Buying EC1160 - having weight anxiety ...
I know, I know, not another "I'm intentionally overloading my truck - tell me it's OK!" thread, but yeah, that's where I'm going ... sorry! OK, that being said, I'm getting ready to pull the trigge...
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deltabravo wrote:
I wouldn't feel comfortable with that much weight on that vintage of GM truck.
Even my AF 811 puts my 09 dually over the GVWR.
Yeah, it's significantly over, but probably 50% or more of the trucks on the road with TC's are over gross - the difference is we know it, right? I do eventually want to get a Ram 5500, but right now that just isn't in the budget, so I'm pretty comfortable with overloading the truck smartly since GM under-rates it pretty significantly. Braking performance is certainly reduced, but in tow/haul mode I haven't had trouble, all the way up to 24k GCVW - just have to drive conservatively. I know the rear axle is good to 11k or so, and the stock steel wheels are only good to 2440/each, so I personally stick to under 9760 on the rear and that is also under the tire max weight @ 80psi.
