Suburban towing
 

Hey guys, wondering what you tow with your 1500 burbs, year? Model? Trailer? Trailer weight? Experience?

Your questions are a little vague...

I've towed just about everything, Flat, Box, Camping...

Lots of experience, just remember...
Load low and slightly forward, don't overload (vehicle, tongue or trailer).
Air your tires up just under Max Cold Inflation Pressure. (trailer too)
Brake before corners, not during !
Keep right, and you don't have so much to watch out for.
Obey speed limits, be rational and DON'T overdrive your personal capability.

Oh yea, and don't Post the same question twice :D

Resource Ref:
http://www.hitchinfo.com/index.cfm?e...ntpieceid=5146

I tow a 6x10 trailer to haul wood, a 4 wheeler, furniture, you name it. I also tow a 6x14 tandem axle trailer to haul the 4 wheeler and a SxS.

This was done with my 2007:

I have gone past the 14,000 GCWR once before. I hauled 6,000lbs of shingles on an almost 2,000 lb tandem flatbed/car carrier rated for 5,000 lbs. And then I had all of the other materials in the burb. That was a little while before the air pump died from worn out shocks bladders. That pump ran for a good while leveling the car. The fastest I did was 45 mpg going from lowes to home. But it was up hill from lowes. The last hill temp went from 210 to prob 240~250 by the time i was in the drive way. let it run for over 5 min and it was happy.

Soon I am going to tow my 64 Thunderbird that needs work to FL. It weighs 4500 lbs. Going to be on my 5,000 lbs flat bed/ car carrier.

But spring and fall I tow my 3 boats. An 80's E-scow. Supra Comp (only like 2,000lbs and light trailer). And Correct Craft Martinique. (3300 lbs and decent tandem traier, total = 4500~5000 lbs)

Thanks, didn't see that I posted twice, lol, stupid smart phone ain't that smart ;-)

Any toy haulers?

HA, happens all the time, but...

Do you have a specific question, have you Towed much before ? :)
Sounds like you may be looking for a recommendation on a specific brand Trailer...? If that's so, you're probably going to get as many suggestions as there are users on this forum :D

well I have an 07 2500.

No BS with the air bags/compressor blowing out. I've towed 35 ft twin big block speedboats, 24 ft enclosed trailers with 5k of weight in them, 22 ft vnose enclosed with 4000 lbs of stuff in them through the hills of west virginia, 6000 lb big block tahoe with a 3/4 ton driveline on an 2k open trailer. I've had 30 bundles of 90 lb shingles in the back of it (2700 lbs)

It gets it done with the 6 liter, but last trip with that 22 trying to do 75 on the highway was around 6-7 mpg (for the record that trailer tows like ****, with leaf vs torsion axles, its a buddies trailer and he had a bigger trailer on his 12 2500 duramax denali).

I'm hanging onto this thing until they come out with a diesel or at least a real gas engine (ie. the LSA from my caddy wouldn't be too horrible). My tahoe with a 502 ramjet crate motor got better economy and pulled better than this suburban, just wasn't half as stable and the brakes weren't up to the task.

I'm still trying to figure out how GM rates a 1500 almost as high as a 2500 suburban for towing. The axles, transmission, brakes, suspension, cooling are all substantially bigger between the two.

I've gone way over my 7400 rated capacity (I have 3.73's took it from inventory, 4.10's was 9400) Numerous times......with 103k miles I've only changed the oil and done the brakes at 80k. Hell I only flushed the trans, rear and front diff at 98k, gonna do plugs/wires shortly. All things considered this truck has treated me great with minmal repairs, everything I did I consider maitenence. Guess thats why Im willing to hang onto it and wait for a diesel.

You're right about the variations. My Burb has GTW of 8100 lbs. (it's a K1500)
That 6/7mpg is really not all that bad, considering what your tail weighed. ;)

My Burb, Me and a half tank of Gas = curb weight of just over 6000 lbs :D

Just pulled our jayflight 28bhs 400 mile roundtrip. The trailer weighs 5185 dry and 6775 loaded. Tongue weight of 785 with load leveler. Didn't do too bad in the 2009 1500 LTZ with tow package and P3 brake controller. tranny temps got 220 one time when I forgot to put it in tow/haul mode, after a stop. rolling 65-70 at 2500 rpm got about 9.95 mpgs with lots of idle time. We were overloaded I now know with me the wife our two boys 7-9 and 3 Great Danes in the back plus hitch weight. But handled it well breaked fine and pulled fine. Never have to worry with the other TV(2004 F250 CCSB 4x4)
Next month we will be puting about 5,000 miles pulling the TT to Cali. no dogs and as little as possible in the trailer going to shoot for 6300 lbs loaded.