AF990 on F350 CC SRW
OK, so I've spent gobs of time reading about weights and trucks and what to do and what not to do. I've noticed many DRW owners have 9 foot campers and many have 11-12 footers, I've witnessed a Dodge...
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emcvay wrote:
Decided to do more math and added FULL water and propane to see what that would do:
Water and Propane 746
Camper 3010
Options 565
Me 250
Wife 145
Total 4716
Truck 7910
Gross 12626
Axles 13000
Tires 14480
GVRW 11500
Overlimit 1126
So, no food, clothes, tools etc and I'm 1126lbs overweight by the above....add another couple hundred pounds of vitals and clothes, gear etc and I'd be pushing the max on the axles but not the tires and over the GVRW by some 1300-1500lbs
I'm guess this isn't anything unusual for SRW guys since I've seen TONS of pics of people with F350 SRW's like mine loaded with these campers, the 811's which aren't much lighter and the bigger campers too.
Hmmmmm
Out of curiosity i did more math. If I dropped the water to 25 gallons and propane to 30 gallons (both more than enough for 90% of what I'd be doing) I'm down to 700lbs over weight (without actually weighing the truck and camper together -- which i will do when I actually have a camper). If there is water onsite so i don't need to haul any then I'm down to just 500 pounds over.
Though I'd have to add about 150lbs of tongue weight and of course food etc but that is starting to sound more reasonable. I'll have to look at other maths to see what I might be able to shed but mostly, I'll need a TRUE weight on the camper and truck.
