mccoydetlef wrote:
How much of a strain to tow a2008 Saturn vue behind a 1995 class a 35 ft 460 ford unit only has 28k and is perfect. Is it worth it to tow without putting a strain on it THANKS
Most likely with the Ford chassis, you're good with the GCVW rating, unless you're grossly overloaded with your GVWR, now.
Then there's the hitch, itself, which is most likely 3500 or 5000lb and if you tow 4 down the hitch weight rating doesn't come in to play at all. So now, how much does the coach, fully loaded and then, the car weigh for doing the math. I weigh ours at the truck stations along the interstate, at no charge and nary a problem ever, when they're not busy with trucks lined up.
All these ratings should be on a closet door in the coach somewhere and even though I don't advocate it, there's a lot of leeway to be had with weights and measures and if some overloading was a real factor, then that's all you'd hear about among these forums, with so many leaving the driveway overloaded on a daily basis.
We pulled a ton over specs. all over the country with our old gasser on a Chevy chassis, but the only weak link was the 4L80E GM transmission, so one had to be diligent when climbing long 6% grades in high ambient temps. Even at that, it would just go into limp mode for saving itself and proceeding in low gear at 25mph max. gave another 25% in the rating, so it never became a real problem.
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