Duallys can be awesome!

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Seems 'optimistically' priced, and is currently lacking a chain-gun...
but I like it!

crackhead price but great truck.

my dually is awesome, but only because it makes me money...and is black...and has a 454.

I'm oddly attracted to slammed duallies, especially these OBS Chevys.

Yeah, slammed chevy duallies usually look pretty good to me. Especially this one.

i like them better when they are in their stock configuration so they can still do what they were designed to do- a truck is a tool to me, and i don't get why someone would take a tool that is designed to haul several tons of stuff at once and then make it so it can't do that any more..

but it's not my truck and not my money, so i guess it's not my business..

alex wrote: I'm oddly attracted to slammed duallies, especially these OBS Chevys.

Me too.

Even still looks useful to me. Might not be able to tow a 5th wheel camper easily, but still workable. It just depends on the bags that got used.

i don't get why someone would take a tool that is designed to haul several tons of stuff at once and then make it so it can't do that any more..

Depending on the parts used it's possible a rig like the one were talking about COULD still maintain all it's original payload capacity.

This is not news. Smart people like myself have known of the joys of dually ownership for years.

novaderrik wrote: i like them better when they are in their stock configuration so they can still do what they were designed to do- a truck is a tool to me, and i don't get why someone would take a tool that is designed to haul several tons of stuff at once and then make it so it can't do that any more.. but it's not my truck and not my money, so i guess it's not my business..

As was mentioned, lowered trucks can still haul payloads and tow well. They just look bettter doing it. ;) I've lowered many trucks that still fulfilled their truckish duty.

I desperately want to do that and then lower it.

yeah i've been wishing for a long time that someone would make a super single 16" rim and tire combo for a dually.

at one point i bought some awesome 19.5" rims and tires for mine, but then a guy wanted to pay me more than 2x what i paid for them. needless to say i still have 16's.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person who wants super singles on a dually.

novaderrik wrote: i like them better when they are in their stock configuration so they can still do what they were designed to do- a truck is a tool to me, and i don't get why someone would take a tool that is designed to haul several tons of stuff at once and then make it so it can't do that any more.. but it's not my truck and not my money, so i guess it's not my business..

I agree with Derrick here, Looking at my 79 Dually, to get it that low takes one heck of a C-notch and possibly a body drop as well. Not sure I want to try and tow heavy trailers and loads with a frame that has been basically cut in half (then C-notch added). People have done it, just not something I want to do.

81cpcamaro wrote: I agree with Derrick here,

then two of you can be wrong together.

No one's telling you to do it, so you don't have to do it. But you should know that you're wrong about it making the truck useless for truck duties.

That original truck would be perfect for towing around my Olive drab Civic, shame it's only 2 hours away and I have no cash of that magnitude.

I certainly wouldn't want to C-notch the frame, but I'm not a tall man, and get annoyed with how high I have to lift things to put them in bed of late model trucks.

81cpcamaro wrote:

novaderrik wrote: i like them better when they are in their stock configuration so they can still do what they were designed to do- a truck is a tool to me, and i don't get why someone would take a tool that is designed to haul several tons of stuff at once and then make it so it can't do that any more.. but it's not my truck and not my money, so i guess it's not my business..

I agree with Derrick here, Looking at my 79 Dually, to get it that low takes one heck of a C-notch and possibly a body drop as well. Not sure I want to try and tow heavy trailers and loads with a frame that has been basically cut in half (then C-notch added). People have done it, just not something I want to do.

Then let's examine what a typical "C-notch" really is. It's nothing more then a raised section of similar thickness metal, if not slightly thicker, mimicing the frame. Now most of the bolt in notches are typically 8-grade 8 1/2" diameter bolts to join the notch back to the frame on each framerail. Do I think that is enough? No. Look at most of the commercial chassis out there. They are bolted together sections with 8 bolts, but they are in the 3/4" diameter variety. I believe to really be "fail safe" you need another pair of bolts or increased diameter for load hauling. If you want to weld in your notch, have at it. I prefer this to bolting, but if you don't have a welder, yadda, yadda, yadda. One of the things I see is no one includes is some reinforcement plates to the welded area. I wouldn't just trust a butt welded frame together to survive rolling over a piece of pea gravel in my driveway, much less having any load capacity. And if you are really paranoid, just box the frame after you are finished. Problem solved, especially if you used a welded in boxed tubing notch.

Do I have a problem with putting in a notch? Heck no. Would I have some reservations over towing 12k# on a gooseneck trailer? Not really. Most of the frame aft of the rearend housing is along for the ride anyways.

love this line from the ad...

"To all the car shows, events, etc, to work, walmart, everywhere. "

Hmmmm.... after watching Mecum all week, I learned something. They had a 1996 or so Chevy dually that was lowered (not slammed but pretty close). They called it a "phantom dually" because it still had the dually fenders but was running a single rear wheel. Of course the single wheel was like 15" wide but I really liked it. Doing a Google image search shows a lot of "phantom duallys". Oh and that Michelin Super-Single on that maroon King Ranch is all sorts of awesome. I always wondered if anybody had ever done that.

In reply to stanger_missle:

Actually in the early days of lowering FS Chevys, most of the guys were buying dually beds and putting them on their 1/2 tons. You just cut out the offending box side sheetmetal and it was stupid easy to put on some 17" wide ProTracs or MickeyT's. Which is exactly what the second picture shows, the 5 lug front wheel gives it away.

In reply to Ranger50:

I wouldn't use one of those premade c notches to tow a trailer but cutting the chassis and adding reinforcments similar to this can be made plenty strong.

In reply to Wally:

I agree. But there are some people out there that will just lay enough weld bead around to hold it together and call it good. Plus I'm wondering why In that Z'd frame they just didn't use a piece of box tubing to make the reinforcement and lower the heat effected zones. But oh well, I'm just quarterbacking from my recliner.

In reply to Ranger50:

Yeah, I totally missed the 5 lugs hahaha. That would make sense.

I remember when I was 14 or so and digging through the JC Whitney catalog. They had aftermarket dually fenders and dually adapters for half ton trucks. I wanted my buddy to buy those and put them on his 1984 Nissan pickup. He and I thought it would be pretty cool but his parents thought we were nuts LOL.