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the heater core works fine, I only had this problem after the radiator swap. the old radiator was half rotten and probably did not cool to capacity.
I checked the heater hoses today and they are right. My dad noticed that the heater hose setup will always bypass the thermostat, never letting...
I have never had a problem with heat, but now that I have replaced my rotting radiator with a new one, I can get very little heat out of the cab heater. anyone else have this problem?
I wonder if my thermostat is bad??
I agree. There are two issues here.
1) is the load the truck is taking ( NOT 63,400 lbs gross, @35k gross) legal?
2) is the load safe?
I have investigated #1 and found it is in fact legal.If I have made any mistakes in this please point them out to me.
I think the answer on safety depends...
just talked to the motor carrier again. the rear axle of a dodge dually would be allowed @ 19600lbs the front @9800. if he had a trailer with 2 axles with the same size tires as the dually he can legally scale 34k on the trailer (not 20k and 20k because they are tandem axles) so add all that up...
I just talked to the state police. the manufacturer limits are for civil litigation.
state motor carriers are interested in what your gross weight is and if you are legally plated for it and what your axle weights are and if those are legal. The motor carrier I talked to said that those are...
one of the wires under the crane is missing. It powers the light relay on the crane. the wire going to the crane is there. I need to hook a new one up from there to ????? batt.??? aux power somewhere???? not sure where the wire came out of the harness at
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Trailering a deuce
dodge says the GCWR is 24k (for a 2008 ....3500) so if that is the max for combined vehicles it would be overweight.
I am going to call the DOT tomorrow and see what they have to say.
Re: RE: Re: RE: Trailering a deuce
here is a link to a trailer with dual axles and a GVWR of 25,900
http://www.kaufmantrailers.com/heavy-equipment-trailer-store/Gooseneck-Equipment/30Ft,-25,900-lb.-Gooseneck-p25.html
I think the two trucks would be around 20k +-. that would make it legal...
as a mainstay, the trucking company, the driver and the owner of the truck are liable if anything happens. Shippers have been held liable in the past for knowingly loading trucks overweight. I have never heard of them being liable as far as safety goes. probably because that is not the shippers...