Dodge 3500 towing heavy

Grit dog wrote:

JIMNLIN wrote:
If I remember right the older 3500 srw Dodge trucks had 6200-6500 rawr (tire/wheel/rear spring pack). Your trucks drivers side door post certification sticker has the trucks fawr/rawr.
Drop by a set of CAT scales and weigh your truck front and rear axles separately.
Subtract the CAT scale number from your trucks rawr will give you how much in the bed payload you have to work with.

Those older trucks rear axle may weigh in the 3200-3400 lbs ...subtracted from 6200 rawr = approx 3000-3300 lbs before exceeding a tire/wheel or rear suspension.

This trucks rawr will more likely be overloaded.

The '05 truck has the AAM 11.5" rear axle good for over 10k lbs so its not a concern.
And of course if its the 5.9 Cummins it won't have any issues pulling that size trailer.

Many older 350/3500 srw truck owners with heavy truck campers...heavy 5th wheel trailer hitch loads upgraded to 19.5" tires/wheels...air bags of some type of rear suspension help

Don’t go spewing the over axle rated capacity bs. That is literally the last thing to be worried aboot as long as the tires are rated for the load, on good wheels and the truck ain’t a rust bucket.

The limiting factor on the truck in question is the rating on the two rear tires and the GVWR, 9,900 pounds. I have had the same truck for over 18 years, and mine weighs 7,080 pounds empty. That leaves 2,920 for payload. GCWR is 23k so mine has plenty of "capacity" if it could handle the pin weight.

Would I regularly pull the trailer this person proposes? Doubtful. It'll have 3,000+ pounds of pin weight (maybe more like 3,500), which leaves none for me, my wife, and dogs in truck, or even the hitch in the bed for that matter.

The rear GAWR doesn't even matter--you will bust the GVWR way before that.