[455Grandville]

Big Tex trailers are very strong, but they’re also heavy.

[Rocco Testa]

Chief you know you need to take the Big block out and put in a Pontiac engine. From your picture by you name you have a Firebird. You run that also? That is a good Idea with the lines I'll be painting my enclosed trailer deck.

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by Rocco Testa

Chief you know you need to take the Big block out and put in a Pontiac engine.

LOL! Okay Arnie.

Actually, I have been collecting parts to put a 1471 blower on it. But that may change as I'm kind of digging the clean look of the new Pro-Stocks with fuel injection. I could get it all under a stock flat hood. Or I may just say screw it and sell it to buy a Kauffman powered '62 Cat I've had my eye on.

[Bob Hall]

Originally Posted by 455Grandville

Big Tex trailers are very strong, but they’re also heavy.

This 18’ Big Tex weighed 3200 lbs as seen here.


The gravity tilt was very nice but it was 4 inches narrower then my current 20’ custom built beaver tail non tilting trailer which weighs 2800 lbs. I don’t need to take the fender off now. The bad part is I seem to drag the back of the trailer everywhere now. I need to replace my 5” drop hitch with a 7” to see if that helps.



The dragging is worse with the 3500

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[Chief of the 60's]

Typical GM truck. Sits ass end high, put 500 lbs. in the back and the ass end drops to the ground. That is why I only tow with a Ford or a Dodge. They don't squat to the ground like they're peeing when work calls.

[Bob Hall]

Originally Posted by Chief of the 60's

Typical GM truck. Sits ass end high, put 500 lbs. in the back and the ass end drops to the ground. That is why I only tow with a Ford or a Dodge. They don't squat to the ground like they're peeing when work calls.

You spelled Ford wrong.
Read what I wrote again. I wish my 3500 would squat and the 2500 before would have squatted. If it squatted the rear of my current trailer wouldn't drag and I wouldn't have to buy a 7" drop. When we use my current trailer for the auction business we have to hook it to the Fords so the rear doesn't drag when we come out of peoples driveways.
It barely moves with my 5th wheel camper attached even scaled at 2000lb pin weight.

My truck and the boss's 2017 F250 picked up 2 skids of lump coal back in February weighing 1500lbs each. His was sitting on the bump stops while mine squatted an inch but only because the bulk of the skids weight was behind my rear wheels as it sat at the tailgate since I have an 8' bed.

Even with a car on that trailer it still is nose high. I really wish my truck squatted like you claim they do. I'll save on spray paint touching up the underside of my trailer every time I take it out. With that being said, the only time my current trailer won't drag is when the guy with the Tundra hooks up to. At night he'll blind semi truckers with his headlights.

But anyway, I honestly regret having mine made with a 4' beaver tail. I should have done 2'.

[Chief of the 60's]

LOL! Who's is this? Must have lowering springs in the back I guess.

[Chief of the 60's]

There is about 1750 lbs. in the back of this and the trailer.

[Bob Hall]

Truck we picked up to be auctioned off with a 454 jammed in it and there were 3 Ford blocks and other various junk sitting in the bed. Messed up my spray in liner bad that day. And my tailgate got wounded when it was unloaded.

Anyway...how come in my pic my trailer is still nose high and in your pic, your trailer is nose diving?

[Bob Hall]

Back to the OP question.
https://www.mentzercustomtrailers.com/

The above is who I had my current trailer made by. If I would have had to do it all over again, I would have gone with a 2' beaver tail rather then 4' and I would have had the fenders sit higher so that I could run 225/75/15 ST tires rather then the 205/75/15 ST tires. I briefly swapped out to the appropriate weight rated wheel and went to the taller tire but the tires started to rub the fenders at highway speeds. Been kicking around the idea of selling the trailer through the auction where people have been paying stupid money for trailers and having another one built.

[Rocco Testa]

Higher fenders to put on a larger tire may be good but on some cars you won't be able to open the doors of the car. That is why some trailers have the fenders removable. On my trailer I had that problem at times, so when it came to installing new fenders because of rust I made them removable.

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by Bob Hall

Anyway...how come in my pic my trailer is still nose high and in your pic, your trailer is nose diving?

Look again. The trailer is flat. The way it should be for safe towing. And did you miss the part where I said there was about 1750 lbs. in the back?

[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by Bob Hall

This 18’ Big Tex weighed 3200 lbs as seen here.


The gravity tilt was very nice but it was 4 inches narrower then my current 20’ custom built beaver tail non tilting trailer which weighs 2800 lbs. I don’t need to take the fender off now. The bad part is I seem to drag the back of the trailer everywhere now. I need to replace my 5” drop hitch with a 7” to see if that helps.



The dragging is worse with the 3500

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I didn’t get the drop deck as clearance would have been an issue with all the off road tracks I go to, which are often down really rutted up nasty dirt roads.