I hauled my 95 Grand am when I bought it on Ebay in 2005 with my old 98 Blazer. I picked it up 20 miles east of Oklahoma City and made it all the way home to Houston, Tx. And that with a stuck brake caliper on the front. It froze the day I was leaving so didn't have time to change it. I went through a pair of brake pads until I got home. But it was fine. Thank god for flat freeways (generally)
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with my '92 T15, 5 spd Jimmy;
-a '88, extended wheel base, 1 ton Chevy cargo van that weighed in @ 13,838 lbs on the scale @ the wreckers. boy did he freak when he saw those #'s!
-the stretch'd Dime my brother & i built for a friend. the Summer we were building it, i towed it all over southern Ontario to probably 6 or 7 car/truck shows, plus one in Battle Creek, MI in September. i'll look in my bucket for pic's of said stretch on my trailer (the truck was 5 inches longer than my total trailer length!)
-my brother's custom made 4' x 8' utility trailer (his design/plan/build for his grade 12 shop project) that wighed in @ 2147 kgs (a little over 4700 lbs.) it had 4 foot side on it @ the time.
-and countless other stupid things!

i say "countless other stupid things!" because i was replacing the rear gears every year, since the heavy loads i inflicted on my Jimmy would just destroy the pinion bearing. it was either that or the 7 grand shifts that broke pinion/ring gear teeth.

and that's why i now restrict my '98 to no more than my brother's Summer Dime (as it was going between the air brusher's shop & the paint (body) shop this past Feb/March) or any other mid-size car/truck. or the odd trip to the dump/building recycler's.

if it requires a HD tow vehicle (and it's during the Summer months), then my 'Burb gets the towing duties (which is part of the reason i got her).

oh yeah, cage47, you really need to resize that pic of yours-it's coming up 2 screens wide for my 21" monitor!

 

My latest towing experience was with my new camper:

2003 Starcraft Travelstar 19CK


Details:

• Dry weight is 2495# with 346# on the tongue.
• GVWR of the trailer is 4990# which we should not even approach even with all of our stuff.
• 2500# rating on each axle.
• Electric brakes on all four wheels.

Observations:

 

nice looking trailer Kyle.

 

Thanks Chris! Just getting back to this thread to report on my latest trip with the camper. Went down to Watkins Glen on July 9th and came back home on July 16th. I don't know what it weighed fully loaded on the trip down, but it weighed in at 9400lbs with me and the family in it on my dad's scale (60' certified) on the return trip. That was without 35 gallons of water, no firewood, and next to no food/ice which all added up to about another 600lbs.

The Rainier handled it very well. It wasn't that far of a drive (~40 miles one way), but it still towed very well even in the hills. I was able to maintain 55-60mph just about everywhere and the Tekonsha P3 brake controller worked GREAT!

Here it is all hooked up and ready to go:


And then setup at the Watkins Glen State Park:

 

My 01 I've pulled a few basic utility trailers with junk in them.

Also hauled a 95 Dakota regular cab, long box, v6, right after a blizzard that dropped 11'' the whole route from Cedar Rapids IA to Green Bay WI. Roughly 400 miles. Kept it in 3rd the whole way, doing between 55-65mph. Pulled it fine, stopped it fine, no overheating. Check engine light came on about 10 min after starting but went off the next day after unloading the truck. Two and a half tanks of gas.

BTW, nice camper Kyle. Perfect size.

 

I towed my 21 foot Searay Laguna seaboat around for years with my Blazer untill I got my F-150.

The Blazer is a 88' S-10 with a 2.8.

Went through 1 transmission but the engine is still running and the truck did a great job.

 

I towed an open trailer with my '94 Jimmy. It's a pretty much stock vin W truck with 3.42 gears, class 3 reese hitch. The rear was of the truck was sagging a little at the time so the with the weight of the trailer loaded with furniture it was probably too low to the ground. The trailer itself was a fairly large single axle open trailer, just barely too small that it wouldn't fit a car on it. It didn't have brakes.

Power wise, the jimmy moved it down the road fine, but it probably could have been better. Had to keep it out of overdrive, even when empty. It just wanted to keep shifting in and out of overdrive. It would definitly do better if it had more power, or if it had better gearing.

 

The largest trailor I have hauled behind my 2000 blazer was a flat bed tandem tripple axle with a 6 meter deck it was a heavy duty trailor from work with a double chassis it probably weighed in at 1 1/2 ton and on that I had 5 size 9 bales of silage hay each one weighed approx 750kgs.

The blazer still cranked along at 100kph not a prob only had to travel about 60kms with that one though

 

Went on my first tow voyage with the bravada today. towed my new project home. 02 cavalier ls sport. about a 55 mile trip. not a single problem towing the car. lots of back roads which it handled great.