Hitch Upgrade - Should I?
Have a 2006 Chevy Silverado 1500HD. Came with a class III 600lb tongue weight hitch. Seems to be the weak point. Truck is 4.10 gears and 16000 GCWR. Want to pull some trailers up to 8000lb so estim...
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valhalla360 wrote:
Did you check the payload to make sure you aren't overloading the truck? Could they have put the lower class hitch on because that would handle anything the truck is rated for?
Maybe you could check if you're curious.
I'll leave this here...
"May 2002. The 1500HD is 8600 GVWR, just like the 2500 and shares part of the frame. The 2500HD is 9200 GVWR,"
And if I recall correctly, they got the 9.5" 14 bolt semi floater rear axle. Not the biggest tool in the shed, but enough that it ran well under all the 3/4 ton GMs for about 2 decades. Heck my '86 K20 "camper special" 8600 gvw has a 14 bolt s f axle. From how I bought it, it looks like it carried a TC for a while as well. And not a little one. Little one wouldn't have dented the bed floor, like our Arctic Fox did. With a 4" lift on it.
Original axle, doesn't appear to ever have been rebuilt, changed the fluid, it looked great.
