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Chuck___
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Apr 25, 2015

How much safety I can tow. Please help check the numbers!

I tried to find the safe tow numbers that my truck can safety handle before I purchase a newer 5th wheel. Below are some of the web sites and resources I tried to fine the correct information from. ...
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wilber1
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Apr 26, 2015
I used to own a 2001 truck the same as yours. T.he 4:10 GCWR was also 18K. The 3:54 GCWR was 2000 lbs less. The limiting factor is the auto transmission. The manual transmission trucks back then had a 20K GCWR. I towed a 10K GVWR fiver and a lot of that towing was in the mountains, so I had my truck switched over to a 4:10 ratio.

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