All ActivityMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: Need some adviceWell stated. My Tundra Crewmax with the 5.7L V8 and tow package is rated to tow 10.5K pounds. My problem is cargo capacity (1,600 pounds) and hitch weight (600 pounds) are not nearly enough for that. We are buying a new trailer next spring and I'll upgrade the leaf springs and shocks to handle the extra hitch weight. Desert Captain wrote: Lots of misinformation here: "Secondly, while dry weight is not indicative of real world application, if used properly, you can use it to help." Said before and will say it again.... Dry weights, all dry weights, are at best a joke and often a dangerous joke. No one tows an empty trailer. Run {Forrest run!}, from anyone who gives you a dry weight, only salesmen trying to sell you to much trailer will ever quote them. Your truck may have a theoretical towing capacity of 7,180# but that is about as accurate in the real world as your trailers dry weights. You will run out of payload and thus be well over your trucks GVWR and probably gross axel weights long before you even get close to 7,180#. I had a very capable F-150 SCAB that was rated to tow 8,600# and it was nearly maxed out towing a 5,000# 22' TT. Not trying to burst bubbles here but towing too much trailer with too little truck is never a good idea. As always.... Opinions and YMMV. :C Re: Propane Regulator NoiseOurs grunts, doesn't whistle. It only happens with our trailer, never when I'm brewing beer or boiling water for corn or frying a turkey.Re: Newbie Questions Old-Biscuit wrote: Time to de-winterize is PRIOR to purchase. Otherwise you are buying a 'pig in a poke' If seller doesn't agree to de-winterize it so you can check out systems.......pass (not that much involved in de-winterizing/winterizing) Anyone selling NOW should be aware and willing. Great advise.Re: Roo 23ss needs a mattress topperThe heated mattress is very uncomfortable, we put them both in bags in the house and replaced with an air mattress. So much easier to close the bunk ends now!Re: ~Post your campsite photos here~Great view Yeldarb. Looks a little breezy there!Re: ~Post your campsite photos here~Our campsite at Smoky Bear CG in Cosby, Tennessee, about 10 miles east of Gatlinburg. KOA clean without the KOA price! :) Re: post pictures of your HTTOur site at the Smoky Bear CG in Tennessee, about 10 miles east of Gatlinburg. Great place, reminded me of all the positive attrributes of a KOA but without the KOA price! Re: post pictures of your HTTThanks, we are really happy with our little cabin in the woods!Re: post pictures of your HTTI finally have mastered technology, here's my pic. 2010 Roo21 2007 Tundra 5.7L with the tow package Prodigy brake controller Equalizer hitch.
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