3/4 ton Duramax capacity
As you can see by my sig. this is not me but for a friend. He has a 2002 GMC Duramax 3/4 ton 4 door long bed truck and is looking at upgrading his 5th wheel. Pin weight for the new 5ver (2005 Montan...
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rjstractor wrote:blt2ski wrote:
Power wise, the truck should do fine. At some point in time, ie about 12K total, a 9200 gvwr gm does get a bit screwy, in that one will be hitting bump stops on the rear when going over some speed bumps, or if you hit a hole at speed, then start going up quickly, ie a river crossing or equal in a valley....
x2. My 2500HD drives and handles pretty good at 10K. With the 1000 lb dump insert and 4K of gravel it gets pretty squirrely. The worse was 2 full pallets of wet sod on top of the dump insert, don't know what it weighed but was pretty heavy. Acceleration and braking were always more than adequate.
Wet sod can be upwards of 3000-3500 a pallet! I've had 2 pallets of wall block that weigh in at 3200 or so a piece in both the 96 with original springs, and some new 8400 lb capacity springs, and the dually I currently own. The 6400 original springs were the squirliest, the sw with 8400 lb springs and the dually were onpar! With some advantage to the dually, more because of the 4 disk braks vs the front disk/rear drums of the 96. Power wise,I would hope a 300+ dmax would out do a 185hp 6.5td! BUT< if I had to go up a steep hill, ie over 24%, the dmax would be stalled out, the 6.5td do to better overall gearing, was good to just over 30%, both at 20K lbs!
Marty
