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You can check with Chevy on the tow ratings if you dont have a owners manual. Most half tons are overloaded with two people and a tool box. Z71 gives you larger tires and different gears which will help but you will find if you put it on a scale you exceed the axle ratings of the truck. normally if you tow move up to a bigger truck. Chevys web site has tow ratings for the new truck line and you can use that for reference.
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I have been looking hard at the new 3500 from chevy. I like the dmax allison combo. My truck now is a 72 chevy c30 1wd 402 bigblock auto custom camper longhorn with 150k miles needs work its just tough to see a price tag of 40000 for a new truck. Around here they are talking about pollution testing again and the 72 would be exempt so I might just put in a crate engine and some body work for about 10k and pretend it is a new truck. The auto is the only thing holding me back if I could get a 4 speed auto or an overdrive for it it wouldnt be a question old metal rules in my book. I get 12mpg now on the highway at 55 and around 10 in the backroads, still better than some peoples 350 autos getting 9 on the highway. The truck empty weighs 5280 and has a gvw of 9000. In pa it costs 153 a year for registration if I got a new truck I would register it for 10000 gvw even though the truck is 11,400 gvw because state forest and game land you need a special permit to go on them if the registation is over 10000. From time to time the state police will get a bug and check weight and class stickers. just my thoughts
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Drove Dodges in the past and the cummins might be good but the wrapper stinks. Drove Ford and I could get use to it but the are changing their diesel to a new G2 6.0 liter next year so thats out for now. My dad has a 93 ford diesel before the power stroke and loves it. 2 of my brothers have power strokes and say they cant be beat. I just like GM when you sit down and the controls all turn the same way and then you get in the others and everything is backwards. I browse the diesel page on the net and GM is working thu the first, second year problems. I am looking for a truck when I get ready to retire to pull a 5th wheel. My truck I use to haul a Saturn pickup slide in vintage 1969 it weighed about 3200 empty alot of hard miles on the truck. The camper was in the back yard several winters back and blew over. I now pull a popup with my van but would like to move up. I just wont be able to do both at the same time, But I am still young enough to wait. See I am growing up.
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What it means is your truck with everything attached can only have 6200 pounds on the 4 tires total. 11,800 pounds is the toal weight of the truck and trailer i.e. GCVWR. as long as you do not exceed the axle ratings of the truck. if the truck has a 3800 pound rear axle you cannot put more than that on the axle. if you and your passengers with all your optional equipment air, 4wd, cap,power buckets fuel bigger tires weight 5600 pounds then you can put 600 pounds in the rear or on the trailer hitch. 11800-5600=6200 for a trailer taking in that a hitch type trailer should have 10 percent of the trailer weight on the hitch to carry properly
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