Pin weight
How many know their actual pin weight. Serious 5vr's should. Most discussion regarding trucks are more about towing capacity, when it needs to be about pin weight which is the biggest part of cargo ...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:NC Hauler wrote:
Weighed my whole combo 3/5/14. Full tank of fuel, full DEF tank, me, wife, two boxers, tool box a tad more loaded and 5er loaded almost as full as usual for a weeks stay...all tanks empty, cept black water probably had 10 gallons or so in it and 2 5# bags of ice to slosh around in the tank while driving from Asheville NC to Seviereville TN (trying to clean sensors)..
I digressed....
front axle was 5460# (rated @5800)
Drive axle was 7200# (without 5er it was 3860), which gives me a pin weight of 3340# .
My Gross weight total was 12,660 (truck plus pin weight) which is 1,340# under my trucks GVWR of 14,000#.)..Drive axle weight of 7200# put my truck 2550# under my RAWR of 9750#, (based on tires and psi). (AAM rates rear axle at 11,500 to 11,800#).
That poor truck of yours needs a workout! It keeps saying hook me to something BIG!
My trailer axle , 12,580# and pin weight 3340#, put weight of my 5er @ 15,920#, (has a GVW of 16,950#)...Didn't have my generator.(add another 250# to 5er..not sure on pin weight, but it's up front so could raise pin weight 200#, making it 3540#, which still has me 1140# under my trucks GVWR:)
Total weight of combo was 25,240# (add 250 for generator and it's 25,490#)....trucks GCWR is 37,600#.
Anyway, all these weights were taken on CAT scales..only thing I've added is generator in plus fuel in it. (250#).
That truck keeps saying "Jim get me a real load"!
:B
