06 dodge ram 2500 SB. Golf cart in bed

[sidewayzz]

Does anyone know if a cart will fit in the bed with tail gate removed?
TIA

[valhalla360]

Me Again wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
With a 6.5ft ford bed, ours has the wheels just onto the tailgate. You could probably do an extension with 3/4" plywood and make it work. Better to back it onto the truck as they tend to be heavier in the rear.

While payload may be a concern when you add in hitch weight, people and gear in the truck... golf carts are only around 500-600lb...no where close to 1500-2000lb.

Back it in! Might want to remove the windshield if you do that!

Gas carts are around 650-700, Electric around 1000.

Consider taking the roof off too. Friends lost theirs on the freeway.

Yeah, I have a gas cart and the manual says 600lb empty. Electric are heavier by about 300lb for the batteries. If you get an extended one or add a lot of after market parts, that can add to the weight.

[mudfuel07]

If you have the seat in the back, then you can't back it in. Short answer, it will sit on the tailgate most likely. I hauled our Yamaha in the bed exactly twice and hated it each time! Since we used it when we went camping, I always had the trailer attached. I had to take the trailer jack off each time and reinstall at the campground since the rear sear floor would hit it on turns, the floor even hit the propane tanks a couple of times as well. I solved the problem by getting rid of the bed and installing a flatbed. I looked at one of the Diamond back covers, but it was cheaper to install the flatbed, it would have sat as high or higher than the trailer and I like the looks. Not for everyone on a shortbed SRW truck. Good luck. I also bent the **** out of my tailgate loading and unloading.

[Me_Again]

valhalla360 wrote:
With a 6.5ft ford bed, ours has the wheels just onto the tailgate. You could probably do an extension with 3/4" plywood and make it work. Better to back it onto the truck as they tend to be heavier in the rear.

While payload may be a concern when you add in hitch weight, people and gear in the truck... golf carts are only around 500-600lb...no where close to 1500-2000lb.

Back it in! Might want to remove the windshield if you do that!

Gas carts are around 650-700, Electric around 1000.

[Bedlam]

valhalla360 wrote:
While payload may be a concern when you add in hitch weight, people and gear in the truck... golf carts are only around 500-600lb...no where close to 1500-2000lb.

I stand corrected - I was looking at GVWR rather than wet weight. I still think many are 1000 lbs after people option them out.

[valhalla360]

With a 6.5ft ford bed, ours has the wheels just onto the tailgate. You could probably do an extension with 3/4" plywood and make it work. Better to back it onto the truck as they tend to be heavier in the rear.

While payload may be a concern when you add in hitch weight, people and gear in the truck... golf carts are only around 500-600lb...no where close to 1500-2000lb.

[Grit_dog]

This is a strange question. You don't have the truck or the cart, or don't have one or the other? I'd suggest measuring both? Or look up the specs of the cart you're contemplating?

[colliehauler]

Don't know if you plan on using it fo golf or campground transportation or both. Kymco makes a small 450cc UTV that will fit in the back of a truck. Like another poster said it might take up your availabile payload.

[K_Charles]

Cricket mini golf cart will fit in any pickup.

[sidewayzz]

Thanks all

[4x4ord]

Maybe you could remove the tailgate, lay a 4x4 on the bumper and screw a plywood floor to it to extend the truck bed enough for the cart.

[Grit_dog]

Lwiddis wrote:
Neither are RAM truck beds.

Except the OP told us what truck bed he has, so ?

[Me_Again]

sidewayzz wrote:
Does anyone know if a cart will fit in the bed with tail gate removed?
TIA

The rear wheels will be beyond the bed floor.

[Bedlam]

You may use up all your payload for a 1500-2000 lb golf cart and not have enough left for occupants and hitch weight.

[colliehauler]

You could go to the golfcart mfg web site and get the dimensions of the cart you plan on using and compare those to your truck. I don't know if all golf carts are the same size.