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Not totally but it did help. It floats. I made a mistake by putting the shocker hitch on my trailer. If you have a standard hitch it helps to keep the porpoise movement to a minimum. Before I installed the shocker hitch it did actually pull without the surges.

​Man so with the air ride the shocker is unnecessary?

Thank you.

I don’t remember what those are specifically. I have changed pumps several times to get the speed I wanted. The drive motors I can see if I can get some numbers off. The pumps are cheap I use surplus center dot com for most of my stuff and eBay

Yes it does. I don’t do commercial anymore I only haul my personal stuff so I don’t have to worry about scales.

Yes there is a video of it

Yes I can do any trailer

The canal companies along the verde river have the power to do anything they want. Still the old west. If you contact The verde ditch company they will have their attorney attack you. They lie about everything and get away with it.

I really don’t know but Supposedly it’s a shift inside the transmission from a low to high range or like a shaft change. The transmission was built to handle 1,000 HP with a GVW of 56,000 pounds at 100% duty cycle. I don’t know transmissions so I can’t say but it’s been several years now and it’s still exactly same.

@@stacyp4534 I wonder if the stage 1 Allison's from ats do the same. ATS is about to release the kit for the early 3rd gens. I'm told should be ready by the end of this month. Can't wait to get this crappy 47re on the garage floor

@@hey_youtubeim_back2159 I gotta say I have been extremely happy except for the leak I cannot find. I have had the transmission re-sealed, I’ve had the torque converter pressure tested, I’ve changed the transmission lines twice and I cannot find the leak. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

@@stacyp4534 are you using an external fluid cooler or is it the one that goes into the radiator? If you're using ELC coolant is it possible that the red transmission fluid is mixing with the coolant and you just don't notice it or is the league prevalent enough that you have to add transmission fluid on a regular basis?

Aside from that I would check the top of the transmission for leaks out of the Overflow vent

When I broke the frame I was hauling with the trailer about 36,000 pounds. Plus while doing the air ride modification I had welded to the frame on the bottom. That is exactly where the frame broke. It didn’t really break it ripped the frame kind of pealed it. It was too much weight combined with welding. The frame on those dodges is very capable.

@@stacyp4534 Thanks for the reply. Its to bad that you lost this great ride. When I had read that you had modifies the suspension with the bags and four link, I kind of thought there might have been some welding involved. I know that when I bought the 04, there was a lot of chatter about Dodge not wanting you to do anything to the hydro formed frames, in fact they didn't want you to drill any holes. I know it is not going to be the best but I think that I will be OK at about 26,000 GVW. I am going do some more research to verify that there is a TCM to work with the 04 platform so I will be able to all the functions of the truck. Have to keep the wife happy if she need to drive the truck. I am looking to have the truck function as close to original as possible. I think there is someone by the name of Jason that has the programming down. I am looking to use a SAE #3 Allison transmission bell housing along with the Cummins adapter, allowing the use of the Dodge starter on the left side of the engine. I need to start looking for some old school bus's to locate these parts. I have the wacky idea of replacing my 5.9 with a Cummins 6.7 crate engine seeing that I done need to worry about EPA requirements. It would be much cheaper than replacing the truck with a current model. Did you upgrade the transmission with billet input and output shafts? Any problem with the flexplate? I know that you were pulling a lot of HP from your engine.

Stacy, I see that you had 3.73 gears. Did you do any pulling in the mountains with the Allison and 3.73's? I am running 4.10's and talking with Dually Depot in Elkhart Indiana, they thought that was 2 much gearing and the 3.73 would be better. With the HP and Torque you had, the 3.73 would have been no problem.

@@sandipelczynski8003 I still have the truck. It’s a monster even in mountains. I fixed the frame then fish plated it. Totally rebuilt. I now mostly use an international CV-515 but the dodge will run circles around the international.

Hi, the rear axle ratio on my dodge is 3.73. My son in law locked up the rear axle as the dodge axle carrier is made of cast iron and the spider gear pins wear grooves in the carrier then cause the rear axle to lock up. I put an old school Detroit locker in it with everything in the axle new.

The wiring is very neatly done.

It’s been about 3 or 4 years and it still working perfectly. If a person can afford it I highly recommend converting to an Allison.

That makes me so happy to hear that!!! Awesome I can’t wait to get mine going here soon.

@@DanielFernandez-pg4zc I AM IN THE TALKS WITH CAC RIGHT NOW FOR THE CONVERSION ON MY 2020 2500 AND CAN NOT WAIT! ANY NEGITIVES IF ANY HAVE YOU BOYS NOTICED?

In Arizona we are lucky. On trailers there’s only 2 registrations for trailers. Both have permanent tags. They are registered below 10,000 pounds GVW and the other is above 10,000 pounds GVW. We don’t have to worry about the stupidity like other states. All axles count that’s why in Arizona you see dump trucks with pusher axles added to old trucks that weren’t sold with them.