Hauling/Transporting An 8n From NJ to ME

[keegs]

Just did another tow capacity check with my owner's manual this time and it says:

Vehicle* Axle Ratio Maximum Trailer Weight GCWR**

Manual Transmission,
2.8L Engine 4.10 1,900 lbs (861 kg) 6,000 lbs (2 722 kg)

**The Gross Combination Weight Rating (GCWR) is the
total allowable weight of the completely loaded vehicle
and trailer including any passengers, cargo, equipment
and conversions. The GCWR for your vehicle should
not be exceeded.
You can ask your dealer for our trailering information or
advice, or you can write us at the address listed in your
Warranty and Owner Assistance Information Booklet.

Need to verify the axle ratio.

Weekly rentals on a full size pickup are in the $350 range which is doable...then there's the cost of the car trailer rental.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Tell me everything you can about your vehicle, look at my first response, and I will tell you the tow rating of your vehicle. I have a towing guide that covers all vehicles for the last 15 years or so.

Its really pointless though. No way a 4 cylinder Colorado can handle this load.

We know its a Colorado. What year? Bed length? Cab style? Motor? Tranny type? 4x4 or not?


Chris

 

[whodat526]

Tell me everything you can about your vehicle, look at my first response, and I will tell you the tow rating of your vehicle. I have a towing guide that covers all vehicles for the last 15 years or so.

Its really pointless though. No way a 4 cylinder Colorado can handle this load.

We know its a Colorado. What year? Bed length? Cab style? Motor? Tranny type? 4x4 or not?


Chris

i would have to agree to an extent that the colorado is to small to haul the load as far as you are wonting to go but if it was just local it would pull it fine i hauled a 8n and bushhog around on a 16ft pipe top trailer with my 1994 s10 i had with no trouble but wish the brakes where a little better but then again the trailer had breaks that worked so that helped alot

 

[keegs]

Tell me everything you can about your vehicle, look at my first response, and I will tell you the tow rating of your vehicle. I have a towing guide that covers all vehicles for the last 15 years or so.

Its really pointless though. No way a 4 cylinder Colorado can handle this load.

We know its a Colorado. What year? Bed length? Cab style? Motor? Tranny type? 4x4 or not?


Chris

Thanks Chris,

My Colorado is a stock, 2006, extended cab, 6 ft. bed, 4 cyl, 4x4 w/ manual 5 speed trans.

I have a Draw-Tite hitch installed on it with 600 lb tongue weight and 6000 lb towing weight rating. The Draw-Tite ball mount has a 3/4 inch rise/2 inch drop and a 6,000 lb weight rating. I think I have a 1 3/4" ball on there now. I use it to tow a small 4x8 utility trailer.

I've been looking at the U-Haul car trailers. They're about a ton.

I'm going to run this all by my dealer service guy as well to see what he says.

As an aside I'll say that with little (or no really) prior experience with tractors, this shopping around I'm doing isn't a waste of time.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Thanks Chris,

My Colorado is a stock, 2006, extended cab, 6 ft. bed, 4 cyl, 4x4 w/ manual 5 speed trans.

I have a Draw-Tite hitch installed on it with 600 lb tongue weight and 6000 lb towing weight rating. The Draw-Tite ball mount has a 3/4 inch rise/2 inch drop and a 6,000 lb weight rating. I think I have a 1 3/4" ball on there now. I use it to tow a small 4x8 utility trailer.

I've been looking at the U-Haul car trailers. They're about a ton.

I'm going to run this all by my dealer service guy as well to see what he says.

As an aside I'll say that with little (or no really) prior experience with tractors, this shopping around I'm doing isn't a waste of time.

I checked my guide. Realize its only a trailer sales guide and not the bible. Its a guide only but according to the guide for your truck with both the 3.73 and 4.10 gear ratios the tow rating is 1,900# for the 2.8L I4 4x4 with manual tranny. That is about enough to tow the trailer only. No way you are going to tow that tractor. There is a max GCVWR (gross combined vehicle wheel rating) or max of truck/cargo/trailer/load of 6,000#. This is not your tow rating but instead the max weight it can lug down the road total.

I was not implying it was a waste of time to shop around but the fact is there is no way you could tow that load that many miles without taking major life out of your truck...

One other thing I see alot is guys get hung up on tractors or trailer prices in their area. They are what they are. For example I can buy a trailer for 2/3 the cost you guys can on the East Coast. Its a matter of where its made. Being made in the Mid-West means little or no shipping cost. Same is true with tractors. In a highly populated agriculture area tractors will be cheaper than they are in say the suburbs of a major city. It all has to do with supply and demand. What I am getting at is do your research but prices in you area are just what they are.

Chris

 

[clemsonfor]

My wife was in a wreck and we got a rental, they did not have our bubble car they were going to rent us so our choice was a smaller bubble or a silverado 2011. We had that thing for like 17 days. The insurance from the other driver only paid enterprise like $25/day unlimited mileage. Go by your local enterprise and see if they have trucks and then make sure there no cars and then rent a car and get upgraded like we did! :laughing::laughing:

Seriously we/insurance got a deal on that thing. Extended cab we put over 1400 miles on it in that time. Had to go out of town twice while we had it. Think they only paid less than $500 for it that time.

Yea im just kidding i know this will never work out.

But if you want to haul it yourself. I would rent a Uhaul with unlimited miles or something. They can usually be had cheap and can tow that 4000lbs easy, but slow. But make sure to get the fine print on these type things as those mileages can add up if you go over them. Id pick up a uhaul in the town near tractor and a trailer from then and drive home and drop tractor then return truck near your home.

 

[clemsonfor]

Thanks Chris,

I think I have a 1 3/4" ball on there now. I use it to tow a small 4x8 utility trailer.

Not to nit pic, but this size dosent exist. At least in this current times.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Not to nit pic, but this size dosent exist. At least in this current times.

Yea, common sizes are:

1 7/8" rated at 2000# for the ball. All I have seen have a 3/4" shank.

2" rated at 3,500# with a 3/4" shank, 5,000# or 7,500# with a 1" shank, and 7,500# with a 1 1/4" shank for the ball.

2 5/16" rated at 6,000# with a 1" shank, and upto 25,000# with a 1 1/4" shank for the ball.

There are others but these are common sizes.

Chris

 

[keegs]

I checked my guide. Realize its only a trailer sales guide and not the bible. Its a guide only but according to the guide for your truck with both the 3.73 and 4.10 gear ratios the tow rating is 1,900# for the 2.8L I4 4x4 with manual tranny. That is about enough to tow the trailer only. No way you are going to tow that tractor. There is a max GCVWR (gross combined vehicle wheel rating) or max of truck/cargo/trailer/load of 6,000#. This is not your tow rating but instead the max weight it can lug down the road total.

I was not implying it was a waste of time to shop around but the fact is there is no way you could tow that load that many miles without taking major life out of your truck...

One other thing I see alot is guys get hung up on tractors or trailer prices in their area. They are what they are. For example I can buy a trailer for 2/3 the cost you guys can on the East Coast. Its a matter of where its made. Being made in the Mid-West means little or no shipping cost. Same is true with tractors. In a highly populated agriculture area tractors will be cheaper than they are in say the suburbs of a major city. It all has to do with supply and demand. What I am getting at is do your research but prices in you area are just what they are.

Chris

Your guide is pretty much on the money Chris. I called the Chevy dealer to get a clarification on the The Gross Combination Weight Rating (GCWR) that I mentioned earlier and the 6k lb rating includes the weight of the truck, me, my passenger, whatever gas is in the gas tank, the lunch pail on the front seat ..etc. etc..

So I guess my original thought...that my vehicle didn't have adequate towing capacity was correct...probably some wishful thinking slipped in there ...

I'm going to get an idea what it would cost to rent an adequately sized rig to do the job and consider it in my calculations.

Thanks again for keeping with me on this.

Cheers... Chris K.

 

[keegs]

Not to nit pic, but this size dosent exist. At least in this current times.

no..you're right ...it's a 1 7/8 " ball on there now.