Does anyone know what the factory rating is for the towing capacity on a 1983 model 2WD short bed base pickup? One of my hobbies is boat building/fishing and the truck pulls my current boat with absolutely no trouble at all. My current boat is kinda small (14ft) and the weight of boat trailer and gear is only about 750lbs at the most, usually only loaded to about 650lbs just depends on what I'm fishing for and how many people will be fishing. Anyway, I'm getting ready to build a larger boat and in deciding on the plans I want to be able to pull it with my toyota on the days when I go alone so I need to know how much I can safely tow in order to decide how large of a boat I can build Thanks, G
I pulled a tow dolly and a 25-2600 lb celica with my truck. With about ~200 in the bed I would definatly not reccomend it because it was all she had to go 65-70. And my Lexxus brakes worked prefect for the front, but the light end of the truck would literally pick up off the ground and and do a little jacknifing in a hard stop. So figure a little less weight then that.
My wife drives a Honda Element and it's rated at 1,500lbs so I'm hoping to be able to go with that number and then it will be fine with both vehicles.
i have a 1983 toyota 2wd long bed and i need to pull a vw bus with it dose anyone think it could work? or have a way to get it to work? or should i find another way?
As long as the truck isn't missing a bunch of power or cylinders, you should be fine. VW busses are pretty light when they're not full of hippies or loaded down with drugs. Hills will slow you down, though.
Should be fine pulling a old vw bus And 1500 pounds would be as far as I would go not because the truck can't pull more but like raffaelli said safety and stopping power specially if your running stock brakes and if its an automatic transmission I wouldn't pull heavy loads
Iv got magazine adds for my 81 diesel and it claims a payload capacity of 1000 lbs. Not sure about bumper pull cap tho. I'll take a look when I get home if you want
Not sure of the weight but I've pulled my fox body home and my brothers type R home and never had a problem pulling them up hills so yea 2000+ pounds?
According to the Japanese brochures they carry 1000kg (2200 pounds). There is a brochure link on the right hand side of the page. Japanese all generations brochures
i have the sticker inside my glove box on my 79 it will get you in the ballpark of what yours will do i will go get the info when it stops raining [i need to go put my glove box lid stop on anyway]