towing with a Yukon 2500
 

Are any of you guys towing with a yukon 2500 6.0? If so what are your thoughts?

What year/era are you talking about?

Do a search on "Suburban 2500" and "Avalanche 2500" for tips on how to make it a more stable towing platform.

Also, Russ aka thp500s had a 2500 'burb with the 6.0L. He towed his 312 Formula with it. He'll have some relevant input.

I had the 2500 Burb with 3.73 gears and the 6.0 motor. With the Formula 312 (8,100 boat, aluminum trailer) it did fine but was all I wanted to pull. If a tractor trailer blew by me it would sway the boat a little, slow to start at lights but stopped OK.
Then I bought a Formula 382 (10,500 boat, aluminum trailer).......30-50 miles tows were a white knuckle ride. Tractor trailers moved me all over the place and stopping was a well pre-planned affair. I would literally get to the ramp and have to calm down before putting the boat in the water......6 weeks later I bought a PSD dually.

Chris: The Yukon 2500 with the 6.0 is rated to pull about 10,000 lbs and that is a good number. If you boat is more than that a 3/4 or 1 ton pickup is needed. What size boat do you have? I pull my Chris Cat fine with my 2004 Avalanche 2500 and its 8.1 liter motor- rated to pull 12k. Nobody makes an SUV that can pull over 10k anymore.

t500hps: A 382 is a heavy boat pushing at least 11k plus trailer. My guess is you were at over 13k with that set up. Formula builds stout boats.

Wannabe

towing a 28 saber. my 1/2 ton does fine, but i want more truck. the yukon is sold too... oh well there are cars, trucks, ans suv's sold, bought and traded every day - and there is probably a nicer one to be found.

Any 3/4 ton, gas or diesel, will tow your boat. I recommend diesel but that's just me. Like Sydwayz says, get more truck than you need.

yep...re-read. 10,500 dry. The boat/trailer crossed the scales with full fuel at over 15,000!!!!
FYI: My burb was rated at 8,600, upgrade to the 4:10 gears it went to 9,600, with the 8.1 and 4:10 gears it went up to 12,000. I figured I had the same axles, hubs, brakes, etc that the 12K version had, the only thing I was lacking was TQ and gear to get the load moving....I could at least STOP it as well as the other versions! That 382 was just waaaay too much!

My 382 with gas, water, gen, A/C, and a steel trailer with E/H brakes weights 16100# according to the CAT scale at the local truck stop. I am pretty comfortable at 60 MPH with an PS F350 DRW. I have towed it with an F250 but do not recommend it. The main reason I like the big truck is that I lost my trailer brakes twice, and was really glad I had the one ton. Eventually you will lose your trailer brakes too. When it happens you will wish you had a bigger truck. BTW it wasn't the brakes that started the failure. Once it was a mechanic that didn't tighten a brake caliber, the other time a wheel bearing failed (same mechanic). The point is a lot can happen. An F450 wouldn't be a bad thing. The nice thing about the Fords is that they do not look like commercial trucks like the trucks from Govt Motors do. I was told by a commercial tower that the DMV picks on the commercial guys more than private haulers

Its ok i just sold mine the tans went out a few times