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Wild Card wrote:
Go buy a spring pack for a 3500
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Lantley wrote:MFL wrote:
I don't usually pay much attention to dry wts (8,160 lbs), but I think some are overlooking this entirely, and moving to worst case. With OPs 500 lb bike, he will still be under 9K. Now if you add another 2K+ of gear, normal stuff, it's still only 11K.
This TH has almost 5K CCC, that the OP states he won't be using. Even if he fills the 100 gal water, he'll still be on the short side of 12K.
IMO, this set up will work, probably some over truck GVWR, but under RAWR/tire max, GCWR. The scales will give final wts, but I expect a good towing experience.
Jerry
I agree to a point. THe first issue is you cannot trust the brochure dry weight number. What is the scaled dry weight? THe 2nd factor is the OP isn't even close on his ratings. What is his truck scaled ready to camp weight.
Based on what little factual data we actually have the 2500 3/4 ton truck is not rated for a 14K 5th wheel trailer.
โMar-09-2017 03:40 AM
MFL wrote:
I don't usually pay much attention to dry wts (8,160 lbs), but I think some are overlooking this entirely, and moving to worst case. With OPs 500 lb bike, he will still be under 9K. Now if you add another 2K+ of gear, normal stuff, it's still only 11K.
This TH has almost 5K CCC, that the OP states he won't be using. Even if he fills the 100 gal water, he'll still be on the short side of 12K.
IMO, this set up will work, probably some over truck GVWR, but under RAWR/tire max, GCWR. The scales will give final wts, but I expect a good towing experience.
Jerry
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jerem0621 wrote:
My dad had a 15k wet fiver with his 03 2500 Ram QC 2WD CTD. He used it for work and towed it all over the country. He put about 30k miles on that combo. He uses a time based brake controller and a Curt 20k sliding hitch. The truck now has about 250k miles and still runs like a champ. Truck was level when hitched up.
But, he now pulls a fiver that is about 8,500 lbs dry and he is much happier. After all those miles he found the day that the wind was right and blew him all over the road with that 15k rig. He sold it shortly after that.
The old one was pretty old and he wanted a newer one. The new one hardly squats the truck.
Imho you won't even give the truck a decent workout with that tiny fiver. And that's based on real world evidence watching my Dad and his truck over the past 10 years.
Thanks!
Jeremiah
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