smokeywren

They lie. The tow rating is based on the GCWR minus the shipping weight of the truck with absolutely nothing in the truck but a skinny driver. But GCWR is not your limiter. Your EcoBoost engine has plenty of power and torque to PULL 8,000 pounds, but the suspension, tires, and brakes do not have the payload capacity to HAUL the wet and loaded hitch weight of an 8,000-pound trailer without being overloaded. As others have noted, payload capacity available for hitch weight is your limiter. IOW, GVWR minus the weight of the wet and loaded tow vehicle (TV) gives you payload capacity available for hitch weight.


Load the truck with everybody and everything that will be in it when towing - including the weight-distributing hitch. Drive to a truck stop that has a CAT scale, fill up with gas, and then weigh the wet and loaded TV. Subtract the weight of the TV from the GVWR of the TV and the answer is the max hitch weight you can tow without bring overloaded. Divide that max hitch weight by 0.13 and the answer is the max GVWR of any trailer you want to consider.


Only if you have additional payload capacity to tow a heavier trailer. But you don't have the payload capacity to tow a long enough trailer to get you into trouble.


That Micro Minnie Winnie with dry weight of 4,000 pounds will probably have GVWR over 5,000 pounds. That's the most trailer you can probably tow without exceeding the payload capacity of your TV. I was dismayed that Winnebago did not include the GVWR or at least the GAWR of that trailer in the brochure specs for that trailer. But they didn't that I can find.
http://winnebagoind.com/binaries/con...e-jan16_v2.pdf

SixShooter14

I think the one he's looking at is the 1700BH
has a DRY weight of 3k# and GVWR of 3800#