woah woah woah, the outside duals are standard ranger wheels mounted backwards? what do you have in there connecting them together?

Technically they are explorer rims but you are right. It's being held on by 8" extension studs with a sleeve around them.

Im trying to picture your setup but im having trouble so i doodled what i have in mind https://imgur.com/J6eRgud

Close. Kind of. Here is the build thread for it. Have pictures of the setup.
http://www.fordrangerforum.com/proj.....uddmutt-2.html

I'll be honest. That dually setup looks extremely unsafe, lug nuts aren't designed to be load bearing, that's what the center hub bore is for. The weight of a wheel is going to be dangerous on simple 5 lug studs that are shared for use on a crown Victoria will fail if you put any sort of weight on the outside wheel o.o let alone a whole other truck based gooseneck trailer. It might be best to actually put an 8 bolt axle under it and run real dually wheels

You have some great points and its really hard to say how finicky the spacers will be from just looking at pictures.

I've never personally worked on a dually axle so I'm no pro.

The shim / sleeve that he had made that goes over the assembly looks like it should take some of the weight and keep everything somewhat stable.

Towing would certainly be a bit spooky, just because you made some mods I don't believe you are safe towing something more then the stock rated capacity. I think he did it mostly for looks though which should be fine.


If he every swapped the rear axle out for a big old ford 10.5 it would certainly be way stronger / safer setup.

If the hub did hold it center I would agree with you but it's the studs and nuts that center the ranger wheel. I never plan on exceeding the Rangers pay loud nor tow capacity it's just everything it to help dramatize and distribute wieght. Dually or not anything will fail if exceed what it's max rating is. Most I'm doing is putting more load on the bearings which on the old truck I had it set up as a dually for five years and never had to do deal or bearings on the axle.

Just be careful man, would hate to see someome with your ambition and vision hurt yourself with hardware failure. It's just worrying when i know how little force it takes to bust those lugs

Thanks for your concern. Don't think I have much to worry about since the other truck had 220000 miles on it and I put 90000 on it with the dually kit.

Looks great man!

Thanks

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I don’t know much, but I know that I love trucks and I know that this is amazing!