Sorry...another tow vehicle capacity thread
Lets just get this out of the way up front. I am a newbie to camping that made an uninformed purchase of too much 5th wheel for the truck I have. I already own the camper and the truck so no going b...
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Wildwilly101 wrote:
I forgot to add, new Bilstiens too. Loading was fine, truck was way too light for the job. See sawing was caused by too much pin weight for the truck suspension, not bad shocks and too little pin weight. I was foolish enough to follow people’s advice who claim that simply “beefing up” your truck will be fine, just go camping and enjoy. There are physical limits to the ability of a truck based on design parameters. Some beefing up may very well work in some situations. Mine was not one of those situations. As I said before, I should have known better, but had to find out for myself.
You are correct about design parameters, wrong about what they are. Like I said your modified suspension on the 2500 is better than a stock DRW suspension.
I know the spring rates between the two trucks trust me... There was something else wrong with your setup.
Since you traded it you will probably never know, but nothing you have posted about thesuspension would cause that issue.
Unless your new truck has air suspension the difference is much smaller than you think, until you get over 6,500 on the rear axle. Numbers and spring rates don't lie.
Your also contradicting yourself. Was the loading correct, or was there too little pin weight? You can't have both.
