5th wheel capacity question
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5th wheel capacity question
Why is the 5th wheel towing capacity so much less for this truck (click towing capacity button)?
https://www.ford.com/inventory/detai...6%3A87%3Aexact
https://www.ford.com/inventory/detai...6%3A87%3Aexact
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I wouldn't consult a website like that for the actual ratings. It could just be 19k because that is what Ford's default 5th wheel hitch is rated at. If you want the real ratings I would look at the RV and Trailer Towing Guide for that year and look for the 5th wheel/gooseneck section and use that number as a base. My 2022 F350 with a 7.3 is rated for 21,500lbs 5th wheel according to the RV and Trailer Towing Guide but according to Ford's website it is only rated for 15k lbs.
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I wouldn't consult a website like that for the actual ratings. It could just be 19k because that is what Ford's default 5th wheel hitch is rated at. If you want the real ratings I would look at the RV and Trailer Towing Guide for that year and look for the 5th wheel/gooseneck section and use that number as a base. My 2022 F350 with a 7.3 is rated for 21,500lbs 5th wheel according to the RV and Trailer Towing Guide but according to Ford's website it is only rated for 15k lbs.
It’s crazy what they’ll rate a truck at for the marketing numbers now a days.
Hell I think a srw 350 with PSD can be rated at like 25klbs. now with the right combo.
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I towed 19k on a gooseneck with it and it actually wasn't that bad. The 6.7 is limited to the tire weight rating or the RAWR or the trucks GVWR.
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What I *don't* understand is why the capacity drops from 24,480 for a gooseneck to 19,000 for a 5th wheel? I've been looking at a lot of F350's and not ran into any of them dropping between gooseneck to 5th Wheel?
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Pulling 20k, with an SRW, is a pretty dumb thing to do. Those ratings appear to be made by salesman, not engineers that give a darn about anybodies safety.
Its good to stay within the limits, and all. But those numbers are obviously sub-optimal setups. In my experience, if you need the diesel, you need DRW as well. For real towing, DRW is priceless.
Its good to stay within the limits, and all. But those numbers are obviously sub-optimal setups. In my experience, if you need the diesel, you need DRW as well. For real towing, DRW is priceless.
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Something to remember is that fifth-wheel RVs are NOT the same as a typical gooseneck. A typical fifth-wheel RV, even converted to a gooseneck pin, WILL have a heavier tongue weight than your standard gooseneck, and you can't really redistribute the weight like you can on a typical gooseneck because the weight is static - you can't move slides, furniture, cabinets, etc. very easily, not to mention part of the trailer is LITERALLY built over the tongue. With a gooseneck trailer, you have the option of adjusting the load fore and aft (usually) to keep the pin weight closer to something your truck can handle - and if there's ANY weight carried the tongue, it's generally not much because most of them don't have anything OVER the tongue to put something.
RVs and your typical enclosed/flatbed trailers of any kind cannot be compared apples-to-apples.
RVs and your typical enclosed/flatbed trailers of any kind cannot be compared apples-to-apples.
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It's pick your poison really. That guide has less for my cargo than what is on my sticker and on the website, but has more for trailer than what is on the website. So what makes one more authoritative than the other.