2013 Suburban 2500 Hitch
Last year I upgraded from 1500 Suburban to a 13 Suburban 2500 with 6.0/6 spd/3.73. It does fine with my 6,000 lb loaded Jayco 27 BH. I am looking at upgrading the trailer to larger/heavier Jayco Jayf...
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sportsman16 wrote:
Last year I upgraded from 1500 Suburban to a 13 Suburban 2500 with 6.0/6 spd/3.73. It does fine with my 6,000 lb loaded Jayco 27 BH. I am looking at upgrading the trailer to larger/heavier Jayco Jayflight or Eagle. The models I am looking at have posted dry tounge weights around 700+ lbs. I realize I am limited by the crappy hitch that is not replaceable and limited to 1000 lbs. I do not intend to go over this but am wondering if others have experience towing up near the rated limit. Any thoughts? Anyone towing 800-900 lbs tounge weight with this hitch?
IMO about the only safe way to do this with this non replaceable receivers is to keep the potential tongue wt under the receiver stated limit by taking 13% of the GVWR of the TT as the max tongue wt that you might see. I can easily see a 700# dry tongue wt. exceeding 1,000 lbs. I'm in sort of the same situation with my Van and it's note because of frame, RAWR limitations, but w/o going to something like the 2K/20K Pull Rite which is available for my Van almost all the aftermarket receivers are limited to 1.2K/12K. This limits my TT to around the 8K max GVWR.
Larry
