Towing Rating at 5000 pounds

MontanaCamper wrote:
Have a question on towing rating.. The MH we are looking at only has a tow rating of 5000 pounds. I want to tow my subaru legacy in an enclosed trailer...but if I run the numbers, Im at 6100 pounds, 1100 pounds over. Now my question... what makes the towing only 5000 pounds? is there something you can upgrade to raise the towing capacity?? My Dads 71 3/4 ton pickup, we added a leaf, changed the rear gearing and air bags...supposedly we raised the towing capacity and registered it as a 1 ton.... was wondering if you could do something like that on a MH.

If you have nothing positive to say, keep it to yourself. Is just a question....if the answer is no, thats it...so beit.


thanks in advance

You can always beef things up, if you're concerned about jerking the hitch off and then there's the 500lb hitch weight limitation to consider, but the real numbers are subtracting the GVWR from the GCWR which takes a lot more factors into consideration and the first thing to usually cause a problem if there's going to be one, is the transmission overheating on long steep climbs, so you might want to install one of those, if you don't have one already.