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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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JIMNLIN
Explorer III
Feb 18, 2017
tdst51 wrote:
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.



Yeah, right. That's just a wonderful solution. :R

The gasser may have more GVWR based payload but gaz or diezul pickups have about the same empty rear axle weight = about the same payload in the bed.

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