Hey guys, I'm thinking of jumping ship from my current Ford F350 SRW 6.7 to a Ram Mega Cab SRW 6.7 due to to a bigger family, the additional 900 lbs of GVWR it has, and the bigger 5th wheel I'm wanting. One thing I can't find anywhere on Ram's webpage is a decent spec list with measurements and weights. I see a downloadable one in Adobe format but it's dated 2012. Are the weights listed there still current? What I'm looking to find is an approximate curb weight for a new Laramie 6.7 Mega SRW so that I know if it will handle the pin weight of 5ver I'm looking at. If not, I'll be moving up to a DRW but would rather a SRW. I know the GVWR is 12.4 on this configuration, but without a wet weight to subtract from that, I don't have a real payload number. Can anyone help here? Don't want to beg the dealer to drag one to a scale... LOL. Thanks in advance!

 

Their website has a towing calculator. http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/towing_g...ion=heavy_duty

What is SRW and DRW? Single vs dually?

This is a 2014 towing spec sheet from the ram site.... http://www.ramtrucks.com/assets/towi...wing.Specs.pdf

 

SRW is single rear wheel. DRW is dual rear wheel. Unfortunately, those two links don't provide any real info. The only way to know real payload capacity is to subtract your actual wet and loaded weight from the GVWR. Manufacturer's listed payload is a joke used for marketing. It is based on a base model truck with no options, one 150 lb driver, and a quarter tank of fuel. That's why I was hoping someone here had actually weighed their truck like most RVers do.

 

Somebody on the forums showed me the best tool out there with the best info is rambodybuilder.com It has every spec and weight limit for every year. Works best when opened in IE not Chrome.

 

Thanks! That's a great site with 99% of what I needed. Now I have my real payload. Just need to actually weigh the rear axle or find someone who has to find pin weight capacity. For example, since pin weight is entirely on the rear axle, even if the truck has 4k of payload, if the rear axle already is weighing in at 3500, then being a 7k axle, it can only handle 3500 in pin weight. If I didn't have to drive the truck every day, I'd just get a DRW and not worry about all this....