lawrosa wrote:
Information from the driver door: GVWR=8800; Front GAWR= 4410; Rear GAWR=6044;
3. Measured weight from scales:
3a. Front GVWR= 3,880 Rear GVWR= 2,720 Total weighted truck @ scale=6,600.
6044 rear - 2720 scale weight = 3324 lbs. Thats your payload. Thats pin, people cargo etc...
X2.
Just stay under the trucks 6084 RAWR unless you beef the rear suspension and higher rated wheels and tires.
One of my previous '01 Dodge/Cummins 235/460 engine with the 3.54 axle/47RE tranny had a 9800 lb tow rating. The 4.10 gears were much preferred with this tranny/gear ratio.
Now a trailer.
A 11500 lb dry weight trailer will be to much for your older truck. Actual weight may be closer to 13000 + lbs after loading it...... and 2600-3000 pin lb.
My 11200 lb 5er has 2200 lbs of pin weight depending on how we load the trailer.
Because of the low performance of those older trucks.....weak auto tranny.......and your low performing 3.54 axle I would look at dry trailer weights in the 9k-10k range. Wet and road ready your looking at 11k or 12k trailer which can have 2000-2500 lb pin weights.
