On 6/1/2013 8:30 PM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 1, 3:33 pm, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:
On 6/1/2013 3:58 PM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

On 6/1/2013 2:26 PM, thumper wrote:
On 6/1/2013 9:59 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:

I have been talking to some truck guys around here and we are looking at
a 1500 Silverado four door with a 5.3...

I tow my 4500 lb boat with a 5.3L Suburban and while it does fine I
wouldn't want much more weight behind me. What is the trailer weight
and what kind of brakes does it have? Check what the vehicle is rated
to tow and leave some margin. Consider all the crap you load into it.

Yeah, the setup we are considering now is a 17 foot at 3200 pounds. That
leaves me almost 2000 pounds for crap...

Just found this... Hummmmmm...

http://worcester.craigslist.org/cto/3781170945.html

...

That's sweet looking, Scott, and i dont' men to downgrade it, but
there's considerations. For one thing it's nice, but it's still a 1
trick pony. When the motorhome craze got started, it wasn't long
before you saw a lot of Winabago's parked with weeds growing around
them and moss creeping up the north side. Probably due to lack of
interest because people found out they weren't or couldn't use them as
much as their dreams said they could. Annual license and ins. is much
more than a pull behind camper, and 6-8 (maybe 10) mpg. got to be
really heavy.

Also consider... that motor camper is old. and sat most all it;s life.
low miles is good, but age on seals, hoses, tires isn't. Not saying it
would be, but it *could* be a maintenance bucket. And this isn't
counting the plumbing on the inside...

But on the bright side, mechanically it's old school and nothing you
couldn't handle.

On the really bright side, if one was going to use it in the summer
and make 200 +/- one-way jaunts on weekends, it might be ideal. and
you could pull a light bike trailer behind it with little problem.

The thing is to to use it, IF you have a use for it


Well, a typical race season is 22 weekends... and that's just the local
stuff... Still leaning toward the pull behind anyway, if we get another
truck Jess will have a vehicle too.