Finishing Touch
Finally, there’s one more thing this truck has going for it, and it’s not even on the truck itself: the fifth wheel trailer has its own Kelderman air suspension on it. It works in tandem with the leaf springs and hooks up with all the electrical hookups in the truck. Jordan is very excited about it. “Not too many people are running around with a fifth wheel airbag system, and I tell you what, it works great! It didn’t add any height to the fifth wheel, which was a concern of mine. It’s just a helper system with the springs. The springs sit in a little bit, but the air bags keep them from compressing too much and it just works, man.”
So how does Jordan feel about the end result? “It’s not some high horsepower super lifted showpiece that you’re just going to take to truck shows,” he says. “I don’t want to offend any of those kinds of guys, because they build some badass stuff, no doubt. But from where I’m coming from, it doesn’t have a whole lot of useful day-to-day potential, so I wanted to build something that people could do themselves and be able to use every day. I wanted something solid and strong that was going to pull this thing without hesitation. We’ve been out camping with it a few times and have had no issues whatsoever. I was kind of worried about that, because anytime you do a project like this there are unforeseen circumstances. I’m not saying that it won’t happen, but so far, we’re just solid and reliable, which was my main concern.”
Solid and reliable is certainly what this build is, no question. It’s built to go the distance, and Jordan has shown that it is more than capable of doing just that.