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โAug-03-2024 11:23 AM
Thank you for this great tool. I am having difficulty figuring out how to in download the excel file. Can you please help?
โAug-04-2024 06:04 AM
You are responding to a post that's 10 years old.
โAug-04-2024 07:15 AM
Wow, so helpful. All good though, I figured out how.
โAug-04-2024 12:14 PM
So how do you download? I looked at it and can't see how.
โAug-04-2024 04:37 PM
Use this link, will only work if you have a micrsoft account though.
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=A7EE35AF86FE78FE&resid=A7EE35AF86FE78FE%21142&authkey=ALI_KLtWUH...
โAug-04-2024 04:59 PM
Interesting, it worked off your link but with a twist. Here's what I did in case it helps anyone else.
I clicked on your link and it opened a blank page with just the words Weight Calc... in the top left corner.
I click on the words Weight Calc... and it opened the excel sheet.
Then I clicked on File -- Create a copy -- download.
โFeb-16-2014 01:19 PM
xcntrk wrote:Seattle Lion wrote:
I can't think of anything that would be gained by decomposing the sources of the various limits on our TV's. The manufacturers have an incentive to make these ratings as high as possible, since truck purchasers are looking for the best payload and tow capacities. I worry that the margins of error may be made too small in order to accommodate the marketing department.
I don't agree with what you're saying here. Sure I get manufactures are free to establish their own benchmark for tow ratings, and therefore free to inflate numbers as they desire.
Disagree...
Back to my earlier posts on this...decide either you believe in the
OEM's ratings or not. Also note that GCWR has an 'R' in there
If no, then do whatever, but know that you have taken the OEMs (yes
more than one) off the hook and taken that liability
If yes, then learn how that system works and goes to that picture posted
earlier
Both liability and warranty are baked into all ratings
Hopefully this will soon change starting in 2015 as Toyota, Ford, GM, and Chrysler begin aligning with the SAE International Standard J2807 (Performance Requirements for Determining Tow-Vehicle Gross Combination Weight Rating and Trailer Weight Rating).
But to your point above, deciphering your axle or total vehicle gross weight rating is very much a combination of the underlying component parts that make up that rating, with the lowest common denominator limiting the rating. Take my little 1/2 ton pickup for example:
- Rear Axle unit w/E-locker and 3.73 = 4800#
- Rear Springs = 4050#
- Rear wheels (20" 6-lug) = 4050# (2025ea)
- Rear Tires 275/55R20 (P-scorpion) = 4806# (2403ea)
The axle housing itself can support up to 4800# gross weight however the limiting components are the springs and wheels which hold back the rear GAWR to 4050# as a result.
โFeb-16-2014 01:11 PM
BarneyS wrote:
Welcome back Ben! ๐
Barney
โFeb-16-2014 05:34 AM
Seattle Lion wrote:
I can't think of anything that would be gained by decomposing the sources of the various limits on our TV's. The manufacturers have an incentive to make these ratings as high as possible, since truck purchasers are looking for the best payload and tow capacities. I worry that the margins of error may be made too small in order to accommodate the marketing department.
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โFeb-03-2014 10:55 AM
I'm going back to the trips, locations, destinations (or whatever they call it) forum. Good luck
โFeb-03-2014 10:43 AM