver's were HEAVY. Probably one of the worst I've ever had.

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notforjire said:
I've debated making one of the trailers I'm building hydraulic brakes in order to use the stock truck axle(making a matching truck bed trailer camper for one of my trucks) but the setups are so expensive I think I'm just going to go with a 3.5k electric axle since the truck is already wired for electric brakes
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I've thought about the same thing using an F750 axle for another trailer to haul stationary engines on

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Signature600 said:
Here's a few I could find easily...the Oliver's were HEAVY. Probably one of the worst I've ever had.

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I probably wouldn't worry about putting that behind my 67 c50 with 83 c70 axles but I know it wouldn't be fast. My one ton would not be happy about the Oliver's most likely more just stopping wise
 
With that trailer, it STOPS. Each of those Olivers are about 10K lbs with the middle one being heavier, and the trailer weighs 11K and change. So with the truck, we were over 50K gross weight. Truck handled it absolutely fine, but you could tell it was heavy.

These new trucks don't might weight, it's WIND they don't like. If you throw a cab tractor, or one with a canopy back there, the transmission is always shifting...but those 3 she sat in high gear and mosey along at 70mph until you found a hill LOL

But the brakes, that trailer just plain stops!
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Signature600 said:
With that trailer, it STOPS. Each of those Olivers are about 10K lbs with the middle one being heavier, and the trailer weighs 11K and change. So with the truck, we were over 50K gross weight. Truck handled it absolutely fine, but you could tell it was heavy.

These new trucks don't might weight, it's WIND they don't like. If you throw a cab tractor, or one with a canopy back there, the transmission is always shifting...but those 3 she sat in high gear and mosey along at 70mph until you found a hill LOL

But the brakes, that trailer just plain stops!
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Yeah my f350 even with the worn out v10 doesn't mind the heavy duty trailer and a truck in the back and will do 65mph easy on the flats and I would do more but 4.30 rears put me at 2500rpm already but the moment I hit a hill I am shifting into 4th and letting that thing scream even empty but hopefully going to to a tune-up on it soon and see if that wakes it up a little bit maybe. It hasn't had plugs in 5 years at least.
 
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