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do I need to worry?

I weighed my camper today and I'm overweight on my rear axle. Here's the weights
with camper front axle 2620 lb
rear axle 3120 lb
camper 5440 lb
without camper front axle 2660 lb
rear axle 2340 lb
I figure tongue weight at 740lbs and total camper weight at 6180lbs the trailer pulls straight with no sway at 60 mph and the truck sits level
I have 31x 10.5 x 15 destination a/t and 1000# air shocks at 90# of air and factory tow package. should I be concerned?
 






That kind of weight pushes the limits of the v8, which I'm assuming you have because I haven't really seen any v6 Mounties. Its pushing those limits quite hard. 740lb tongue weight is a lot unless you've got a distributing hitch, and then you're on the edge. You want at least a tranny cooler and a tranny temperature gauge so you can keep an eye on whats going on. And I wouldn't tow that for any kind of long distance...
 






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