2019 2500 Laramie 4x4 w/3.73 ratio

[CraigA]

Planning on getting 2019 Ram 2500 Laramie 4x4 with 3.73 axle ratio on monday and i pull a 12500 lb 5th wheel at least once a month and sometimes long distance. Sufficient or No?!

 

[MtnRider]

Gas or Diesel? big difference. Also any idea of the pin weight on that trailer? Might be pushing payload limits with a 2500.


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[CraigA]

Hitch weight is 2430 if that's what you're meaning. Don't see a pin weight

 

[farmallboy]

Answering "gas vs diesel" will change your questions answer.

If it's gas you would be fine.
Diesel would be an issue. Recommend 3500srw

 

[MtnRider]

Hitch weight is 2430 if that's what you're meaning. Don't see a pin weight

Yes, hitch/pin/tongue weight.

Gas or Diesel?

This is really a double edge sword when dealing with a 2500. The cummins is the better engine option (my opinion) and will give you the highest tow rating but it will limit your payload. The gas 2500 has a higher payload but lower tow rating. If you got a gas with 3.73 you would have the payload capacity but be pushing close to the tow rating of that setup. If you had the cummins you would have more then enough towing but be close to going over on the payload.



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[MB390]

MY 2019 6.7 CC tradesman 4x4 pulls my 13K 5th wheel, 2000# pin weight no problem, after I got air bags. my only problem now is getting a speeding ticket

 

[Lary0071]

I use a 2019 Ram 2500 6.4L 3.73 to pull a Grand Design Reflection 311BHS (38 foot, 13,000 lb 5th wheel) and it pulls with no problem. On a mountain climb a Cummins would out pull it, so if you feel that your in a race up the side of mountains... you would rather get the Cummins. But I'll still pull any mountain I want and get to the same campsite. I also pull mini excavators, track skid steer and other small equipment (under 14K most of the time) and love the truck. Fuel economy while pulling the camper or equipment tends to be in the 7 to 8 mpg area. If I were to do it again, I would buy the same truck again. But then.... I don't feel the stress of knowing that I may go 45mph up a mountain pass that a diesel would pull at 70. I'm not typically drag racing while towing, I just need to tow it and get there.

 

[Brutal_HO]

If your "planning" to buy a truck to pull a fifth wheel and you are buying a diesel, you should be planning for a 3500.

A diesel 2500 doesn't have sufficient payload to haul any fifth wheel above "1/2 ton towable" class.

 

[roegs]

I'm waiting with the others to see if the truck is gas or diesel. If diesel, it will come to a more defined question. If you're asking can the truck pull it, you get one set of answers. If your asking if it meets the manufacturer ratings (Payload etc.) you'll get another answer (as Brutal_HO mentioned above). Each person has to decide on their own. I just went through this same situation myself with a very similar trailer. I ended up ordering a SRW 3500. Not saying that is the correct answer - it was just the right answer for me.

 

[MtnRider]

Oh boy, here we go with the gas vs. Diesel wars again......


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[roegs]

Oh boy, here we go with the gas vs. Diesel wars again......


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I'm thinking it doesn't need to be. For the OP, if he's talking diesel it will be payload A, and if he's talking gas it will be Payload B. OP can then decide what he wants to do.

 

[Epsilon Plus]

Payload shmayload. Axle weight.

 

[MtnRider]

I'm thinking it doesn't need to be. For the OP, if he's talking diesel it will be payload A, and if he's talking gas it will be Payload B. OP can then decide what he wants to do.

I agree. My comment was directed to the guy above who was starting to go down that road.......


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