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ChooChooMan74
Explorer
Mar 28, 2014

Posts about weight got me thinking (RANT of sorts)

The title says it all. I hear so many people saying "you will be over", "you need a truck with a V8", "You can't tow with that size vehicle". This is especially true to a newbie, trying to get into ...
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tsetsaf
Explorer III
Mar 28, 2014
OP gvwr is the amount of weight you can have total on both axles of the truck. What was the gcwr of the truck and what did the truck weigh? I bet the truck weighed 7500lbs leaving you over 2500 lbs payload and with, for example a 21k gcwr, the ability to tow 13500 lbs. So you were about 2500 lbs over.

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