Went looking...getting a little closer
Well, this weekend we went and looked at/walk thru a bunch of campers. Taking in all the advice from this forum. Looked at some BFs, Wolf Creeks, Arctic Foxes, Northern Lite, Eagle Cap, and Adventur...
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I have a co-worker with a TC that is longer and heavier than my 865 and he carries it on a 2006 F250 diesel, 4x4 crew cab, short box. He runs stock factory tires and wheels, Bilstein shocks and air bags and has driven from Washington state to the east coast twice and once to New Mexico with nary a problem. He has had zero issues and no problems at all.
If you check with the weight police from this forum that is all but impossible to do without 19.5" wheels and tires. Judging from the sheer number of TC's I see rolling down the road on SRW trucks with factory wheels and tires and the near complete lack of exploded and wrecked trucks filling the ditches and medians of the highways, someone is probably wrong to panic at the first sight of GVWR.
If you check with the weight police from this forum that is all but impossible to do without 19.5" wheels and tires. Judging from the sheer number of TC's I see rolling down the road on SRW trucks with factory wheels and tires and the near complete lack of exploded and wrecked trucks filling the ditches and medians of the highways, someone is probably wrong to panic at the first sight of GVWR.
