5th Wheel Pin Weight on 2500HD Chevy HELP!!!
I am not looking for the weight police to chime in, I am looking for answers from people with the above truck or a legitimate answer. I am going to pull the trigger on a 2500HD this week (truck is al...
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texasdiver wrote:
A 3500 will bump your GVWR up to 11,500 lbs and your payload up to 4,125 lbs. for an otherwise identical truck. It will also give you a 17.000 lb 5th wheel tow rating. Those are pretty big jumps in numbers for relatively little extra cost.
Here are the 3500HD specs
As someone else stated, just because the Manufacturer states in their "brochure" that a truck can tow a certain weight 5er, doesn't really mean it can...One has to do as the OP did and look at ALL the numbers....a 17,000# 5er could have a pin weight of 3400#. One would have to see the cargo carrying capacity of the truck....(GVWR isn't used anymore, RAWR is), so the 3500 very well may be able to tow a 17,000#, but I'd want to know what the truck weighed when loaded like one was going camping, missing only the pin weight number to "do the math with"...(ok, so the weight police came out in me that time, sorry :))
