Author Topic: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport  (Read 23140 times)

Offline ricardo1967

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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2014, 12:52:49 PM »
If you can bear with my crappy video, here's what I've had good luck using to stabilize my chassis during towing.
The video is on the entire trailer, but if you skip to about 30 seconds in you can see my chassis saver.



Hey RacinJacin,

Small world... I've seen this video before, awesome setup. That's the Cadillac of the flat bed trailers.

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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2014, 02:10:40 PM »
What a nice set up.
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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2014, 02:26:58 PM »
Thanks for the kind words guys!

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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2014, 05:23:29 PM »
Nice! Some serious "engineering" there!

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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2014, 05:28:55 PM »
Jon, car is loaded, and tied down , I just kick the thing under the frame rail and its good to go, dont need to go into a big production about it

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Re: bracing under dragster in trailer during transport
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2014, 12:02:37 PM »
Very nice trailer Jacin!
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