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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
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Second, I would NEVER dream of putting 10K lbs behind my 39 year old half-ton rated Jimmy with the short wheelbase it has! Hell, the GVWR of my Jimmy is 5000 I think, and with a tongue weight of close to 1K lbs, that's gonna be almost maxing the GVWR on just the truck!
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Too Dumb To Know Better
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Texas
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
Why don't you flat tow it and avoid all the weight on the Blazer? You would sill need the good brakes though.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: USA
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
I once towed a 16' U-Haul car trailer with a 91 Cavalier on it fron Denver to Minneapolis- behind my 72 Blazer. I would call that the limit of safe.
I wouldn't care to do it again, but I would in a pinch. U-Haul's computer gave me the thumbs up or they wouldn't have rented it to me. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Bulverde, TX
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
True, that would be better than using a trailer with no brakes. At least you would save a few pounds and not put any weight on the tongue aka your rear leaf springs. But still, a shorter lighter vehicle pulling a longer heavier vehicle is always a little dicey regardless.
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Langley, BC, Canada
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
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I was going to use a tilt deck trailer, which we use for the bobcat. It's 4500lbs dry weight. Carries 16,000lbs roughly. I didn't want to use it though due to the weight, so I spent all day Saturday digging my buddy's 18ft flat deck out of his mud pit of a yard. It's around 2000-2500lbs dry weight. Went down yesterday afternoon with the top off..very cold drive. Loaded up the beast of a SUV and made the drive back to Bellingham where Bob (MUDMIZER) was kind enough to let me sleep over till today when I could cross the boarder. Once again, the bed was greatly appreciated Bob, hope to see your vehicles in the day light sometime ![]() The blazer pulled the trailer and 'burb great actually. For pulling around 7000lbs the Blazer didn't miss a beat. I honestly was surprised. The rearend only dropped maybe 2-3" overall. And I thought about a dolly or flat towing but I'm pretty sure that's not legal to do here in BC. Maybe in the states you can get away with it, but that's a long drive to flat tow. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get my trailer brakes hooked up in time or the weight distribution setup on. So it was all Blazer and driver doing the work... Here's a pic of it I just took. Just got home and unloaded it in the driveway. Poor old 'burb will probably get chopped up and put on a newer turbo diesel chassis ![]() Now I'm off to go pick up the '68 4x4 and bring it back today too...hopefully. It'll be a much lighter load though.
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Location: Washington, dC
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
Great to hear everything went well..sometimes everyone on these boards can be a bit too cautious. People towed with these trucks all the time when they came out..there were no 2010 silverado 3500 diesels available to do all your towing for you.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
You towed that without a top for 100 miles? In the Winter? Wow! Here in Texas I put the top back on in September when the nights start dipping into the 60's!
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Stalker Nate
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Langley, BC, Canada
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
It was a very very cold drive lol But without the top I was able to see everything better since I have those peep mirrors which are good for nothing when it comes to driving in general...especially towing a vehicle.
I just found another truck to buy. My neighbours are going to kill me though if I've got 4 of these beasts sitting in my driveway. Oh well...
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Central Coast California
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
![]() no way!!!
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: East Sooke B.C. Canada
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Re: How much weight can it tow?
Good to hear all went well.
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