What have you towed lately

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GarrettGmc

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Well my truck hasn't really towed anything except the empty trailer a couple times.

But the trailer has had the absolute piss worked out of it the past month, a couple co-workers borrowed it, one to get a parts Camaro, one to go down to South Carolina to pick up a boat and trailer, and this past weekend me and a couple friends hauled a John Deere tractor on it behind a friend's dump truck.
Once I get this damn fuel pressure issue fixed I hope and swear I'll actually tow MY trailer with MY truck!

Haha thats always how it is. You've got something and everyone wants to borrow it or your help
 

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Haha thats always how it is. You've got something and everyone wants to borrow it or your help

I'm willing to let my friends borrow it because I know that it won't get beat on, they'd absolutely trash their own stuff before they'd damage anyone else's. We're all the same way so I'm not worried about it.

Besides, I tell them all the first one is free; after that they need to pay me U-Haul rates.
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Went and picked up a non running non driving K20 so I could make a truck bed trailer out of it. Sold every usable part and scrapping the rest tomorrow.

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My younger sister's car **** the crank pulley/balancer; made two out of one so she was stranded on her way to work, so I had to bring her in, then run and get my trailer so I could bring the car to the mechanic's shop.
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Truck did just fine once I got moving, getting started was a bear and there was a couple hills where I lost a good amount of speed just getting up them.
Needs air bags, more fuel, and more tuning.
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Also discovered the plate has been torn off the trailer and is flat out gone. So that's cool.
 

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Maybe shoulda backed that thing on? Looks like you couldn't have put it too much farther back. I think your truck is pitched worse than my 1500 with enclosed hauler out back. Have you considered a WD hitch? You're not scared of loading that thing down. Once you experience it, it is a world of difference.
 

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Maybe shoulda backed that thing on? Looks like you couldn't have put it too much farther back. I think your truck is pitched worse than my 1500 with enclosed hauler out back. Have you considered a WD hitch? You're not scared of loading that thing down. Once you experience it, it is a world of difference.

The ramps are an absolute ***** on this trailer, I need to get them cut into slide ins. I was prepared to take them off but my dad said to not bother so I said **** it; and the angles are a bit deceiving, there was still quite a bit of room on the front of the trailer.
I'm kind of regretting not going bigger, I think a 22 foot dovetail may be a suitable replacement for this thing.
Partly the reason it sags so much is I think the leaf springs are pooched, this truck spent most of it's life hauling big 5th wheels and other heavy ****.
I have toyed with a WD hitch but I'm still not entirely sure; at least as far as my open deck goes, in the future when I have a big enclosed or a camper to pull I'm coughing up for a Blue Ox WD hitch.
 

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This was about 4 years ago, before I got my two K1500s. I finally got around to towing my 1991 S10 to my house. It had been sitting at my uncles house for a few years. My S10 is longer than it looks, it barely fits on my uncle's 16' trailer.

And no, the trailer is not connected to the truck. I think I was doing something to the hitch or fixing the wiring or something like that...
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The ramps are an absolute ***** on this trailer, I need to get them cut into slide ins. I was prepared to take them off but my dad said to not bother so I said **** it; and the angles are a bit deceiving, there was still quite a bit of room on the front of the trailer.
I'm kind of regretting not going bigger, I think a 22 foot dovetail may be a suitable replacement for this thing.
Partly the reason it sags so much is I think the leaf springs are pooched, this truck spent most of it's life hauling big 5th wheels and other heavy ****.
I have toyed with a WD hitch but I'm still not entirely sure; at least as far as my open deck goes, in the future when I have a big enclosed or a camper to pull I'm coughing up for a Blue Ox WD hitch.

Your fender heights were about the same as mine from what I recall, your springs may not be as hammered as you think. It's easy to have lots of tongue weight.
 

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Picked this up for my oldest son. Needs the engine rebuilt/replaced (4.7L dropped valve seat), rust repair (but not bad for an ‘03), and repaint. For some reason he really likes the look of the Dodges. [emoji849] The price was right so I said okay. He’s got a little over a year to get it on the road by the time he’s old enough to drive.

My truck towed it like a dream. Plenty of tug and cruised down the highway in OD at 65mph at times, never even broke a sweat. (In all fairness it was flat NJ roads). Roughly 8000lbs total trailer weight, 9mpg.
 

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@BNielsen Look at how Andy's truck sits flatter than yours with a heavier load. The difference isn't out back, it's up front. That longer wheelbase makes it a lot harder for tongue weight to hike the front of the truck up. This is where WD makes all the difference. I went from open deck non wd to enclosed with wd, gained a lot of trailer weight, and the truck sat flatter than it did open deck. Reason being I had a ramp situation just like you that pushed the car too far forward. I'm not saying you need to go wd because what you did does not look unsafe, but I am promising you you'll like the difference in the way it drives. I was a bit skeptical myself until I tried it. It won't make you less of a man, I promise.
 
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