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I haven't towed it yet, and I'm not for sure if I will, but I did hook it up to see how it looked.
The truck is a 97, WT1500, 4.3, auto, 2wd, 3.42 gears. The brakes on this truck work really well, way better than any other GMT400 1500 I've owned.
The camper is a new 24' model that may weight around 6000 to 6500 loaded.
All 5 of the campgrounds we go to are 15 to 20 miles from home and the route consists of very lightly travelled rural highways. I could pull it down into 3rd gear and chug along at 50 mph without disrupting traffic.
I normally use the V10 powered Excursion in the background, but then if I want to bring bikes or firewood etc I need to come back home and get the truck, then later go back home again to get the Excursion to haul the camper home. We usually camp about 3 weekends a month.
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While I tried and failed. The suspension and handling was good, the brakes were excellent, but the lil 4.3 couldn't do it. My max speed was about 50 mph and that was running it way harder than it could endure for long. It really didn't want to go over about 40 mph.
So is a 5.3 swap easy in these trucks?