Truck and tire suggestions for heavy Arctic Fox camper?
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vintageracer
To Infinity and Beyond!
Just get 5 PU trucks.
1 for every day of the work week.
1 for every day of the work week.
LeftCoastKiteboarding
Active member
vintageracer
To Infinity and Beyond!
My Dually purchased new by me 24 years ago. The only vehicle I have ever owned that I purchased new. Still have the truck today. Cut it in half and stretched it when it was brand new!
Easy to drive in traffic and parking is a breeze! I have bought sets of 6 tires several times! I do piss a lot more now than I did when I first purchased the truck. Not sure if it's the ride or that fact that I'm getting old?
Easy to drive in traffic and parking is a breeze! I have bought sets of 6 tires several times! I do piss a lot more now than I did when I first purchased the truck. Not sure if it's the ride or that fact that I'm getting old?
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Darwin
Explorer
It would be nice to know the total load on the rear axle. If the camper is 5,000 lbs and the rear empty weights 3,000 lbs. The OP would already be above or at max limit for any light duty single rear wheel rim and tire. In an off camber situations that could transfer a greater amount of weight to one side. I believe that is an overloaded situation or at the very least at the limit of the tires and wheels. The OP said he already cracked a wheel, as evidence. I am unaware of any light duty tire and wheel in a SRW configuration that would be applicable to the OP, hence the reason for a dually. The OP could consider 19.5's SRW wheels and tires but those would suffer from the same drawback as dually with regards to airing down.
deserteagle56
Adventurer
For me the dually part has never been a problem as far as driving it around town. It's that NV5600 manual tranny - ain't like a Mustang's 6-speed! Slow and deliberate is the best way to describe the gear shifting procedure. On the other hand, it's a tranny I will never have to worry about hurting. The ride is perfectly acceptable to me. As far as the tires, yes, I'll have to buy 6 but then it appears the tires I've got on there will last ~60,000 miles and that's going to take me a long time.
or fleet manager gave us a dually last year for a temporary replacement of our srw superduty.we forklifted a couple manhole castings into the box for some weight just to make the drive bearable. it was a horrible city truck.we ended up driving the 1 ton dually dumptruck more because it actually had a better ride.
Regcabguy
Oil eater.
Parking is a breeze?
LeftCoastKiteboarding
Active member
Ya....wondered about that too. That thing is a mile long. Can’t park it anywhere I live. 
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vintageracer
To Infinity and Beyond!
You have heard of the that "10 Acre Field" to turn it around?
I'm good to go with an 11 acre yard so no parking or turning around worries for me!
I'm good to go with an 11 acre yard so no parking or turning around worries for me!
LeftCoastKiteboarding
Active member
Well there ya go.
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dwh
Tail-End Charlie
G.T. 350? More like G.T. 35000
dwilliams
New member
Sorry for not chiming in or responding. I thought that expedition portal was going to alert me when people commented on my post, but I never got any kind of notifications to that effect. I just happened to log in today to check on it, and I am quite surprised at all the response I have missed. I appreciate everyone's input, and plan to respond. I'm just learning how this forum works.