Heavier Truck for towing a trailer?

[dr frankenstyle]

so something like this? the braces will support the middle and keep if from being floppy.



not sure what the nut and teflon washer is for, or what you mean by it spanning the width of the trailer part.

I think it would be much easier to cut your axles in the middle, between your black lines and reconnect them with a pipe. The nuts you have will hold the axles in, and they'll touch in the middle keeping them from moving inward. Super simple and no mods to the trailer.
jmho

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[67mustang]

What if you found 4 dogbone stub shafts and use its spindle to run a bearing?

Besides weight for the truck, I would imagine you need to make the trailer as friction free as possible. Maybe you should consider narrowing the trailer. Trailer looks a bit larger than the truck. Might increase the push.

But you dont want to get in a situation where you end up dragging around alot of weight on the trail when unhooked. If you have yet to ever weight your wheels, then I would probably tune the truck by itself in some rougher terrain. Dont tune it when attached to a trailer on pavement. A truck that is tuned with weight will way outcrawl an untuned truck.

 

[67mustang]

im not rock crawling with this rig, its my scale/trail runner/mud truck/wraith rock crawler hauler.

If its a dedicated hauler then I would drop it a little. Weight the hell out of it. Make the trailer smaller and lower and less track width. It would look and act scale pulling it around.

Im not sure how important scale is to you, but if a 1:1 tube crawler was on a little flatbed, it would almost not fit. I have had to weld on 6" angle to a trailer to fit a chevy on 39s. I would say the track width of it was very close to the trailer itself.

 

[sharkattack99]

What if you found 4 dogbone stub shafts and use its spindle to run a bearing?

Besides weight for the truck, I would imagine you need to make the trailer as friction free as possible. Maybe you should consider narrowing the trailer. Trailer looks a bit larger than the truck. Might increase the push.

But you dont want to get in a situation where you end up dragging around alot of weight on the trail when unhooked. If you have yet to ever weight your wheels, then I would probably tune the truck by itself in some rougher terrain. Dont tune it when attached to a trailer on pavement. A truck that is tuned with weight will way outcrawl an untuned truck.

Well I left it that long cause I had plans of adding like a little tool box up front for either a battery or to hold the tie down chains.

I don't plan to put a bunch of weight on it, just enough to help with it.

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[Nappy]

You can run allthread. Just find some rims with bearings off the front of a 2wd monster truck. Or I used B4.1 front wheels. They are more scale looking...

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[sharkattack99]

Ok got the axals separated and no trailer push, so nice I can turn fully and indefinitely. And when i straighten out the wheels it goes straight......Yay!!...lol

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