Hi all, I'm new to this forum and to towing a big toy hauler with a 98 4x4 Club cab 24v Cummins drw. I weighed my truck today and it came in at 7500 with less than 1/4 tank. My dry weight on my toy hauler has to be over 12k. So I'm almost 20K and I have even added anything. Sounds like a whole lotta weight to drag around. Will this truck handle it? Do I need to beef anything up?

We are getting ready to go on a mountainous 3000 mile road trip with all of this.

Thanks for your help

 

Hook on and go. Gauges are nice to monitor what your truck is doing, egt, trans (if you have automatic) fuel pressure, boost. My truck has a service body on it and weighs 10,700 lbs and the heaviest trailer I have pulled was not over 10,000lbs and it pulled it fine but I live in an area that is flat(we can watch our dog run away for three days) The egt gauge is nice when you have some long big hills. I was surprised how hot my truck would get on the hills.

 

monitor egts and auto tranny temp. if you can, if your close to stock you shouldnt have to worry that much, your truck will handle that weight no problem

 

Thanks a bunch I was getting concerned here. I have been told that I should put in a better torque converter and other things.

 

You should be all right as all the others say get some guages egt and tranny would be your most important with a basically stock truck. Some on here have pulled way more than that regularly. Sometimes with the 45' gooseneck and both pulling trucks plus dually going across scales hits 30,000 or more. Here is 25000 combined I had the other day with my 2500 CTD.

 

If it's been a while since the trans had been serviced and the read end oil changed I would do that before taking off if it was my truck

 

Your biggest concern should be your brakes. Make sure you can get it stopped.

Have fun.