Arctic Fox 990 on SRW in the Snow?

Sliding-into-home wrote:

whizbang wrote:
Sliding-into-home,

You are going to be over weight. Period.

Your first step is to weight your truck with a full tank and you, but with the tail gate removed (my guess 7500#). Get the weights separately for both the front and rear axel.

The loaded 990 will be at least 4500 pounds. I agree with the other poster who said you will be 500 pounds over weight. I think it will be a bit more than that. Possibly 1000 pounds.

Other folks on this forum are more informed on current camper specs.

Just start a new post that includes for truck weights and go from there.

(FYI --- We had a F350 CC LB 4x4 with the 6.8 gasser that is lighter than your diesel. We had a 1996 Alpenlite that is lighter than a 990. We weighed 11,400 with my wife and I and two small dogs).

I hear ya. And if it looks like we'll weigh anywhere close to that, I don't plan to intentionally travel overloaded. I don't plan to intentionally travel overloaded.

Keep in mind though, we won't be camping like most folks. We'll be 2 hours from home for one night at a time. No AC unit, no awnings, 5 gallons of water, 1 can of LPG. We could probably even get away carrying one extra battery instead of the generator.

All this having been said, I am leaning slightly toward a northern lite sportsman at this point, because it wouldn't require any special workarounds, not to mention its suitability for the winter conditions.