I need to lengthen my pup tongue by 2'. It seems the easiest way to do it would be to use a 2" diameter piece of rod then weld/bolt the rod to a new pintle eye. My question is what type of steel does the rod need to be? I don't want it to bend easily, but snapping would also be bad. I can go with a thicker rod, but the end will have to be turned down to 2" OD to fit into the existing trailer tongue. The pup will never exceed 36K pounds, I have no way of measuring the down force on the tongue.
Can you post some pictures? A 2' long 2" rod is not going to be a good idea
The lower pic is the other end that I have to work with.
that looks like a premier 207 swivel eye. the proper way to lengthen the tongue would involve re-working the square tubing part of the tongue,and looks like new bushings and swivel eye are in order
Most definitely lengthen square tube. Should not a big deal for a descent welder. Get a tube that slides iver you existing tube about 4' long. Cut holes to plug weld and notch the ends so you have no welds straight across main tube
Most definitely lengthen square tube. Should not a big deal for a descent welder. Get a tube that slides iver you existing tube about 4' long. Cut holes to plug weld and notch the ends so you have no welds straight across main tube
A new reach isn't all that much money, extending the ring or the reach (By welding) starts messing with an engineered design. For the cost of a reach, I would not do any welding. There are enough old pups sitting around you can probably buy a complete reach for the cost of scrap plus a six pack.
1466ih has the right idea - a full length piece of tube be pretty expensive these days, Jumbo - I had to by a reach last summer , to get 1/4 inch wall I had to order through farwest in kent, of course the 7x9 is probably a little more pricey than standard structural sizes
For this summer I can get by running it as is. By my math I can only gross 78 and change - shouldn't be a big deal this year. I'll have it set up longer for next year.