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Old 06-30-2005, 12:02 AM
muddywater muddywater is offline
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Default 20 SF Weight and Minimum required tow vehicle

Search didn't come up with anything for wet weight of a 20 SF. Anybody ever weigh theirs fully loaded? I'm trying to figure out what the minimum tow vehicle I could get away with is. I have a 5.3L V-8 4x4 at the moment but gas is killing me and it is just going to keep going up so I want to downgrade.

Hull dry weight spec is 1600 lbs.
40 gal of gas @ 7# per gal (rounded up) is 280#
assuming a heavy 4-stroke 150, 25-in. shaft 485#
trailer weight - I have no idea -mine is pretty hard to pick up by myself, so lets say 500#
Lets say 30 gal. of water sloshing around in the bilge just because (or you could say it was in the live well) @ 8.3 lbs per gal = 249 lbs
batteries hmm say 100#
and say about 200# more gear assuming no T-Top

That is 3414#

Anybody out there crazy enough to have tried towing a 20 SF with something like a Tacoma 4-cylinder rated at 3500# for short distances? The V-6's don't seem (in the real world) to get any better gas milage than my V-8 [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Thanks
-Muddy
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