04 CTD flywheel
From : big al
Q: greetings different vehicle manufacturers as well as the hitch manufacturers will have varying recommendations. you are going to have to read your owners manual as well as the help and installation pages from the hitch manufacturers web sites for the best information for the set-up you have. as for handling the farther forward the king pin is in front of the rear axle the more weight is transfered forward to the front wheels. admittedly 6 may not sound like a whole lot but the only way to determine what feels best to you when towing your particular combination is trial and error which is much easier with a sliding set-up.. a change of an inch or two could make your steering feel heavier or lighter or give you too much rear end squirm. if you go to a group like alt.rv i can almost guarantee that the folks there will have more than a few things to say about this! depending on the length of the bed it most likely effect your turning radius as well. this is especially important with a short-bed truck. the last thing you want is to have the front corner of the trailer crush your back window and back edge of your roof while you are taking a tight turn. this is why you see so many forward-offset kingpin setups on the larger 5th wheel trailers these days. cheers - jonathan a fifth-wheel trailer is one that has a hitch that connects to the towing vehicle at a point above the rear axle of the towing vehicle - not at a point on the rear of the vehicle as with a pull-behind trailer. for example this is a 5th wheel http//www.theironworker.com/fifth%20wheel%20trailer.jpg my question concerns position of the point of attachment lets say the position of the king pin. for normal pulling of the trailer where is the best point to have the king pin should it be directly over the axle of the towing vehicle or should it be ahead of the axle if ahead by how much in what ways does handling change if the position of the king pin is changed this page http//www.etrailer.com/faq/fifthwheelfaq.asp discusses using a slider arrangement to move the king pin for maneuverability. it doesn t discuss the optimum position for towing. instructions that came with a hitch say to mount 0 to 6 inches ahead of the axle but provides no further information. -- |||||||||||||||| nehmo sergheyev |||||||||||||||| .
Replies:
From : tom lawrence
id like to make the windows work on acc. the way it is now if i want to open or close a window and the truck is off i have to turn the ignition on. this also cycles the heated screen in the intake of the ctd. any reason i should not any easy way to do it al .
From : steve lusardi
my 04 ho ctd has a solid flywheel and the 6speed gearbox. you have the nv5600 6spd not the new g56 6spd. al 2004 600ctd six speed nv5600. .
From : big al
big al wrote id like to make the windows work on acc. the way it is now if i want to open or close a window and the truck is off i have to turn the ignition on. this also cycles the heated screen in the intake of the ctd. any reason i should not any easy way to do it al i like the map light idea detailed here http//www.dodgeram.org/tech/mods/electric/windowpower.htm .
From : tom lawrence
i dont know if id want an alarm though just turn the damn thing off.. lol oh i want the alarm... not for me because i dont leave mine on. but i want the thing blaring a recording something to the effect of hey dumbass! turn the damn blinker off and stop looking like an imbecile!... or something similar. you know - just to convey the necessity of the situation .