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Posted by: Doghouse Oct 14 2015, 02:16 PM

Hello Everyone. I'm new to forums and truck campers. So please excuse me if I do this incorrectly.
I just purchased a used palomino maverick 6601. It took me two years to convince my wife, but now she loves it. We have used it twice so far and hauled it roughly 500 miles or so.
Problem now is I am pretty sure I am over weight by about 400 to 600 lbs or so. Now she is ticked! She said....."I thought you knew what you were doing!?!"

My truck showed 5,980 on the cat scales and the weight of the dry camper will add 1,771. Putting me at 7,751 lbs. And I still need to get my wife and two small kids in there. So that'll be another 200 lbs. GVWR sticker says 7,200 lbs.

My question is how bad is this for my truck? It is a company truck, so I really don't want to tear it up.

Good for a little while? Sell the camper(like she says)? Get a personal truck with higher payload capacity(pretty sure she won't go for that)?

How bad am I in the doghouse?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: 17 Oaks Oct 15 2015, 10:14 AM

The mauf have a set of parameters they build to. While I do not know what they are I do not according to my sources the HiPerf engines installed in the Corvettes are built to at 10% RPM over wind. This is to insure the engine is alive and well inside the very good warranty on the engines. You can only imagine if the engine would self destruct at 5600 rpm with a 5500 rpm redline.

Knowing that I would guess for warranty and safety 10% is a good number to work with. Take your gross x 10% and you should be inside the safety envelope...I do not know that to be a fact, but lawyers would have a field day with catastrophic results if the outer limit was as posted on the door sill.

In the case of weight I would guess its more than 10%.

Posted by: Doghouse Oct 16 2015, 07:08 PM

Thanks for the reply. Loaded up the truck and camper and took them to a cat scale today. 960 lbs over. Went right home and unloaded camper and started looking for a new truck. I'm not gonna put myself or anyone else at risk driving that around. Thanks again for the reply!

Posted by: Bill/Ginny Apr 5 2016, 10:57 PM

Hello Everyone. I'm new to forums and truck campers. So please excuse me if I do this incorrectly.
I just purchased a used palomino maverick 6601. It took me two years to convince my wife, but now she loves it. We have used it twice so far and hauled it roughly 500 miles or so.
Problem now is I am pretty sure I am over weight by about 400 to 600 lbs or so. Now she is ticked! She said....."I thought you knew what you were doing!?!"

My truck showed 5,980 on the cat scales and the weight of the dry camper will add 1,771. Putting me at 7,751 lbs. And I still need to get my wife and two small kids in there. So that'll be another 200 lbs. GVWR sticker says 7,200 lbs.

My question is how bad is this for my truck? It is a company truck, so I really don't want to tear it up.

Good for a little while? Sell the camper(like she says)? Get a personal truck with higher payload capacity(pretty sure she won't go for that)?

How bad am I in the doghouse?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Doghouse Jun 2 2016, 08:32 PM

You are not in the doghouse if she likes the camper. Shop for your own truck so you can make it your own.