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rctoyguy
Explorer
Feb 14, 2017

Is my Ram 2500 a wimp or am I missing something here?

In the market for a 5th wheel, and I know I need to be careful about weights - but I'm trying to get in the ballpark for camper weights to see if what I want is reasonable. I just looked up the spe...
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Hammerboy
Explorer
Feb 16, 2017
nickthehunter wrote:
That Turbo Diesel option you paid $8,000 extra for just chewed up about 800 lbs of your payload. You should have gotten the gasser and you would have had 800 lbs more payload and you'd be good to go.


This may not be entirely true. My 13' 2500 duramax has the 10,000 payload, my buddies '14 GMC 2500 gasser has a 9,500 payload. So it's closer than the weight of the engine.

Dan

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