trail riding with a duallie

[blazinzuk]

Has anyone ever done it?

I am not talking hard trails here, mild scenic type trails. The kind where you spend more time looking at scenery and taking pictures of said scenery than looking at the trail.

I realize the hugeness factor with the dually fenders and I realize that it will get scratched somewhat.

I just want to know if any of you guys have ever done it with a dually.

Oddly enough it will have a 205 so I have thought about twin sticking it so I could front dig if I needed to turn quickly and to assist with that changing the e brake system so I could activate on side at a time if needed.

Reason I ask is with recent developments in my family I think my blazer project is going to get pushed off a couple more years (again) so I am thinking a mild lift on the dually and some 35s for now will be the answer.

 

[lectric80]

Eric, hope everything is ok with you and your family. As to trail riding with a dually, I have done it. It wasn't that much worse than riding around in my Blazer, bit rougher obviously, and you do pay more attention to how wide the trail is, but it isn't too bad.

 

[blazinzuk]

Eric, hope everything is ok with you and your family. As to trail riding with a dually, I have done it. It wasn't that much worse than riding around in my Blazer, bit rougher obviously, and you do pay more attention to how wide the trail is, but it isn't too bad.

Nothing bad at all just life and stuff going on.

 

[Blazinaire]

In my minimal experience trail riding a '96 silverado dually, we found ourselves getting softball sized rocks stuck between the duals. We never really aired down enough (~25psi) to get a real bulge either for the fear of the tires rubbing each other, heating up, and possibly failing... but if we had, it might have prevented the rocks from wedging in there. I guess that is just one more reason to have some sort of on board air.

We've gone down some overgrown trails that a jeep would get brushmarks from and the fiberglass dually fenders only suffered the usual pinstriping, so with a little common sense, those shouldn't be a problem.

I was however surprised that it felt like we had less traction on loose steep uphills than a single wheeled equivalent would have had. Nothing the BBC couldn't take care of.

It wouldn't have been my first choice, but all in all it was still fun to just get out wheeling... kinda funny how peoples tow rigs always end up as the trail rig when their trail rig breaks. cough: guilty :cough

 

[yellowK20]

... kinda funny how peoples tow rigs always end up as the trail rig when their trail rig breaks. cough: guilty :cough

Like this???

 

[Blazinaire]

Like this???

I was thinking kinda like this:

 

[blazinzuk]

Yah not so much I am talking like Forest Service type roads something a stock truck could do without much problem.

I would not take my dually out in our dunes. Horton works pretty good out there

 

[colelkhunter]

I am about to start on a dually that I plan to use on the trails. Using h-1 hummer wheels and tires to single it out though. Beater 77 with a big block, 4 spd, and soon a 203/205 doubler. I will start a build thread as soon as I have anything to post. Got some dis-assembly to do.....

 

[cabledawg]

I used to "wheel" my minivan years back. Might have to find that picture..........

 

[original balzer]

One of the nicest 73-87 trucks I have owned was a 84 reg cab dually flatbed 454 4-speed 205. It had a 2" lift and 285x85x16's with 2" wheel spacers in the rear. Anyway I wheeled the wee out of that thing, it didnt flex real well and I also noticed a light rear feel (sounds so weird to say that) seamed to break traction easier than a single wheel truck. BUT after a while it ended up with a 200 gal diesel tank and a tool box full of tools and 2 spare tires. Once it had a little weight it was near unstoppable.

I really wish I had pics of that truck but that was LONG before I had a digital camera.... or any camera come to think of it.