single wheels to duals?

[TRACTJDS0428]

What issues am I looking at making my single rear wheel into a dually? Found a free really nice dually bed and thinkin it may be easier to throw duals on. Suggestions? Pics?

[RumbleFish]

Youll need a drw pickup axle, 6 wheels/tires, and drw front hubs. DO NOT leave your srw wheels on the front or youll face ridicule from bill gilbert.

[CumminsPower59]

DO NOT leave your srw wheels on the front or youll face ridicule.

And not just from Bill.

SRW fronts with duals on the rear

[PToombs]

Put the simulator hubcaps on the front and the peckerheads won't know the difference unless they climb under it!

[TRACTJDS0428]

Somebody said there are bolt on spacers available to be able to put duals on a srw truck. My concerm would be strength. What do you guys think?

[boomer]

I did what your thinking of doing....and found it was a mistake. Yes - you can find front adapters to mount to your existing hubs...and yes you can find the duals to install. but the geometry doesn't perform well...I have a 3/4 ton d250 cummins - and the original buyer ordered a 1 ton rear end to pull 5th wheels with more capacity (maybe a dana 80 or 70hd) the truck got very squirrel y - didn't like any changes in pavement at all...would "chase" any elevation changes. I hated it. I went back to srw within a month...and wa-la...the truck drives great.

What is your motivation for wanting 6 wheels anyway...capacity?
John

[bgilbert]

Duallies look better! Do it! But you gotta get the dually front hubs or your truck could end up like boomer's was ^. lol

[CumminsPower59]

And to be DOT legal, you'll have top add clearance lights on top of the cab, and have functioning side markers and rear cluster on the tailgate area...most DOT enforcement types rarely care, but there is always that a$$ out there that will get ya for it.

[TRACTJDS0428]

I did what your thinking of doing....and found it was a mistake. Yes - you can find front adapters to mount to your existing hubs...and yes you can find the duals to install. but the geometry doesn't perform well...I have a 3/4 ton d250 cummins - and the original buyer ordered a 1 ton rear end to pull 5th wheels with more capacity (maybe a dana 80 or 70hd) the truck got very squirrel y - didn't like any changes in pavement at all...would "chase" any elevation changes. I hated it. I went back to srw within a month...and wa-la...the truck drives great.

What is your motivation for wanting 6 wheels anyway...capacity?
John

Honestly. ...a free dually bed . I think I have a srw bed now. But when I posted this I couldnt find one and my gpa was gonna give me a dually bed for free if I wanted it.

[TRACTJDS0428]

And to be DOT legal, you'll have top add clearance lights on top of the cab, and have functioning side markers and rear cluster on the tailgate area...most DOT enforcement types rarely care, but there is always that a$$ out there that will get ya for it.

Already have top clearance lights.

[CumminsPower59]

And to be DOT legal, you'll have top add clearance lights on top of the cab, and have functioning side markers and rear cluster on the tailgate area...most DOT enforcement types rarely care, but there is always that a$$ out there that will get ya for it.

Already have top clearance lights.

Your one step ahead of the game if you do convert to duals