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Originally Posted by wingnut60
You weighed the 2500 WITH the trailer on the truck? What was on the trailer axles?
If the truck weighed 10500, the pin weight on the truck must have been over 5000? On a 32 ft fiver?
Sorry, but can’t understand your numbers.
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Our fiver weighs in at about 12,700# +/- about 10,000# on the axles and 2,700# +/- on the pin. The truck weighs 7,800# ready to go with DW, me and small dog and stuff.
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Originally Posted by The Bruin
@Rhagfo.. have to disagree with you. Door sticker on my truck says cargo capacity of just under 2400lbs. Yes, I understand thats total capacity, passengers, all gear.GVWR of 10000. No I am not going to pull a 38-40ft 15k 5er, but the truck will easily handle a coach in the 10,000 range with pin weights well under 2,000. Plenty of such trailers on the market, both new and used. Contrary to most advice given, I bought the truck first, with the intention of paying it down while I am still working. Not going to have $77,000 of expendable cash at retirement time
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Well a 5er loaded at 10,000# will likely have a pin weight in the range of 2,000#, my 2,700# pin is 21.2% of the trailers gross weight. You should also scale the truck with it ready to tow with what you will have in the truck when going camping as that just less than 2,400#, is already less than 2,000#.
I will say I also bought the truck before the current 5er. I knew I was going to be over GVWR, the last thing I got the dealer to agree to was to hitch up to see if my truck sagged too much, it didn't and we were happy. Well happy until I scaled it, I have been OK with it for over four years and it tow fine, but that 1,700# over GVWR kept eating at me.
So now we have a 2016 Ram 3500 DRW 6.7 CTD with Aisin and 3.73's, can't wait for the first tow.