Is this camper too heavy?

[tealboy]

A friend emailed, bought a New Artic Fox to go in his 10 year old f250 and the camper weighs 2500 lbs. I don’t know the capacity of his truck or really much about these campers but it struck me as being too heavy for his suspension. He also plans to attach a trailer to the back of the truck and pull his UTV and motorcycle in an enclosed trailer. The tow capacity is about 9000-9400 but I think his problem will be the weight of the camper and then worse, added tongue weight from trailer.

I may be wrong, really have no idea but strikes me as being problematic.

Fixed typos, sorry. Darn spell check.

[finsruskw]

Fort Story!!
Now there's a name I havent heard in a while, since I was stationed there with the Army in '64-65!!

[tealboy]

Sorry. Hopefully fixed now.

[DutchmenSport]

towpro wrote:
Chevy S10?

Really? Chevy S10? OMG. I owned one once and no way would I attempt to put a truck camper on it. It was a V8, manual transmission, and we used it to tow a rental pop-up. The truck struggled to do that. I had to tow in a lower gear most of the time. We lived in Virginia, I was in the Army and we rented the pop-up from the base AAFES exchange. Went to Fort Story (Norfolk) and camped out there. Although I remember we had a great time, I also remember the tow was horrible. We had a shell on the bed of the truck. I don't think it could have handled much more than the shell (plus any gear in the bed of the truck).

[towpro]

Chevy S10?

[DutchmenSport]

Sorry, I don't understand the lingo: "New to go in his 10".

[joerg68]

bought a New to go in his 10

This sentence seems to be lacking some Information.
2500lbs may or may not be too heavy for a 2500 truck, considering your friend wants to pull a trailer in addition to the loaded TC.
A modern gas engine should be no issue. More engine is better, but less engine can still get the job done.