Might be forced to buy Diesel
Wife and I have been looking at Fifth-wheels. My truck is 8 years old (half ton) and I was thinking about getting a new 1 Ton gas truck next year. It seems that all the Fifth-wheel floor plans we re...
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MetalGator wrote:jerem0621 wrote:
You must be planning on a monster fiver. My best friends 38 ft 4 slide Montana grosses at 14500 lbs. Jeremiah
No, not looking at monster 5ers by any means. I am looking for something around 35' and most "non lightweight" 5ers are around 10K-11K dry. I am going by GVWR, not dry weight which puts most 5ers in this length range at between 12K-14K GVWR. That is right at the limit for most gas 1 ton trucks.
Burch
An F-350 with the 6.2 and 4.30 gears (or a used F-350 with the V10 and 4.11's) or a GMC 3500 with the 6.0 and 4.11's will tow that! For that matter, so will a Ram 2500 with the Hemi.
