5er dry weight for a 9,500 pound total?
New truck tows 12,600 and gcwr is 19,800. Truck weighs 6700 empty and will weigh no more than 7300 with us and travel goods. Add 300 for hitch we're at 7600, so call it 8000 gross on the truck. If I u...
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TNrob wrote:
I was just trying to figure out a way to "rule of thumb" it backwards from from gross combined weight to a reasonable expectation for truck gross to a final camper weight so I'd have a starting point for shopping. If I know I can rule out anything over X it eliminates a lot of stuff to look at.
If I just assume I'll be pushing max gross on the truck it only leaves 9800 pounds for camper. That seems a safe assumption once I guessed at some weights and ran the numbers back through to see how 20% affects my cargo capacity.
We have no choice but to make some guesses, toss them through the math, and then see if they make sense compared to real world experience. Otherwise we'd have to hook up to everything we looked at a weighed it.
I do appreciate all of the input guys. From the sound of it, if one is going stay on the stickers, throw away any notion of towing capacity. With 5th wheels it looks like the TV gross is usually pushed to near its limits so you might as well plan for that and know going in you have to keep excess **** out of the truck.
All in all very useful. Thanks.
Keep in mind that you need to add the Pin weight to the GCVWR-GVWR, as it becomes part of the GVW.
My 5er weighs about 11,000#. TV weighs 10,000# on the wheels with the 5er attached. The 5er has about 9,000# on its axles when attached to the TV. therefor the 5er really weighs 9,000# + Pin of about 2,200# or 11,200#.
