- Good things. They come in pairs.
Don't believe me?
What about Twix?
Those come in pairs, right?
Hashtag: Right Twix for the win.
Or Kit Kats they also come in pairs!
What about the Reese's peanut butter cups?
Those come in pairs too!
Now I know what you're thinking and.
No, we haven't completely flipped the script on you here,
and started selling candy bars at Custom Offsets,
although like, that'd be pretty cool,
because I do love me some candy bars, but,
you know who doesn't love a good ol' fashioned
Reese's peanut butter cup.
And much like that
chocolatey peanut butter filled goodness
that is the holy grail of candies.
There's also a truck that comes in pairs.
But. Why would you need one?
Who on earth thought this was a good idea
in the first place?
I'm Dustin with the Custom Offsets.
You guys can follow me on Instagram @dusti.co
And today we're going over dually trucks
and just why you might wonder.
Let's do it.
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Alright. So side note,
before we get started in this whole debacle:
Like I just can't explain how or what
or why makes me love them so damn much!
But, I love 'em!
They're wide. They're nasty.
They're ready to tow like 30,000 pounds.
What more could a guy want?
Maybe it's just like, the inner farm kid in me
or something, that just wants like big wheels
and rolling on the gravel
and hauling stuff run.
I don't really know.
But what I know is that I love dually trucks
and while that's not super relevant to the video,
I just wanted to get this one out there because,
well, you just got to understand that,
that's why we're carrying so much energy in this video.
Just.
But where did dually trucks come from?
Well, the exact origin is unknown.
We can say for certain that before 1973, a
didn't really exist.
Sure. Yeah, you could go down to your local truck dealer
and get a cab with dual rear wheels on the chassis,
but it didn't come with a bed
as it was considered a commercial vehicle.
Instead they came from the factory with
either just a flat bed or with no bed at all,
leaving you to your own devices.
That all changed, however, in 1973,
when General Motors introduced what would become
the first dually pickup truck ever.
See, before then, pickup manufacturers
had not yet paired a heavy duty dual wheel chassis
with a pickup bed because, you know,
the wheels would have like stuck up past the bedsides,
right?
GM solution to this
was a set of fiberglass over fenders
that mimics the shape of the stepside beds,
except those wider,
and went on the outside to cover the tires.
These new wider fenders would allow GM
to begin producing a dual wheeled pickup truck.
And it set the world on fire.
Now I know it seems simple, right?
But at the time, nothing like this existed
and people absolutely ate it up.
Suddenly farmers, ranchers, race, car drivers,
and weekend warrior campers
could get a truck built heavy enough to haul,
even the toughest of cargo,
while also being practical and comfortable
for daily driving.
Perhaps one of the best things General Motors did when it
came to dually trucks,
was that they promoted it
and they promoted it.
Rather than hide it out on the back page of their brochures,
General Motors plastered this thing everywhere,
which only further fueled customer buying fire
to add icing to the cake.
It would take Ford until 1980,
to produce their first dually.
Meaning that GM had a whopping eight years.
Yes!
Count them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, right?
Eight years of owning the marketplace
for this type of pickup.
Dodge would also follow suit shortly after
and make their own dually
to compare with the other two,
because that's just how it works.
When one guy makes it, then the other guy makes it,
then another guy makes it
and then they just get into this weird,
like back and forth thing where this, you know,
(in kids voice) Mine's better! No! Mine, IS better.
It's like the scene from the Adam Sandler movie, right?
Shampoo - Conditioner.
- Stop looking at me, swan!
- So what makes a dually truck different from an SRW or:
Right?
Well, to address the elephant in the room, dually trucks,
they typically start with, get this, right?
They have to have two rear wheels,
cause, dually, right?
Meaning two.
Typically these wheels are much narrower
than a standard wheel.
Usually coming in at like eight and a quarter
to eight and a half inches wide.
And they have a much different offset
than those wheels of their single rear wheel counterparts.
This is due to the way the rear tire sits on the rear axle.
Meaning that one of the rears must be dished
extremely inwards, like this,
while the other must be dished
extremely outwards, like this.
Aside from the painful obvious point that that is
the biggest difference when it comes to dually trucks
is the tow capacities,
while a brand new Ram 3,500 single rear wheel truck
is rated for like 22,600 pounds of towing capacity.
A brand new 3,500 dually truck with the right options
is rated from the factory,
somewhere around 37,000 pounds.
Yes! You heard that, right.
That's:
You know, just in case you want it to like,
I don't know, move a whole house down the road at once
or something like...
it's actually an option. (laughs)
In addition to the added towing capacity,
dually trucks generally get higher engine output,
usually because of the higher towing capacity.
Again, in the case of the Ram duallys,
here, the difference is staggering
with the 6.7 Cummins high output,
putting out an additional:
over it's standard output brother.
That's a lot of torque!
Like, my first car didn't even make
200 foot pounds of torque. And it's just an engine.
Wow!
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and this is your first time with us.
Then, hey, welcome!
We're thrilled to have you here
and truly appreciate you guys stopping by.
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For that reason, we created this whole gallery,
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a hundred thousand custom trucks,
that feature, all sorts of details.
We're talking, wheel title their sizes, lift details,
and even trimming details to find out what exactly you're
going to need to cut up,
to figure out how you can stuff forties on your Silverado.
Side note.
It doesn't work very well.
Square wheel low thing.
GM kind of... it's just not good.
(beeps)
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So tell me, why would you buy dually
over a regular single rear wheel truck?
Well much like we discussed before,
perhaps the biggest reason to choose a dually truck
would be for towing purposes.
Now, not only are they rated for quite a bit more weight,
but dually trucks are generally going to be more stable.
If you're towing bigger trailers,
like say a 40 plus foot race car hauler,
or even some of those massive flippable campers
that millennials love to buy.
Listen, I get the whole being comfortable thing,
but it's basically a house on wheels.
Besides that dually trucks look fantastic,
in my humble opinion.
And they do nasty burnouts with the four rear tires.
This is where the guys can put in like
some clips of some or some big old, double elevens,
just (blows raspberry) down the road.
Cause it looks awesome.
Duallys are popular with hot shot truckers,
farmers and ranchers.
And of course the welding rigs guys who usually live them,
throw some mud grips on them and then hot rod,
the (beep) of them going down the pipeline build sites.
I know a lot of guys that use this trucks,
but I don't know if I've ever met anyone
that uses this trucks, as much as the welding rig guys do.
Having a dually, isn't all rainbows and unicorns though,
for as awesome as they are for towing
and handling the additional rolling resistance
it does cause them to generally speaking,
get lower fuel economy,
than they single rear wheel counterparts.
Additionally duallys are going to be more expensive
right off the bat than a single rear wheel truck.
And they definitely don't ride as nice
as a single rear wheel trucks would
due to the upgraded towing capacity
and thus, usually stiffer Springs and suspension,
to handle all that dang weight.
Besides all of that though,
wheel and tire fitment on these trucks
can be a bit of a headache,
just because they're six wheels
and literally all six of them are different
On the rear axle, the inner wheels
are different than the outers
and they're usually just a generic steel or aluminum wheel
as you don't see 'em anyway,
they just sit on the inside, right?
Where the magic happens is on the outers.
inner wheels also usually have a super high offset,
to tuck that tire in there under the bed.
The outers on the other hand, like we said,
is where it gets flashy as the low offset requires
to get this wheels to fit properly,
allows you to get a massive lift like:
In terms of front wheels,
guys, typically either run a standard dually wheel,
which is again tucked in, to the,
like the under the side of the truck.
And it's going to keep your turn radius relatively tight
they go on the complete opposite side of things.
They ball up for the gram and throw a 10 or 12 wide upfront.
So you get a massive offset,
and thus a big ol' front lip
right? On your front wheels
cause it's a standard 12 wide.
Both of them can look really great in my opinion.
It really depends on the built.
To further complicate things,
if you want to run an aftermarket or oversized tire,
you need to take into consideration
the offset of the wheels and the rear.
Running a 1250 or 1350 tire may require you to
run a spacer in the rear
to avoid your tires touching, because,
touching tires is a big ol' nope running down the highway.
You get like friction and then like stuff starts a fire.
It's not fun.
What do you guys think about dually trucks?
Do you love them?
Do you hate them? Would you own one?
or better yet?
Let me know down in the comment section below,
if you think that I should buy one,
as it's been on my mind for a hot minute now.
And as always, if you need wheels and tires
for your dually, your half ton,
your three quarter ton, your quarter ton,
your light duty, you know, whatever it is,
we got you CUSTOMOFFSETS.COM
We mount 'em, we bounce 'em, we ship 'em for free.
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With that, We'll see you in the next one.
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