can't get the gvwr math to work
I want to buy a Bigfoot 25C9.4SB and a short bed srw crew cab diesel to match. Everything I read says "gvwr gvwr gvwr - never violate your trucks gvwr!". ok. So, Bigfoot says their camper is 3K ...
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ardvark wrote:
Your point regarding engineering data is a good one. In follow-up to that, it seems to me it would make things simpler if manufacturers published less data. If they simply said, this model truck is designed to carry this much weight and tow this much weigh, wouldn't that make everyone happy?
That is what they do.
All that’s going on here is trying to explain why most 2500/3500 trucks have lower ratings that what they’re actually perfectly capable of.
The rating number isn’t an engineering limit of the whole truck.
It’s mostly a number that places the truck into a certain defined category.
Many of us can’t help notice that some trucks are rated lower, like lots of 2500s, yet they have the same engine, transmission, and axles. Then you look at exactly what was changed on the higher rated ones and it’s either nothing or nothing much.
