RE: Towing Capacity
That Gross weight rating of 10000lbs is the rating for the hitch with the equalizer bar type hitch. Your GVWR WILL be different. Need to know what model, year, engine, trans, rear gear. Look on the Drivers door labels for GVWR.
My '99 K-1500 5.7L, 4L60, 3.42 is rated by GM to haul 5500lbs. That includes the following: Trailer, driver, ALL passengers, full load of fuel and gear in the trailer AND truck. My trailer weighs 3800 EMPTY. Once I get clothes , food, gear, Propane, Full load of water, firewood, etc. it weighs about 4,900. With me, the wife, and a full load of GAS we are 50/75lbs below GVWR of the truck. So I dump 1/2 the water and take only essentials. Which gives me about 200 below GVWR of the truck.
Also you have to balance that with the GCVWR(Gross COMBINED Vehicle Weight rating), GAWR(Gross AXLE Weight Rating) (Front and REAR). Overload any of these or any combination and you'll be UNSAFE and way over the capacity for the brakes and the drive train. For a toy hauler that has a GVWR of 15,000 you need a truck that has a GCVWR of at least 20,000lbs(weight of your truck and trailer with all the gear, passengers, driver, fuel, water, propane, etc. That equates to at least a 3500 series (Possibly a dually) with a minimum of a BIG BLOCK, 4L80 (or Allison), and a 4.10 or 4.54/4.55 rear.
That Gross weight rating of 10000lbs is the rating for the hitch with the equalizer bar type hitch. Your GVWR WILL be different. Need to know what model, year, engine, trans, rear gear. Look on the Drivers door labels for GVWR.
My '99 K-1500 5.7L, 4L60, 3.42 is rated by GM to haul 5500lbs. That includes the following: Trailer, driver, ALL passengers, full load of fuel and gear in the trailer AND truck. My trailer weighs 3800 EMPTY. Once I get clothes , food, gear, Propane, Full load of water, firewood, etc. it weighs about 4,900. With me, the wife, and a full load of GAS we are 50/75lbs below GVWR of the truck. So I dump 1/2 the water and take only essentials. Which gives me about 200 below GVWR of the truck.
Also you have to balance that with the GCVWR(Gross COMBINED Vehicle Weight rating), GAWR(Gross AXLE Weight Rating) (Front and REAR). Overload any of these or any combination and you'll be UNSAFE and way over the capacity for the brakes and the drive train. For a toy hauler that has a GVWR of 15,000 you need a truck that has a GCVWR of at least 20,000lbs(weight of your truck and trailer with all the gear, passengers, driver, fuel, water, propane, etc. That equates to at least a 3500 series (Possibly a dually) with a minimum of a BIG BLOCK, 4L80 (or Allison), and a 4.10 or 4.54/4.55 rear.
