What can my Suburban safely tow?
We were all set to purchase a Jayco Jay Flight 28BH today until I started reading threads on here and getting nervous about our Suburban's ability to tow it safely. We have a 2008 Suburban with a 6L ...
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The issue like ALL larger sized families, is you will need one truck sized larger than ratings, due to the family weight itself. My family of 6 would have put this burb at gvwr, WITH OUT a trailer attached. So my true tow rating is zero, zilch, nada, nothing! I needed a 9200 GM Crew cab to handle my family's weight, along with 700 lbs of HW, not to mention the two 150 lbs malamutes with crates, a bike or 6, etc. Usually over 2000 to as much as 3000 lbs was added to my truck to head out camping, then add in the 6500 or so on the trailer axels....
The motor in the 1500 burb is more than capable of handling whatever trailer you want to pull. The issue is the chassis is too light duty for the power part. I've personally found it better to be over truck chassi'd and slightly under powered than over powered and under chass'd/payload!
marty
The motor in the 1500 burb is more than capable of handling whatever trailer you want to pull. The issue is the chassis is too light duty for the power part. I've personally found it better to be over truck chassi'd and slightly under powered than over powered and under chass'd/payload!
marty
