Sooite, I'm a Ford guy (very happy, by the way) so I don't have Duramax experience but I do have 3295RK experience so thought I'd chip in here, if that's ok. The GVWR of the 3295RK is 14,300 lbs. Published UVW on our '03 model is 10,360. Delivered, ours is 10,760 UVW. That's on the sticker in a kitchen cabinet. When we were weekenders/vacationers, actual scaled weight with full fresh water tank was 12,500, give or take a few pounds. Pin weight was around 2700. Fulltiming and loaded to the hilt, scaled weight is 13,980 with full freshwater tank. Pinweight is 3120.
Yesterday we reached our "home" park and will now offload everything we haven't used in this first fifteen months of fulltiming. That will shed some weight. I've heard of one other 3295 weighing very close to ours. So we really do need to shed some weight.
I hope these numbers give you some idea what to expect. I would imagine yours will come in something less than ours unless you load it to the gills like we did.
We're also towing with a shortbed truck and Reese manual slider hitch (ours is the 15K). No problem.
The Duramax will have no problem with the weight. If there's a question, it's whether you'll exceed the truck's GVWR, GCWR, and GAWR. You'll likely be over on the first two, many of us are to one degree or another. The one I'd most be concerned with is the axle rating. If you can, weigh each axle of the truck with a full tank of fuel, normal passengers and gear, etc. If the rear axle weight plus the pinweight exceeds the axle rating (GAWR) then I'd be concerned. The GAWR is probably on the info plate on the door or door jamb. Just my opinion.
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