Lifted truck towing :(

BillyW wrote:
I essentially have the same truck without the lift or larger tires. And I have 3.92 gears. My truck tows my 6000ish lb, 24' trailer awesomely. The Rams are conservatively rated in my opinion with that 6900 lb GVWR. The total GAWR is 7900 lb if I remember correctly. Not that I would want to push it that far, but I believe that gives me some wiggle room. I think it would apply to you too. However, if it were me with your lifted truck, I wouldn't go above 27-28 feet and perhaps 6500 lb, which is still going to put you over GVWR by at least 250 lbs. And I question if that 10,000 lb tow rating applies to the 3.21 gears.

Thanks for the info, max towing on these gears is like 8050, pretty low, but the trailer I want is about 6600 pounds. I'm confused as to why others are thinking the lift drastically alters the towing loads? Its a pro comp lift and the 2016 rams have coin springs, the lift itself merely raises the springs, I can't logically see how that would affect the actual payload or toeing ability. Springs and tires are what have a dramatic impact on the load aren't they? I also have a much beefier sway bar, and airbags inside my springs, moreover I've confirmed a ldh is available with my hitch being dropped, the tongue weight (weighed it today) came in right at 755 pounds, which puts me over my gvwr by about 200 pounds, I'm completely level due to my air bags.

Additionally weighing the truck with three adults and two children and the trailer puts my overall weight at 12900 pounds (with trailer, tanks, batteries). While I only got it weighed there to verify my math, I'm really not seeing how I'm over my max allowed weight for truck and trailer combined? The sales man says I'm fine, but I take his word with a grain of salt. Can anyone explain why exactly a lift with spacers would actually alter anything tow wise when all the parts are factory, just moved up in the air by 6 inches ?

Fwiw the tongue weight was weight their on a scale st 755 pounds , my truck was weighed with myself my wife and my two kids at 6450, that plus 755 is 7205, my gvwr is 6900 so I'm over on that by 305 pounds. And that's only because of the weight of the actual lift components. It sounds like to me the only real issue here is wether my actual components in the lift is added to the gvwr? The axles can handle well more than they advertise, aside from that, everything else is stock, of course I have air bags so my springs aren't an issue, surely the weight rating isn't based completely on the axle right ? I've also seen some talk of breaks, if the trailer has electric breaks, then what's the big deal with that? If the truck is rated to tow more than I'm towing and I have electric breaks, how can that be an issue?

Thanks fellas!