Question for Dodge Ram 2500 owners

zcookiemonstar wrote:
I have a 2001 Dodge ram 2500 2wd gas long bed pickup. I am looking for my first truck camper and would like to hear from people who have or had the same truck what camper you carried weight how it handled and what you had to do to it. Thanks to all for any input.

I think most of the responses have not been from folks with a 2001 Dodge ram 2500, 8-foot bed, 2wd and a gas engine. Your truck weighs a lot less than most of the trucks typically posted about here.

My observation is most here are diesels and 4WD. They could easily be about 2000 pounds heavier than your truck. I think the diesel is about 1000 pounds heavier than the gas engine and the 4WD also about 1000 pounds. You did not state if you had a standard cab or extended cab, which also changes things.

I have a 1996 Dodge 2500, 2WD, diesel, extended cab, with an 8-foot bed. I have been been challenged on the weight of my truck more than once. My truck weight is 6200 pounds. The same truck in a 4WD typically weighs about 7200 pounds. Just looking at weight only, a big difference.

I doubt it will help you much, but my 11.5-foot Bigfoot weighs 4200 pounds (fully loaded). Truck and TC together are 10400 lbs. I removed an aftermarket overload spring, and installed airbags. I installed an anti-sway bar and Rancho shocks. I also installed 19.5 tires and wheels, which I think was the greatest improvement on road manors.

I mated my Truck and Bigfoot up in April 2004 with a little under 100,000 miles on the odometer. I now have about 265,00 miles on the odometer of which less than 200 miles were without the TC being loaded. There is nothing I really care to change in the way my truck handles the TC. I also frequently flat tow a Suzuki Samurai.

Wayne