O.K. I believe I have looked everywhere to find out what is the gross weight I can haul T.V. T.T. and cargo but I will admit it may be looking right at it. T.V. is a 1992 Chevrolet K2500 3/4 ton H.D. with a 5.7 gas automatic and only 258,000 miles still looks ok and runs great. Door tag says GVWR 8600/3901 GAWR4250/1928 GAWR 6000/2722 LB/KG Truck alone weighs 6750 pounds. I appericate any info anyone can offer. (even if it means just pointing out what I am missing).
Thanks Jerry
You already have it. The door tag says GVWR 8600 pounds and If that 6750 pound number is as scaled weight then subtract 6750 from 8600 and you get 1850 pounds. I am guessing that you took that 6750 number from someplace other than scale weight? So to that you could probably add 500 to 800 pounds for fuel, tools people over the obligatory 150 pound driver. So I would be willing to guess far closer to a ready to travel weight of 7000+ pounds. Further reducing your net cargo carrying capacity by a like amount.
My truck is a little newer and has the 454, but this might get you close. My 1998 owners manual says that a 5.7L with a 3.73 rear end can tow 6,000 lbs and with a 4.10 it can tow 7,500 lbs. By the way, you have a pretty heavy truck, my scaled weight with the 454, me, turnover ball hitch and a half tank of gas was only 6,600 lbs.
Pat
'98 Chevy K2500HD 4x4 454 3.73
'06 S&S Montana Bitterroot 8.5 ASC
'00 FR Sandpiper 30SPCS 5er Toy Hauler
First things first thank you both for a quick reply. The 6750# came from the scales truck and myself truck has a bed liner custom made out of 1/4 inch diamond tread plate and I am a little over 150 pounds lol. The reason I was wondering is I read in the forums when someone says their total weight T.V.& T.T. weighes so much and maybe overweight and knowing truck is so heavy I was just wondering. by the way my combined weight is about 12,400# truck and trailer from the cat scales.
Is this a crew cab? Ext cab? or reg cab? 6700 for a crew cab sounds about right, an ext should be 6000 and a reg cab 4800-5500 or so depending upon the options.
My 2000 reg cab C2500 C6p etc pkg, 2wd, granted all of 2 chargable options, weighs 4800 sitting there empty! with the rack on it, about 5400 lbs. My 88 ext cab with a 454, 4wd was just under 6000, and my 96 CCab with a diesel was 6500 lbs. If you have a reg cab, you have one heavy sucker of a bed as you mention, or that 6700 includes hitch wt and people!
I would not worry too much about a combined wt of 12500 or so with a typical 8 lug truck, be it a Chebby, dorf or dogde, no matter the motor, altho if a 105HP 292 I6 like my old 81 C2500, you will be a bit slow, but no issues as far as handling etc goes.
Marty
05 Chev CC D/A LS Dooley
92 Navistar dump truck, 7.3L 7 sp, 4.33 gears with a Detroit no spin
00 Chev C2500, V5700, 4L80E, 4.10, base truck, no options!
92 Red-e-haul 12K equipment trailer
3 Single axle utility trailers
It is a regular cab silverado (loaded) and 6750 weight is truck,myself(225#)and prob. half a tank of gas (16.5)gallons If memory serves me right all three axles were about 4,000 pounds each (front rear and tamdem axles on trailer) pretty well balanced (W.D. bars are pretty much for looks only on 4th. link from end you can put them on by hand. Never had any trouble hauling it traveled from Michigan to San Antoine TX.twice(sorry to all Texans out there prob. spelled that wrong). No power problems or anything like that. Like I say I was just wondering.
Thanks again
Jerry
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