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Old 11-29-2020, 04:04 PM   #21
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One thing to remember about "published" weights is that they do not include options like the awning, nor do they include the weight of batteries or filled propane tanks. IMHO, you can bet that your pin weight will be higher than the "published" weight before you put any clothing, food and other normal supplies inside.
 
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Loaded for a 2 month trip to FLA, my pine weight was 3500lbs.
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Loaded for a 2 month trip to FLA, my pine weight was 3500lbs.
Either I can't type, or spell check got me. Obviously I meant "pin" weight.
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Old 12-04-2020, 06:01 PM   #26
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I have done multiple searches for this question, both on this site and the Keystone site and I'm still not sure of a definite answer. I do not have a Monty yet, but the DW and I like the 3120rl the best. The published weight is listed as 11999 lbs empty and a pin weight of 2350. That gives me a pin weight ratio of 19.6%. So my question is, when I am at full capacity of 16k (which may never happen as we will be longtimers not fulltimers) will that ratio still be the same or close? I know that it's not an exact measurement, but for those of you that have scaled your rig in full combat ready mode, has the ratio been the same as empty? I'm a Ford guy and the DW wants to keep the TV to a SRW. So I know that I wont be over on the GCWR with either the 6.7l or the 7.3l engine. I trying to find out my margin of error on the pin weight. Thanks for everyone's help and advise.
Our 5er is 16k gross and on our recent trip south , loaded up for FT-ing for the winter, I weighed it and it was 500 under and the pin was right on 20%. Course that put me 500 over on GCWR. I'm running an F350 psd SRW and was almost 300 over pin weight. If you go gas you may stay within limits as the lower engine weight will give you more payload, but you will still be very close.
I am currently shopping for a dually. I think you may want to consider that. That 3120 is a sweet floorplan but lots of storage that will just naturally get you close to the gross. I find storage space in a fifth wheel seems to have a magnetic affect on collecting stuff.
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Old 12-04-2020, 09:05 PM   #27
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Our 5er is 16k gross and on our recent trip south , loaded up for FT-ing for the winter, I weighed it and it was 500 under and the pin was right on 20%. Course that put me 500 over on GCWR. I'm running an F350 psd SRW and was almost 300 over pin weight. If you go gas you may stay within limits as the lower engine weight will give you more payload, but you will still be very close.
I am currently shopping for a dually. I think you may want to consider that. That 3120 is a sweet floorplan but lots of storage that will just naturally get you close to the gross. I find storage space in a fifth wheel seems to have a magnetic affect on collecting stuff.
I used to have a career where you moved constantly. If it didn't fit in a 32 ft UHaul truck it went to the curb. Different career and now nearly 30 years later in the same house, boy does junk grow to the size of it's container!

What is your GCWR and your payload rating? I was thinking that with the 7.3l gas engine and the 4:30 gears, the GCWR was 27,500. The diesel has the GCWR of 30,000 lbs. That leaves the truck an allowance of 11,500 lbs and about 13,500 lbs for the diesel. Since the pin weight is included in the RV's GVWR, I figured the actual GCWR would be closer to 24,000 or so. Am I missing something?
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Either I can't type, or spell check got me. Obviously I meant "pin" weight.
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I used to have a career where you moved constantly. If it didn't fit in a 32 ft UHaul truck it went to the curb. Different career and now nearly 30 years later in the same house, boy does junk grow to the size of it's container!

What is your GCWR and your payload rating? I was thinking that with the 7.3l gas engine and the 4:30 gears, the GCWR was 27,500. The diesel has the GCWR of 30,000 lbs. That leaves the truck an allowance of 11,500 lbs and about 13,500 lbs for the diesel. Since the pin weight is included in the RV's GVWR, I figured the actual GCWR would be closer to 24,000 or so. Am I missing something?
We're currently back home for the holidays and the Cat sheets are in the 5er down South so I'm working from memory which isn't that great at this age.
Anyway the charts below show the GCWR at 23,500. Truck weighed in at 9k leaving me 14,500 for trailer. Seems like that it was a little over 15k. The GVWR for the truck is 11,500 and seems I was around 500 over that.
Seems like the numbers you are looking at are for the dually's. Makes a big difference. I also show the door stickers which show the real story for my particular truck. Now if you take the 15,700 max trailer from the chart and add it to 11,500 GVWR of the truck you get 27,200 for combination weight so I'm not really sure how all these numbers add up. Seems like when I ordered the truck I was shown a total around 28k but I can't find that.
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We're currently back home for the holidays and the Cat sheets are in the 5er down South so I'm working from memory which isn't that great at this age.
Anyway the charts below show the GCWR at 23,500. Truck weighed in at 9k leaving me 14,500 for trailer. Seems like that it was a little over 15k. The GVWR for the truck is 11,500 and seems I was around 500 over that.
Seems like the numbers you are looking at are for the dually's. Makes a big difference. I also show the door stickers which show the real story for my particular truck. Now if you take the 15,700 max trailer from the chart and add it to 11,500 GVWR of the truck you get 27,200 for combination weight so I'm not really sure how all these numbers add up. Seems like when I ordered the truck I was shown a total around 28k but I can't find that.
Brochure information is not official. Only the information on the vehicle labeling is official. Your truck has a GVWR of 11.5K. That's its maximum acceptable load. GCWR cannot be certified because they can change just by changing transmission gearing. For instance; our truck had a published 22K GCWR with 3.73 gearing. I upgraded that to 23.5K by going to 4.10 gearing. Bottom line; nothing can be done to increase the vehicle GVWR. Only the vehicle manufacturer or a certified vehicle modifier have the authority to do that.
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i have a pin weigh of 3,000lbs with a 2020 f-250 and 5,000 lb air bags. (only need air bags when you go over bridges to smooth out the rocking....i set at 40lbs )

I also have the trailer package which gives the 3.55 axle and the same axle
( dana-275) and springs as the ford f-350.

the tires are your weakest link as they only handle 3640lbs of weight each

I had only a 100-150 lb lea way with these tires. And if you hit a few bumps the 3000 lbs can become 3500 for a few seconds.

I solved this by getting rid of my NEW Goodyear wranglers (came with truck) and going to
Yokohamas geolander that are rated at 4080 lbs each.

This gives me a 880 lb lea way in weight. And they are a quiet ride on the highway.

of course my truck is a diesel. Don't even consider gas...you will be one sorry puppy.

I cruse at 65 mph at about 1500 rpm. and power to spare going up hills...
Just curious what does your door sticker say about payload with the upgraded tow package. I would think the tires would have been changed out for the higher capacity at the factory.
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Brochure information is not official. Only the information on the vehicle labeling is official. Your truck has a GVWR of 11.5K. That's its maximum acceptable load. GCWR cannot be certified because they can change just by changing transmission gearing. For instance; our truck had a published 22K GCWR with 3.73 gearing. I upgraded that to 23.5K by going to 4.10 gearing. Bottom line; nothing can be done to increase the vehicle GVWR. Only the vehicle manufacturer or a certified vehicle modifier have the authority to do that.
That's correct but the door stickers only give vehicle limits and not GCWR. That's why I dug up a brochure online. I'm not near my truck and don't have the manual but I found a pdf at the Ford site. The manual gives the GCWR for my truck as 28,700 which is what the dealer gave me when I ordered it. Of course that is only what my truck can drag down the road. The payload is the one that means business and where I exceed the max by a few hundred #'s.
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That's correct but the door stickers only give vehicle limits and not GCWR.
That's because GCWR is not a limiter. It's a variable recommendation set by the vehicle manufacturer. When hauling 5th wheel trailers you'll almost always run out of tow vehicle load capacity long before reaching the GCWR.
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Just FYI I weighed my rig loaded for a 4 week trip. There are many variables that affect pin weight. The one I want to shed some light on is the difference that a full tank of fresh water makes. My tank is all the way to the rear, I weighed with tank full pulled off scale emptied tank and reweighed.

A full tank of 50 gallons reduced my pin weight by 320 lbs.
With water 21% and without water 23% of total weight.
A safe estimate to ensure you have enough truck would be 25%.
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Here are my 3 weight tickets from cat scales, the third one is just the truck before we left home to travel to Ca.

The second one is truck and trailer and both loaded with full tank of water

The first one is leaving Ca to go home to Al, as you can see we grow some weight in 18 months, not much but we did. Trailer is loaded and full tank of water, front axle weight has shifted and I tribute that to the new Companion hitch in the truck. Truck and trailer are max out on weight and to the plus side, not much but it is.

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Went from a 3790RD to a 3120RL, big difference in length from almost 43 ft to 35ft. Always had all the heavy stuff like tools, bbq, spare parts, fold out tables, spare Def for the truck, awning shade covers etc in the rear storage areas of the 3790. Carried the lighter aluminum lawn chairs our folding electric bikes and related up in the front storage. Towed great and put thousands of miles on it. We had to downsize all the tools carried, spare parts, number of folding tables and generally alot of the things we normally carried with us in the 3790RD. We used the trailer about 10 months of the year and lived in it in Florida for 5months in winter so it was great to be able to carry everything we thought we'd need and did at some point use. We bought a park model so we downsized to the 3120RL and the only real storage is in the front end. Strategically cutting back on what we carry and putting a bike rack on the rear where the electric bikes now ride has allowed us to still carry quite a bit. Honestly due to the length differences I don't feel any real difference on the pin of the truck while driving it but I do feel a huge difference in turning radius on corners and getting into tight spaces. The 3120 is a nice trailer, storage area is large, how you store & pack will affect the pin weight. I will say we don't carry near as many cloth's etc now either which can add up. Also there is quite a lot of storage space inside the 3120 mid cabin and in the rear behind the wheels. We've put some of the heavier stuff back there and the truck really doesn't even know its on the back of it. 2017 SRW Denali 3500 diesel but then again it towed the 3790Rd without issue as well but I knew it was back there. Not so much anymore with this much smaller trailer.
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