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One big problem you will have with a bobbed deuce is that you have removed one axle and effectively reduced the braking capacity by 33%. A good lawyer will argue that the GVW has been reduced by 33% due to the reduced braking capacity.
Weigth carrying capacity of a bobbed deuce!?!
Personally I am against bobbing a duece using either front springs, trailer springs or a trailer sub frame. All of these methods will significantly reduce the load capacity of the rear axle and truck.
If you really want to bob a duece and do it...
You need the fixed version of the hitch. If you run air to air they can bind up due to too much force. This is a real problem with an unloaded dolly or empty trailer, it kind of acts like a dry fifth wheel.
I explained the different size pintle hooks in post 14
The military uses a standard sized swivel pintle hook that us designed to accommodate a standard 3" inside diameter " ID" lunette eye.
Based on the pictures it appears that this dolly is designed to be used with a fixed pintle hook. The 20 ton can accept a 2" inside diameter pintle hook and the...
A lot of the civilian converter dollies are set up for an air actuated pintle hook. This pintle hook has an air can under the frame to take up the slop and eliminate, or reduce, the clunking noise and jerky operation if towing a heavy trailer, 20 tons,on a pintle hook. Due to the fact that these...
CO2 gives you more volume for given size bottle. This is due to CO2 being in a liquid form in the tank and there is an expansion factor of about 10 when it is converted to gas.
Do to the gas conversion you can freeze the regulator and the air tool can get so cold you need gloves. You need to...