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Location: Perkiomenville, PA | Could use some help - quick. Am planning to go buy a 97 Eby 16' stock gooseneck. Its a 3 hr + trip, planned for tomorrow, so need some help from experts here pronto. Here goes -- The seller (a non-Eby dealer) said they measured from ground to underside of gooseneck, and it measures 65". The Eby dealer said at 1997 the underside of their goosenecks was 56". I relayed this to the seller, and they confirmed again the measurement is 65". Am sensitive to the bedrail issue; don't need the body shop on my payroll if you know what I mean  . Anybody know how the trailer can measure 65" when Eby said that year should be 56"? I pull a 4 star LQ with this truck - no problem, but its a later model. Any issue with trailer supports anyone can help me with? Sure don't need THIS problem... 
Hoping for some quick advice here. I'll be checking the axles, structure, lights/brakes, tires and tire wear - all the normal stuff. Its freshing PA inspected. Just hoping for some insight on the clearance issue. Thanks! |
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Location: Perkiomenville, PA |  Oh - and here's the trailer -- w~~_3.JPG) |
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Location: Minnesota | I don't understand "from the ground to the bottom of the gooseneck." In the first picture, you can change that problem by extending the stem of the goosenck to raise the nose. |
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Location: Perkiomenville, PA | Only if you want to overweight your rear axle and offbalance your load. Also, you will have a breakpoint at the rear of the gooseneck where it is now heading downhill right towards the rear of your bedrail. |
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Location: Vermont | Originally written by evallone on 2010-12-02 11:00 PM
Could use some help - quick. Am planning to go buy a 97 Eby 16' stock gooseneck. Its a 3 hr + trip, planned for tomorrow, so need some help from experts here pronto. Here goes -- The seller (a non-Eby dealer) said they measured from ground to underside of gooseneck, and it measures 65". The Eby dealer said at 1997 the underside of their goosenecks was 56". I relayed this to the seller, and they confirmed again the measurement is 65". Am sensitive to the bedrail issue; don't need the body shop on my payroll if you know what I mean . Anybody know how the trailer can measure 65" when Eby said that year should be 56"? I pull a 4 star LQ with this truck - no problem, but its a later model. Any issue with trailer supports anyone can help me with? Sure don't need THIS problem...
Hoping for some quick advice here. I'll be checking the axles, structure, lights/brakes, tires and tire wear - all the normal stuff. Its freshing PA inspected. Just hoping for some insight on the clearance issue. Thanks!
The most efficient way to solve this sort of problem is with a deck... http://www.hillsboroindustries.com/Photos/images/AluminumTruckBed4-... |
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Location: NY | I have an eby and the truck clears is good from what I can see eby makes there trailers with bigger clearer than soom others just my view |
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Location: Perkiomenville, PA | Thank you. You SURE are right about that! I use my truck for a real estate rehab business, and so the sides are important to me. Anyway, I did not buy the trailer. It was only 6' wide. I neglected to check the width. Newer Eby's start at 6'6" and so I wasn't accustomed to the narrower possibility. |
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97 Eby Gooseneck with 2006 Ram 2500 4 X 4 short bed;){kind=icon}
