2016 Ram 2500 - Improving Payload
My neighbor is a good guy and went out and bought a 2016 Ram 2500 CTD with the 8' foot bed about a year or so back. It is a nice truck. Now that he has started looking at what he may be hauling he wil...
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CampingN.C. wrote:JIMNLIN wrote:
I would tell the neighbor not to add any aftermarket rear suspension product till he loads the truck and hooks up to the trailer and makes a short trip.
Then is the time to decide if any thing is needed...which I doubt.
We have a member who sold his '07 3500 SRW and bought the new 2500 Ram 6.4 hemi with rear coils to pull the same 12.5k 37' 5th wheel trailer with three slides. His comment was the 2500 with coils didn't swag anymore than his old 3500 SRW.
What I see posted on some of the truck camper publications and websites is the 2500 with coil springs don't sag as much as the 2500 with leaf springs when loaded with those heavy truck campers.
He also did a very detailed comparison with photos using a heavy 5er with his 2500 and a buddies 3500. If I recall correctly there was around a one inch difference in rear squat between the two.
That was me. The first 5er - where I compared my old 3500 SRW to the new 2500 was the was my 12k unit I had at the time.
The second 5er was a friends, a 41' monster that weighed 14.5k. The trucks were both 2014 crew cab, short bed, SRW, 4x4. The 2500 had a 6.4L Hemi and the 3500 was a CTD.
