How would my truck pull this?

[tubular031]

Last night on the way home from work the chick and I stopped over at the local RV place because a trailer caught my eye as we passed. It’s a 34 foot KZ sportster. It’s a brandnew older model and they were pretty much begging me to take it away. They even offered to throw in a weight distributing hitch with the sway bar for free.

Here are the stats on the trailer 8100 empty, 800 dry hitch weight and a 2500 cargo capacity. I have a stock 01 f350 PSD SRW with air bags on the back and in about week a super man transmission o and I have the DIY intake too. I know I can pull it, my question is how well can I pull it? I had a gasser 1500 chevy that would have to work really really hard to pull my boat that only weighs 4200 lbs. I don’t think the PSD will have to work too hard on this trailer…. My main plan is to get a trailer that I can hook to the PSD and only realize its there when I look in the mirror.

What do you guys think?

[Dave]

It should pull that just fine IMO

[power95]

it should drag it around like nothin but u will notice it

[720Deere]

My buddy pulls a 10,000 lb fifth wheel camper with his 99 7.3 on 35s. The truck does a real respectable job of it. A bumper pull is a little different, but your looking at a little under 10,000 with it loaded and that should be a comfortable load.

[powerfarmer]

Your truck should pull it just fine. I pull a cattle trailer that grosses at +20,000lbs at it does a pretty good job.

[Logan]

I pulled a similar trailer back from the beach a while back for a buddy. I did not even know it was back there. You may want to get ya a flip chip with a tow tune on it. I think you would be very happy then.

[strokin_early_99]

I have towed a 10K trailer for over 7 years with my truck. With a stock truck towing a 10K trailer it well be noticed but it was built to handle that kind of load 24-7, so no worries.

With the new transmission make sure you get a tranny temp gauge. Even with a stock truck even a tranny can get hot and heat kills transmissions. You don't want to fry that new trans. At least with a tranny temp gauge you can pull over and let it cool down if it gets too hot.

If you are going to put in a chip of any kind, make sure you do the required supporting mods as well. Intake, exhaust, wicked wheel(or ATS compressor housing) and gauges.

Keep Strokin'

[mrnecsteve]

I say it sounds good. Hold out for a 1000 pound equaliser and be sure to use it !

[Blue01F250]

I think the guys got ya hooked up, just make sure you have a good hitch and you should be able to tow it fine... and make sure you keep an eye on those trans temps!

[tubular031]

Originally Posted by strokin_early_99

With the new transmission make sure you get a tranny temp gauge. Even with a stock truck even a tranny can get hot and heat kills transmissions. You don't want to fry that new trans. At least with a tranny temp gauge you can pull over and let it cool down if it gets too hot.

If you are going to put in a chip of any kind, make sure you do the required supporting mods as well. Intake, exhaust, wicked wheel(or ATS compressor housing) and gauges.

Keep Strokin'

Thanks for the advice. At the moment I am still trying to figure out what mod path I want to take. Gauges vs evo 2 vs quadzilla and so on..... I dont really like the many gauges look but I really like the DP chip features and programs. I dont know yet..... this tranny thing is a MAJOR setback in my mods but i guess that is ok for now. At least it did not blow up when I am in the middle of nowhere stranded at jim-bobjoes tranny shop with tooth picks putting my tranny back together. O well