Sounds like a nice truck. And yes definitely a big upgrade. I did almost the same 15 year jump myself when I bought mine.
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I would have absolutely no concern about it. If you seriously load down your truck with cargo too then maybe adding the bump stops could help with some bad roads and things like that but I wouldn't have any concerns to the truck or legal vehicle limitations. You're well within capacity
Yes that's correct. And I don't believe there would be any way to detect if you had springs because nothing related to the springs themselves would have load sensors.
But with the factory air anything within 2000# or so of tongue weight I wouldn't worry about if you have the factory air...
Yeah I regularly have over 1ton of payload in my truck. I haul the freight for my in laws a lot of the time. They have an Asian store up here and I haul a lot of rice, sauces, and canned goods as well as produce. 20x50#bags of rice plus anything else imaginable is pretty common for me. I load...
I have no idea if it really shows up for the dealer but mine would be flooded with error codes if it were the case. I regularly have thousands of pounds of payload in the truck and limit the air suspensions capabilities. But I've had nothing said to me regarding it.
Somewhere over 1000 or 1500#...
Odd; I got wheel locks from factory for free but they were just in my glovebox as spares. They were never in place of factory lugs. So my key and all my locks are in the glovebox.
I know what you mean I had to climb over my Center console and out the passenger door for almost two weeks when the deer smashed up my door and fender. Not real happy about that
Were you still on factory oil when it blew or are you having hell because you did one change yourself? Possibly with wrong oil?
Any word what the cause was to the failure?
Bought the truck from Canada and imported to the states I think. Took advantage of low Canadian dollar. And bought Used. But yeah factory powertrain should be regardless.
My father in law had just bought a 11' Silverado with 36k from insurance auction that was totalled but it's still under...
Hauling fencing home for a spring/summer project. Was a 2 hour trip got 18 or so pulling the trailer empty with bad crosswinds but hit a 20MPH headwind coming home and it was pretty rough. About 12MPG. But comparing it to a gas truck I won't complain. Pulling empty was same MPG you see in a gas...
I never heard anything about a guy having his truck lowered on him but I go under the front not under the running board. I can fit in normal it just makes it roomy in offroad.
Though that would suck.
Consider running an engine with too much oil can do as much damage as running it with too...
I guess I don't use ramps because I have factory air I just put it in offroad2 and slide underneath on a creeper. But the drain is on the rear of the oil pan so elevation sure as hell isn't going to hold a quart and a half of oil.
And do not put 10-10.5 in regardless. Too much oil ruins...