Newbie...So I Need Help with WDH
Here is my setup: 2014 Ram 2500 6.4 2016 Jayco 27BHS GVW=8,250 Tongue=620 Unloaded=6,065 My dealer stocks equalizer 4 points, but I want to be sure I am safely towing and he is selling me wh...
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borninblue wrote:mkirsch wrote:borninblue wrote:
Understood....thank you for the relpy. I'm wondering if I should play it safe and go for the 12,000? What would be the negatives in doing so besides price? I wont be hauling an atv or snything like that. 4 people in truck, camping gear, bikes, coolers etc.
Problem is I will be purchasing from dealer and I can't load up and run to the scale before purchase and set up of WDH.
The equalizer rated at 10,000 has a tongue rating of 1,000. So I'm assuming If I keep the supplies in the bed under 300lbs, I should be within the 1,000 tongue weight limit?
What you put in the bed has nothing to do with the tongue weight limit, and you can certainly put more than 300lbs in the bed. From later responses it sounds like you've got 2800-ish pounds capacity for tongue, people, and stuff. Minus 1000 for the tongue. Minus the weight of you and yours. Leaves you with how much you can put in the bed. You're not going to overload any individual truck axle so axle ratings won't come into play.
1000lbs is a good guess for the weight bars, and almost certainly correct. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying that it wasn't. The way my mind works I'm always planning two steps ahead for multiple eventualities.
OK got little lost, there. The wife and I combined are about 350lbs, plus two small children. So I can load up how much in the bed? Man all these numbers minus this and that I am lost.
A little late, but thought this might still help.
2800 CCC
-1000 Tongue weight
=1800 CCC remaining
-500 (adults and kids, estimated)
= 1300 CCC remaining
So you can load 1300 pounds in your bed. However, your CCC calculation may not include fuel. Looks like you have plenty of payload/CCC to bring along what you need.
