Will Ram 2500 be enough?
Hi, everybody. Don't have a 5er yet, but will soon. My question is this: I will more than likely be buying ( new or used) an Arctic Fox 27-5. I keep hearing of people pulling that basic size with 3/4 ...
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IdaD wrote:wilber1 wrote:
If a 2500 can be upgraded to the same capability as a 3500, why would Ram build trucks with two different suspensions? Why wouldn't they just use coils on all the SRW's and brand them differently? With the new 2500, Ram has built a truck that best fits its GVWR, instead of trying to make one suspension configuration fit a wide range of GVWR's but isn't the optimum setup for a 10K GVW truck. If you need more in that size truck, that's why they build a one ton.
Those same coil springs are in trucks with two tons of payload rating if you configure the 2500 lightly to minimize the impact of the 10k GVWR class 2 truck limitation. FWIW the leaf sprung 3500 version in that configuration does have more payload capacity. A whopping 150 lbs more!
Really! Apples to apples, for a 4X4 crew cab with 6' 6" box, the Ram website gives a payload of 2380 lbs for the 2500 and 3920 lbs for the SRW 3500.
But if you want to drive a standard cab 2wd stripper 2500 so you can have a payload closer a Laramie crew cab 4x4 3500, feel free.
