My new fifth wheel
#16
They have done a good job lightening them up my 89 King of The Road is 28ft and loaded ready to go is 11,000#. Every bit of weight you put in the trailer is going to transfer to the hitch because I can tell when all the tanks are dry and when they are wet from ride height. It's also a bit of hand full to tow especially down hills when all four tanks are full which is rare for me to tow it like that but just be aware it will happen at some point.
#17
Oh yeah, they've definitely lightened them quite a bit. Ours is a 2012 Flagstaff 32' with double slides, and it is 7900lb unloaded. I haven't weighed it, but I'm guessing it's around 9000 or so loaded without water. I normally don't tow with the waste tanks full, but honestly, I can't tell a difference when they are.
8.3#/gal*130/gal= 1079#
#18
The 6228 truck weight is with the hitch, I did one weigh with just the truck on the scales and then hooked up and weighed the entire rig.
#24
Just got back from our first trip with the fiver, avg'd 9.0mpg for the trip. Was getting mid 9's going up there, but hit some head/cross winds coming home so it dropped the average down to 9mpg 340 miles, 37.5 gallons used. Truck pulled fantastic, very stable even in windy conditions.
#25
The MPG is what it is towing = not good. Hell, i'd be very happy w/ 9mpg that load. The most important part is safety, which sounds like it was stable and you never felt overwhelmed. That's huge!
#29
Empty, he would get about 25% better than mine. The new 6.7L is a marvelous piece of machinery.
#30
Not even close. His numbers are about 1-2 MPG less than my fuel-hog 6.4L. The new 6.7L PowerStroke will pull about 12-13 with that load. My dad had a 2011 6.7L (he sold his fiver and truck), and towing a 32', 8k (unloaded weight) fiver, he would regularly get between 12 and 13 depending on speed. These are hand-calced numbers. We had nearly identical fifth wheels, and his '11 6.7L would get right at 20% better fuel economy than mine.
Empty, he would get about 25% better than mine. The new 6.7L is a marvelous piece of machinery.
Empty, he would get about 25% better than mine. The new 6.7L is a marvelous piece of machinery.
It would take ALOT of towing miles to break even in a diesel.