1996 Chevy K2500 + Lance LC980 + 6,000lb trailer?
I'm thinking this is likely a bad idea all around...but I've been known to be wrong before, lol.
I'm in a bit of a pickle. My current set up is a Ford F350 diesel dually 4x4 truck, hauling a Lance LC980 camper, and towing my Suzuki Samurai on a trailer with a loaded weight of around 6,000lbs. By factory numbers, yeah, way overweight, but the truck handles it beautifully.
That truck is now off the road due to needed repairs, and not likely to go back on the road. My plan is pull the engine/trans, and swap it into my old International truck as a custom hauler project. But given my current project overload, I'm probably looking at a year plus time frame on that.
My current daily driver is a 1996 Chevy K2500 6.5 turbodiesel SRW, that is not currently set up for hauling a camper at all. I thought about adding tie downs and suspension upgrades to it, but given how this truck performs empty, my gut feeling is that loading it down with the camper AND trailer is going to be a bad idea all around. Though that said, I've yet to even hook up my trailer to it, so at this point I'm not really sure how it will work with a load on it. I've been waiting until I can get my EGT and trans temp gauges in it first, and that's going to be a while still too, as I recently broke my hand.
So I figured I'd ask here before starting to look at replacement trucks or alternative camping solutions...
I'm in a bit of a pickle. My current set up is a Ford F350 diesel dually 4x4 truck, hauling a Lance LC980 camper, and towing my Suzuki Samurai on a trailer with a loaded weight of around 6,000lbs. By factory numbers, yeah, way overweight, but the truck handles it beautifully.
That truck is now off the road due to needed repairs, and not likely to go back on the road. My plan is pull the engine/trans, and swap it into my old International truck as a custom hauler project. But given my current project overload, I'm probably looking at a year plus time frame on that.
My current daily driver is a 1996 Chevy K2500 6.5 turbodiesel SRW, that is not currently set up for hauling a camper at all. I thought about adding tie downs and suspension upgrades to it, but given how this truck performs empty, my gut feeling is that loading it down with the camper AND trailer is going to be a bad idea all around. Though that said, I've yet to even hook up my trailer to it, so at this point I'm not really sure how it will work with a load on it. I've been waiting until I can get my EGT and trans temp gauges in it first, and that's going to be a while still too, as I recently broke my hand.
So I figured I'd ask here before starting to look at replacement trucks or alternative camping solutions...
