Terryallan wrote:
As for increasing the GVWR of a vehicle. again there are many, many things to take into consideration. Simply adding heavier tires, and stiffer springs as suggested just won't do it. After all when you changed tires, Did you upgrade the rims? Did you upgrade the hubs? How about the brakes, up grade them as well? How about the gearsets, up grade them as well? Not all the same you know. And not all vehicles even with the same ratio get the same rear gears.
Change components. That's all thats needed. How far you want to go depends on your wallet. Obviously there is a point of diminishing returns, but handling an extra 500lbs of payload is pretty darned easy.
Putting E-rated tires on stock rims is fine if you're just looking for a stability increase. And standard gear sets are just fine if you're not doing tractor pulls. Changing gear ratios mainly affects drive character, shifting engine rpm vs speed.
Upgrading hubs and brakes is important if you can't figure out trailer brakes.
Point is that the payload police on this forum are simply ignorant of what the average person can do to improve the load-handling capability of their current rig - and for much less than the forum-recommended 1 ton dually.
