Not sure I understand this right or not, but get this done before traveling and not on route. Speed reading through this though.

Get it done along the way = Time wasted on trip????

Along the way? Why would you think of something like that? If anything does start to come undone with the frame separating / bending out of shape it will cost you a lot more on the road. There must be a welder / fabricator in your area that knows how to reinforce frames. Check with the RV places to see if they can recommend someone. I know in my small town there's a custom trailer builder that does that type of reinforcements on hitches and frames.

I am not towing the trailer on that trip in April, nor will i tow more than a small car. Just looking for the best shop that will do the job, and the trip allows me a very large area to pick from. There is one shop that has been around forever within 30 miles of home if I don't find a good option along the way.

The frame extension is not held together by the plywood. It is attached to the frame by a large plate that overlaps both frames. Bolted and welded together. Have you ever looked at the frame extensions on a class A motorhome?? Some are the same size and well built, some are not!!

I looked at a few diesel pusher class A motorhomes before I bought my gas powered Class A motorhome. 2 of the diesel motorhomes were a joke, where the extension frame was mounted. The chassis frame was about 10" or 12" in height. Then the extension frame was only 5" or 6", and about 10' long. There was no way that that was strong enough for towing heavy load.

My motorhome has the same size extension frame as the chassis frame, and is only about 3' or 4' long.

That is the same thing we saw with the pushers we looked at. We ended up looking for a 30ft and found a 32 to keep from having the extensions at all.

All good info. I pull my 28' enclosed all around with Ole Rusty, I mean ole trusty. Hoping to get another 2 years our of my 2500 V10 Ram. I have been looking at newer dually 3500 Rams but for the price of them I am thinking a diesel pusher would be a better investment. The entire Family can also use it for camping if I am not using it for racing.

I am not 100% sure if they do hitch work, but they do everything else and could recommend a shop in Minnesota or Wisconsin that can handle it. Jim is a Mopar guy and has a restoration shop as well.

http://jimstruckandtrailercoachwerks.com/about-us/

Well, not that you will listen anyway, but:

I'm 31' with my Gulfstream F53 V10 and it's 18,300 empty. You are probably around 22,000, so you can only go another 6,000 at the most. I know in my Gulfstream literature mine has the same 5500 pound hitch as the 34 and 37 foot models

You will be over-loaded.

No ifs, ands, buts, or bigger hitch about it. There's a reason why your Coach put that big sticker in your back closet. These RV's get crashed all the time so Enforcement do know to pull you over if they see that humongous trailer on there and check your weights.

You know what it costs to have a Class A and enclosed car hauler towed back to your house? Do you know what the fine is in your State?

I don't like it anymore than you do (I'd like to pull an enclosed too). If you find a legal way around it, I'd like you to let me know. I DO have a way around it on mine, but it won't work on yours. Otherwise, this is it for an F53: 5400 pounds:

Lots of problems are also due to being captain lead foot towing.

We have 3 class A motor homes. All of them are 45 foot tags, and they all do fine towing whatever we put behind them, though some trailers do less moving around with equalizer hitches.

Another real problem, that i have bad experience with is the shock loads transferred to the trailer from long overhang class A's. These shocks when you're driving too fast over whatever the road has to offer will tear he tongue off the trailer. The bus suspension doesn't care about what the trailer needs in the way of softening the tongue hits when the chassis hits bumps.

I was pulling a heavy steel stacker in one with a 600hp cummins through virgina at about 85 mph over the hills, and across the bridges. some of the transitions from bridge to road were ROUGH. I'd hauled this thing all over for years. Then snap! the hitch on the trailer broke in two. Next the stack is sideways on the freeway with the emergency brakes starting to work, that sent it onto 3 wheels and down the hill into a bank where the new cadillac CTS V was fired a quarter out the front of the trailer.

Moral is, take it easy lol.

If someone wants to post pics of it I have them on photobucket, but I'm not allowed to post pics (too cheap to pay them.)

[quote=dthemi]Lots of problems are also due to being captain lead foot towing.

Exactly. I feel a lot better towing 55 to 62 mph . braking distance is greatly reduced, stress on the coach and trailer is way down, and almost always there is a lot of room between me and the next vehicle.