Tow Ratings

[KingtheZJ]

Legittttt

[JEEPWERX]

Diamond plate on the inside?
Bling bling.
I like the side door alot.

[Harrison]

Truck loaded with Christmas shit, Hannah and I, normal tools, and jeep on open trailer with wd hitch hooked up. Front and rear truck axles are rated for 3900lb so doing pretty good in that regard. However, even with 3900lb per axle, gvwr is 6600 so I am over that. Oh well.

Enclosed weighs 2614 empty and jeep is 4900 and truck is rated to tow 8050. So should have over 500lb of capacity for stuff inside the trailer.

[mr.mindless]

That looks awesomely promising. At capacities but not killin ' it.


Tapatalking in traffic

[Harrison]

Awesome weekend. 12-14mpg. 60 on long hills, 65-70 everywhere else. Coolant never above 210, trans never above 190.



With trailer hitched:



Unhitched:



Max trailer weight rating is 8050. GVWR is 6600. Pretty damn close. Jeep had 1/4 tank of fuel, truck was at 1/8 tank, and we had probably eaten and drank and used 50lbs of food and water, so probably add another 250lb between the truck and trailer worst case.

[Harrison]

Bringing this over from the CL thread...

Just about two years elapsed, blue enclosed is gone. Looking at these pics, man that thing WAS nice when I got it...

Smike quoted in here his black 28' was 5500lb empty. I remember him saying when he sold it telling the dudes not to put more than 7000lb in it. You think you were getting 2000lb of tongue weight or the axles were up for more than they were rated?

Thoughts on this guy? Name brand 5200lb axles? Dude said he thinks it weighs 6000lb empty. I expect to be around 6000lb with Jeep, water, living stuff, cooler, etc... wondering about swapping 16" wheels or Gladiators and carrying a couple spare hubs.

https://rochester.craigslist.org/tro/6052133949.html

[mr.mindless]

Hubs won't fail. Tubes will bend just like matts current trailer. Then cheeeew tires.

Plan to swap 7k in? Boom done?


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[M4wdFab]

my failure mode was cracking aluminum rims.  then cracking steel wheels.  leaky wheel shortly after shredded tire.  only noticed it after remounting a few tires with same leaky weld seams. 

i only lost one hub but im sure that was from lack of maintenance.

im sure i was pushing 3K pin weight with the buggy pulled as far forward as possible.   

[M4wdFab]

i would pass on that trailer.  5200lbs on a 34' is no good.  if it was 2500$ then maybe what mike said, but buying a trailer at that cost with the inevitability of needed 3K in axles and tires is not a good plan. 


get 8 lugs for 19.5 swaps.   

[Harrison]

Agree it's to expensive to do axle swaps on, was mostly hoping I could get away with 5200. Certainly wouldn't give me the warm and fuzzies.

Current plan is 30' GA unit with 7k axles for $6k. Leak oil, poke holes, generally abuse like I tend to do and throw it away when I'm done.

[M4wdFab]

bumper pull?

i couldnt imagine going back from a goose. 

[Harrison]

Yes, bumper pull. New goose is out for price, even from GA. There is somewhat of a time limit to this and finding the right used goose is not easy at all.

[Harrison]

https://frederick.craigslist.org/tro/6028626425.html

[Harrison]

We are between $4500-5000 on the above one via text, won't be able to go see it for two weeks. They've owned since 2006. Would prefer two 7ks vs three 5ks, meh

[M4wdFab]

36' floor or over all?

extenda hitch for short box truck cability, but small attic.  looks short height. 



Already beat by a wheeler it looks like too.  hmm.