Truck needs a diet

dogcar3 · Post by **dogcar3** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:04 pm

Just weighed in on a scale at 8270lbs in my daily load out. No wonder my gas mileage sucks.

TwinStick · Post by **TwinStick** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:31 pm

What do you have in it ?

Post by **myoung84** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:36 pm

Damn. I thought mine at 7600 lbs was bad.

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dogcar3 · Post by **dogcar3** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:42 pm

Tools. Recovery stuff. Winter stuff. Guess it all just adds up. Plus front and rear steel bumpers and sliders. And a winch in the rear. I knew I weighed a lot but I was thinking 7800 (without me) or so. Wishful thinking.

That weight was with a 195lb me in it as well. So I guess my guess was not too far off.

whitey · Post by **whitey** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:46 am

I will be weighing mine this week but last I weighed mine it was 8600lbs before multiple mods.

verdesardog · Post by **verdesardog** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:32 pm

WOW! you guy's trucks do need to go on a diet. My Cummins weighs 8420#. Thats with a winch on the front and loads of tools and recovery gear plus extra 5 gal of fuel and 5 gal water. 4900# front 3640# rear....

So who says diesels weigh too much to go off road?

Fireman78 · Post by **Fireman78** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:40 pm

You could haul around fifty million helium balloons and these trucks would still have shitty gas mileage.

dogcar3 · Post by **dogcar3** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:06 pm

Can't forget the dual battery, crane and headache rack. All adds weight.

Post by **Cactus Red** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:48 pm

Damn, that makes me a light weight at 8K even! Still get 12+ MPG on 35's since I went to the Toyo AT2's.

whitey · Post by **whitey** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:25 am

So I weighed in on a brand new digital scale yesterday at 8200lbs. That suggests either the previous 2 scales where wrong or this one is wrong. My truck should be up around 8900lbs by now. My wifes 02 wrangler is heavily modified and weighed in at 4700lbs today and sounds about right. I will be taking my M923A2 on it next. according to stats it should be 21500lbs.

cruz · Post by **cruz** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:11 pm

Fireman78 wrote:You could haul around fifty million helium balloons and these trucks would still have shitty gas mileage.

06wagon · Post by **06wagon** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:53 am

06, quad cab, G56.... No winch, skid plates, muffler, tailgate, back bumper, back seat, and only 5 gals of gas in it..... 6250 with me in it.

vanished · Post by **vanished** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:45 pm

Thinking we should be about 6500 bone stock (1990 payload and 8510 gvwr)... I'm prob pushing 6800+ here.

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06wagon · Post by **06wagon** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:26 pm

The only way a quad cab is 6500 lbs is maybe dry weight.... No fluids, fuel, etc...

TwinStick · Post by **TwinStick** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:12 am

I prob got 15 lbs of Fluid Film on mine now !

Kemp_ · Post by **Kemp_** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:44 am

I can get mine down to 7160 for a DITY move. No spare tire or jack, gas light on, completely empty. 06 quadcab with the G56. I've never tried removing the winch. Loaded up day to day I'm around 7800-8000.

vanished · Post by **vanished** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:27 am

06wagon wrote:The only way a quad cab is 6500 lbs is maybe dry weight.... No fluids, fuel, etc...

Not sure - but my door sticker shows 1977 lbs.. And gvwr is 8510 - and yes I'm a quad cab..

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