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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wilber1 wrote: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.
Payload is simply GVWR minus Curb Weight. That's why the payload rating is completely out of whack on a diesel 2500 compared to the axle rating. My point of bringing up the lighter truck is simply to illustrate that when you take away the GVWR ceiling that curbs the payload on the diesel truck, the same exact coil suspension is given a 3990 payload rating.
I'm done with this thread.
