Devocamper wrote:
Thanks for the link , it is misleading when you read on the manufacturers websites that you have a 5000 lbs hitch but I don't recall reading that you actually have a 4000 lbs rating for the chassis on the 26 K.
This isn't quite right. On the 22K, you have a 26K GCWR. The chassis will hold 22K of payload (GVWR). So, if you load to max payload, you only leave 4K for a toad. However, if you load to 21K, you have 5K, which is what the hitch will pull.
We have a 22K chassis pulling a 3900 lb. Wrangler. We fulltime and the chassis is loaded to 21.5K with us and 65G of freshwater in it. We have been on grades up to 12%, through the Rockies, up the west coast, and into Alaska. We have hit a couple of grades that slowed us to 35 mph but they were very long grades. And we still passed fully loaded semis. We have been passed by semis, DPs, and gassers, but it is usually because we are dawdling, not because we don't have the power.
I don't know how the engine will act with an additional 4K lbs (26K chassis). But we don't really notice a difference when we don't have the toad attached. I would guess it would work a little harder but, so far, it seems to be a pretty capable engine.
