Picked up the new home. Road warrior
Anyone who is interested. 34" tires with 2" rear lift. I had a ton of room. 2014 415 road warrior. Big girl. Truck towed it great. No issues. Weighted it at the scales and im over on the rear ax...
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Bedlam wrote:
There's plenty of TC haulers that would agree with going to 19.5" wheels. Your actual rear axle rating is close to 10K lbs and the rear suspension and wheels are your limiting factors that downgrade the weight carrying.
GCW has been argued forever on these forums - The fifth wheel has independent braking of the tow vehicle, but the TV needs to have sufficient brakes if something goes wrong. There are braking standards with the the FW brakes working properly, but I have not seen a standard with the brakes disabled. So the question is what is sufficient TV braking? Towing the passes when full will strain your power train. You can drive smartly and slow down instead trying to keep up passenger cars or gear the differentials down and keep your top end speed down. Use your exhaust brake on the way down - If you are using your your service brakes, you are going too fast for conditions (weight and grade).
At some point you may want to upgrade to a larger or newer TV for added comfort and capacity, but you will not know until you have completed a few trips fully loaded to your favorite destinations.
Good post. Thank you.
That is my thoughts exactly. I can hold a pretty decent grade, medium throttle, 2200rpms doing 50mph... I can accelerate, but i have no need. Even with my smaller stealth, i still grandpa'd up the hills.
With my exhaust brake i was very rarely using my brakes. It does not stop very fast with just the TV brakes and the trailer brakes off. It will stop, just no were near a panic stop.
I was worried about the strain on the transmission. I will drive it until the transmission gives up and then probably end up re-gearing it in the future. I did drop from my 35" tires to a 33" tire to help.
I will keep you updated on how it tows.. First 60 mile trip was pretty uneventful. It honestly towed 10 times better then my 7000lb stealth...
Adding airbags this week just to keep the truck perfectly level. Im really really impressed with how well the timbrens work though.
