Shopping for a different tow vehicle.
I currently am using my 15' chevy Silverado 1500 to tow my 07 Jayco 25z bumper pull camper weighing in at 6,000 pounds my truck is rated to pull 10,000. But it pulls my camper like garbage. I have fou...
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If you're not down for doing repair work, I wouldn't, in general, suggest a 20year old diesel of any flavor to be considered a rock solid reliable, trouble free, take it on vacation without a care type of vehicle.
Brand new Silverado with towing gears will do the trick just fine.
I'm no pro on wd hitches but sounds like you're getting blown around by the wind/passing semis is your issue with the half ton.
Couple questions.
How much towing experience do you have? I.E. Do you know it's worse than it should be or could you just not know what to expect?
Could be the wdh setup, any way to compare to another vehicle? Hook up to a buddy's truck or something?
Do you have P tires on the Chebby still? Some good stout LT tires will take a lot of the squishy feeling out of the truck. I've had a bunch of half ton work trucks that get used as big boy trucks and the first thing I do is stiffen up the rear suspension considerably with timbrens or overload springs and burn off the OE tires for some LT tires. Helps a bunch.
Brand new Silverado with towing gears will do the trick just fine.
I'm no pro on wd hitches but sounds like you're getting blown around by the wind/passing semis is your issue with the half ton.
Couple questions.
How much towing experience do you have? I.E. Do you know it's worse than it should be or could you just not know what to expect?
Could be the wdh setup, any way to compare to another vehicle? Hook up to a buddy's truck or something?
Do you have P tires on the Chebby still? Some good stout LT tires will take a lot of the squishy feeling out of the truck. I've had a bunch of half ton work trucks that get used as big boy trucks and the first thing I do is stiffen up the rear suspension considerably with timbrens or overload springs and burn off the OE tires for some LT tires. Helps a bunch.
