towing of heavier toad

richard_123 wrote:
Have presently a Winnebago class "A" 35 foot motor home. Desiring to pull a larger vehicle. I have noticed in the last 6-7 months appears a lot of motor homes are pulling jeeps, small trucks, mid size suv's. My motor home came with 10000 pound roadmaster hitch and bar, brake buddy system, break away electrical hookup and the dingy towing light set up.


My concerns are the motor home is only rated for gcw of 24000 pounds. The weight of motor home with full,supplies,bicycles, and two adults is at 21345 pounds. What can I do to be able to pull my chevy equinox with a wet weight of 4400.

The motor home has larger assisted brakes, additional torsion bar at rear, front sway bar, heavier shocks, improved cooling for engine and trans, and Banks Pac added to engine.

I feel their is no problem with handling the tow behind, Since previous owner was pulling four door jeep safari.

But overweight!!!!!

What to do, appears legally I can only tow about 2600 pounds, which seems ridiculous for a class A motor home.

Sounds like you have a P30 chassis, but you'll never know the difference and until you encounter some long 6% grades maybe. First thing is to get a tranny temp. gauge, as the tranny will most likely be the first thing to suffer. If you're running a Chevy 4L80E tranny, it will go into limp mode once it gets to a certain temp. and you can most likely then continue your climb in low gear at 25mph. This in itself, will give you a 25% overload, so with some anticipation, you may want to do this beforehand, rather than heating it up anymore than you need to. You mentioned extra cooling and if over and above what's usually incorporated, then it might just be adequate.