How much are you willing to ?

You can also look at the door sticker and it will tell you the payload capacity of the truck. Use that or the RAWR, both are there. That and GVWR for the truck and if you are under all of those you are good to go. If not........

fly4fun wrote:
Wow! Great info guys. I feel better now.The trailer I really like is a jayco eagle that comes in at 9105lbs dry with a dry pin weight of 2090. I really liked the quality for the price and the layout. Just thought it may be too heavy on the pin weight. I do not want to tax the truck nor myself with an overloaded beast. I may have to go the airbag route since I do not have the camper package.

Don't look at dry weights. Look at the GVWR of the trailer and see how that fits your truck.

fly4fun wrote:
Wow! Great info guys. I feel better now.The trailer I really like is a jayco eagle that comes in at 9105lbs dry with a dry pin weight of 2090. I really liked the quality for the price and the layout. Just thought it may be too heavy on the pin weight. I do not want to tax the truck nor myself with an overloaded beast. I may have to go the airbag route since I do not have the camper package.

Just bear in mind that the dry truck and dry camper weights are significantly less than what gets added in stuff. You're likely looking at an 11,000 pound trailer once it's ready to go. For instance, my camper has an advertised dry weight of 11,800 and an actual scaled weight of 13,800 (more likely 14,000 or a little more as the season goes on).

I liked donn's suggestion of getting your truck weighed and then do the math from there.

Rough2000 wrote:

They will keep you from bouncing as much when loaded as they will stop the rear from dropping as much. Myself as well as several in out Good Sams chapter now have the Timbrens. The big advantage is we are no longer blinding airplane pilots with our headlights shining up, and you don't need an air compressor as you do with air bags.

The thing that originally convinced me about going to Timbrens was one guy on this site reminded me that you have to maintain at least 5 lbs. pressure on the air bags. He said "heck...I can't get my employees to check the oil and water levels on my vehicles...I know they won't check the pressure on the air bags.

Hey thanks for the reply and recommendation...
I think I will order up a set.

That's the problem I had with those Airlift's...constant fiddling with air pressure.

Thats_Ok wrote:

Rough2000 wrote:


Instead of air bags, you may want to look at Timbrens. Timbren Source. What I prefer about these is you don't have to worry about air. Also, when you don't have the fiver on it, your truck rides like a 2500.

Hmmmm,

Rough,
Do you think we would benefit from the Timbren kit?
I was wondering if these might help with the hard bounce effect when loaded up.

Our truck doesn't sag...it just feels much stiffer than before with the coach we just bought.

Stands to reason I guess now that we have 600# more over the pin than the previous 5ith wheel.

Had an AirLift system on our Ford F250.
I really didn't love that deal a whole lot.

They will keep you from bouncing as much when loaded as they will stop the rear from dropping as much. Myself as well as several in out Good Sams chapter now have the Timbrens. The big advantage is we are no longer blinding airplane pilots with our headlights shining up, and you don't need an air compressor as you do with air bags.

The thing that originally convinced me about going to Timbrens was one guy on this site reminded me that you have to maintain at least 5 lbs. pressure on the air bags. He said "heck...I can't get my employees to check the oil and water levels on my vehicles...I know they won't check the pressure on the air bags.

I pull my 38' 5er with a '12 F250 Super Duty 4x4 Diesel. Mine has a dry weight of 10,900 and a pin weight of 1,920. I know I'm probably pushing it but the truck handles it great.

I wouldn't add a thing to the truck till its hooked up a you make a short trip to see how it carries the load. No bigger than the trailer is I doubt the truck will need any help with carrying weight.

Rough2000 wrote:


Instead of air bags, you may want to look at Timbrens. Timbren Source. What I prefer about these is you don't have to worry about air. Also, when you don't have the fiver on it, your truck rides like a 2500.

Hmmmm,

Rough,
Do you think we would benefit from the Timbren kit?
I was wondering if these might help with the hard bounce effect when loaded up.
Our truck doesn't sag...it just feels much stiffer than before with the coach we just bought.

Stands to reason I guess now that we have 600# more over the pin than the previous 5ith wheel.

Had an AirLift system on our Ford F250.
I really didn't love that deal a whole lot.

Keep the truck under the GVWR. It will depend on the curb weight and the GVWR how much pin weight that is. I suspect you will be limited to about 10k.

fly4fun wrote:
Wow! Great info guys. I feel better now.The trailer I really like is a jayco eagle that comes in at 9105lbs dry with a dry pin weight of 2090. I really liked the quality for the price and the layout. Just thought it may be too heavy on the pin weight. I do not want to tax the truck nor myself with an overloaded beast. I may have to go the airbag route since I do not have the camper package.

Instead of air bags, you may want to look at Timbrens. Timbren Source. What I prefer about these is you don't have to worry about air. Also, when you don't have the fiver on it, your truck rides like a 2500.