Is this camper too heavy?

And you don’t know if he’s already got that stuff. All camper trucks need that.
I wouldn’t (and don’t) use a hitch extension. Besides, an AF 865 is only a 9.5.

You didn't factor in bed mat, tie downs, turnbuckles, heavier hitch, extended tongue or receiver extension...

Airbags or overload springs, bigger tires if it needs them, maybe a sway bar and some Bilsein shocks. It won’t be $4000.
I did it with just the airbags and bigger tires.

Buying a dually is a better plan. I’ve had four or five of them since then and that’s what I’d really recommend... but that 250 can do it. They do it every day.

The trailer he’s talking about isn’t going to be any significant load on the truck.

burningman wrote:
I could get that F250 into shape for that job for a lot less than $4000. A couple times I carried a heavier camper plus heavier trailer with an F250 from the Pacific Northwest to Nevada and back with less than that into the entire truck.

Cool, what would be your solution?

I could get that F250 into shape for that job for a lot less than $4000. A couple times I carried a heavier camper plus heavier trailer with an F250 from the Pacific Northwest to Nevada and back with less than that into the entire truck.

My truck weighed about 7000 lbs on the rear axle with just the camper and closer to 8000 lbs with the trailer hitch on the rear. If the F250 is 2005 or newer, it has better brakes, frame and suspension than previous years. If the truck already has 18" or 20" OEM wheels and the camper package, it will need a rubber cargo mat, camper tie downs, turnbuckles and upper and lower StableLoads to just carry the camper. To be able to tow a heavy trailer behind that, you also need the SuperHitch Receiver, SuperTruss extension, heavier dampened shocks, air bags or additional springs and 19.5" tires and rims. The rest of the truck can handle the load, but you have to put about $4k in upgrades to make it safe and handle well. If your friend does not want to put so much into his truck, he needs to sell it and buy a DRW truck - There is no going around either spending money to upgrade select truck components or the entire truck.

Ok. This was helpful. Carrying capacity of the truck is much more than I realized. It is a 865 no slide

No a 2500lb load is not too heavy for a f250... when I was using my f250 for rv purposes, I had an old 11.5ft caveman camper that fully loaded weighed 4100lbs, and I still pulled a 5000lb boat behind the pickup.. no problems at all at highway speeds and usually faster... but doent expect a pickup and camper to take corners like a sportscar...

Your friend is wanting to do pretty close to exactly what bedlam did for a few years, but he did modifications including heavier shocks and 19.5 tires/wheels and stableloads. That will be a few thousand dollars of modifications to "get" by. As others have noted, even a short Arctic Fox is closer to 4000 than 2500. No doubt your friend would likely to be over the tire rating even before adding extra tongue weight. Rear tire blowouts aren't fun.

DutchmenSport wrote:

Really? Chevy S10? OMG. ... It was a V8, manual transmission.

Someone swapped in the engine if it had a V8. S10s never came with a V8.

4.3L V6 was the biggest they came with from the factory.