Too Heavy

I took my jeep to have the home fabbed receiver hitch installed. I would call it a Draw Tite for clarity, but I think Draw Tite is a name brand.

It's basically a 3" square tube spanning horrizontally the width of the frame rails with another piece of maybe 2-1/2" ID (whatever the outside diameter of the actual hitch is) welded perpendicular to that.

I'm having him weld some plate steel to each end of the 3" stuff for mounting brackets.

He's also making me a plate to mount my tag to the tire carrier.

Also, I didn't like the bracket that holds the tire to the carrier, so I'm having him cut that off and weld my side mount carrier in it's place.

And he's going to add one more support bracket to the carrier.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to have too much weight back there. Is anyone else running alot of weight in the rear of their rig? Problems?? Sagging maybe?

 

I think Lynn said he had either longer shackles or an extra leaf in the back, to compensate for his tire carrier.

I'd say you'll probably notice a difference with the new bumper, tire carrier, spare tire, Jerry can(s), and hitch... That's a good bit of weight.

BTW John - your work email address is f'd up again...

 

Again???? Crap!!!! Let me delete a few things and try again.

 

Thanks...I had forgotten I also wanted to mount my hi-lift back there. No gas tank though. Just can't find anywhere to put it that wouldn't look out of proportion.

Honestly, I think my add-a-leafs even though they ride pretty rough help strengthen the springs quite a bit. You mentioned adding the leaf and it reminded me of them.

 

I've got a rack on the back holding two 5 gallon metal cans and the spare (33/12.5 15) and it sits pretty level. Though the small chevy and 9000# Warn up front might have something to do with it.

 

From my guess, I don't think you are near enough weight to really cause any real sag in your springs. Of course I am thinking of stock spring set up. Not sure how strong those lift springs are compared to stock springs. I would think they are even stronger.

One thing is be sure that if it is getting tail heavy, you don't mess up any real handling characteristics while driving on the highway. Jeeps are not at all forgiving at highway speeds on a wet highway.

 

When I took my rear pto winch off the rear end lifted back up almost level (+/- 2") but I definitely does not ride as smooth. I estimate that my rear winch set up was around 300 lbs.