Im tryn to get started on a front weight bracket for my truck. Livin on a farm i have access to a lot of different size suitcase weights, so thats what ill be using. I was jus trying to figure out the best way to make one, as well as how to get it to the frame. So any thoughts and ideas will help


thanks
mitchell

 

You can do like I did. I have a ranchhand, so I took a receiever and welded a bar to it and hung 4 Massey weights to it. Not much, Im going to make a better one soon. Pictures in gallery...

 

So is there anyone that has any suggestions?

 

what i did i took a one of them hitches with the square hole off the back of my truck when i got a dmi bumper. the frame rails on my truck get narrower in the front so i just cut i think it was 3 inches of driver side of the hitch welded it back together and braced it a lot. then after a few drilling holes in the frame bolted it right up. It worked out good this way i get most of the weight on the drivers side. then for the auctual rack it is just a old ball hitch that the ball part was cut off and a flat peice of steel welded to it. i will take some pictures of it sometime. i just use a ratchet strap to hold the IH suitcase weights on there.(but they dont move some pulls they require them to be secured) i can hang 800 lbs on it.

for the second gens they make front hitches. and EEP sells them as well.

 

I made a front 2" receiver hitch like ihpower. I used 1/8" wall 2.25" square tubing for the cross pieces and 3/8" plate that attached to the sides of the frame where the stock bumper bolts fasten. Then I made a 6x18x1/2" plate to mount the suitcase weights and welded that (with gussets) to a 2x2" square tubing. The weight carrier slid inside the front receiver and held 750-1000 lbs of weight.

brandon.

 

how come yall want more weight ono the front end

 

For sled pulling, and in my case, pulling other trucks (or trying!)

 

when pulling a sled the chain you hook to is at the bottem of the sled so it pulls the back end of the truck down, no weight need there sled prvides enough down force. That takes weight off of the front end and front tires dont get good traction, no good. Simple solution, add weight to the front end.

 

ah i see i just had no idea what yall were talkin about