5th wheel hitch questions
I'm ramping up the search for a camper, and I feel I should get the T.V. ready in case I find a great deal. Is it practical to buy and install a fifth-wheel hitch before I decide on the trailer? I...
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garyp4951 wrote:
Frank thats an awesome truck you have, but when looking at 5er's I would stay under 13k gross weight.
I've been looking at the Duramax's lately also.
I have a 2015 2500HD, and made the mistake of buying too much trailer (15.5K) for the truck in stock form. I have been through several iterations of modifications to get it to my personal satisfaction. I'm happy with it now, but wouldn't do this all over again. It was expensive, labor intensive, and stressful. I'd buy a DRW from the start.
With a 60 gallon tank already in the truck, the op is going to be severely limited if he intends to run it full. I have the 51 gallon version of the same tank. My stock pin weight is 2485# and then I wanted the 290# generator and the 160# washer/dryer options that sit right up front. Payload goes fast. Op needs to watch out and stay well under 13K gross if he intends to run that tank full. I was overweight for the 20" wheels (had to change stock tires and risk wheel itself being overloaded, or go to 18s) with the tank full and my old 10k#, 2k# pin 5'er once loaded. My solution with that trailer was to upgrade the tires to 275/65r20, which gave me 3750# tire capacity, and plan around a 3400# capacity for the wheels based on an educated guess from similar aftermarkets. I was within those limits. Going to some factory 3500HD 18" takeoffs would have the same increase in tire capacity. Other than that, the overload leaf is the only thing mechanically that changes between the 2500HD and 3500HD SRW, so a set of helpers gave me the theoretical capacity of a 3500HD SRW.
