I have an 07 Class A 35ft with Ford Motor and the V-10 and am wondering how long and how much trailer I can tow? If anyone out there has any suggestions on length I would appreciate it. I am looking at 24' trailers and want to be sure it's doable. I would like to have some input on real world experience with what you are pulling. Also if you have any photo's of your gasser pulling an enclosed trailer post them up...

65ft is longest you can go, so the 24ft with tounge should keep you under legal length. You should have a plate with the weights on it, that will tell you how much total weight you can tow...

i had a 36 foot southwind with a v-10 and puled a 28 foot sport trailer loaded with full size buggy 4 full size quads tools gear 60 gal fuel 60 gal of water with no prob. ony mod to the coach was a banks power pack and beefed up hitch , actually pulled harder than my diesel pusher

Legally, your moho is probably rated to tow 5k lbs. A 24' trailer will weigh 3-4k lbs. empty.

Can your moho tow more... sure. I see gassers towing 10k pounds all the time.

just keep in mind the liability factor if you decide to tow over the rating of your moho, if something happens, it more than likely gonna be your fault, and insurance wont cover it due to negligence. If someone gets hurt, good luck paying their hospital bills.

27 foot jayco v-10 with a 24' enclosed (plus 5' of tongue) ... does pretty good, but it is slow up the hills unless you keep it pinned.
towing 2200lb buggy, 250lb quad, 55 gallons of water, tool box, air compressor, and 30 gallons of fuel.

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I have a 35ft gasser with a 460 in it. I tow my 24ft loaded with buggy, fuel, water etc. pulls great but I would put a full exhaust system on it. Makes a huge difference. I can get the Gibson, I put it on my coach and a new MOHO for sure. Without the exhaust it struggled. I even hook my 32ft with 2 buggy's on it for one trip. Way to heavy never again on that trailer. 24ft all day long.

I could be dead wrong on this and I'm not saying that it is ok to pull overweight but the argument that insurance will not pay I believe to be false. I had an uncle who was drunk and hit another driver and seriously injured the person. He figured he would lose his house and everything he owned but "INSURANCE PAID." I also know a guy who was driving well over 100mph and totaled his sports car and his "INSURANCE PAID." why would towing overweight be any different? Like I said I may be wrong but I would still bet they will pay. It's not my intention to be overweight that's shy I want to have the largest possible trailer and still be safe...

24' trailer would be in the legal length limit, but as far as weight your coach prolly rated to tow 5000 lbs 500 lb tongue

your motor and trans should handle more than 5000 lbs but your receiver will fail after awhile so just change
it to 10,000lbs. i was very lucky after towing for 3 years. we noticed my trailer was saggoing in the front and after a buddy took a look at it, we saw that it was starting to separate. had it upgraded.

so upgrade the hitch.

I have a 34 foot class A v10 I tow a 24 foot enclosed loaded with lt buggy and 2 full sized quads.
I upgraded to 10k hitch and no problems a little slow on hills but fine in the flats.

Check under the rear of moho, most likley there will be some frame extensions which the hitch attaches to. if you tow a 24' enclosed fully loaded these will most likley bend down unless they are beefed up. I saw 2 accidents on consecutive trips with moho / trlrs going off the road, not pretty. After reading a thread on this board about somebody towing a WW trailer overweight and having an accident which someone unfortunately lost their life, which resulted in jail / prison, I decided to spend the extra $$ on a diesel to be legal. It is not always about being insured or not. The vehicles are weight limited by trannies, and most importantly brakes...

Yes, insurance will pay, up to your limits. The case people are referring to where the guy lost his home was simply a case of being under insured. His insurance paid to his 300K policy limit, and he was liable for the rest of the judgement. Check your policy limits and also get an umbrella policy. You'd be surprised how cheap a 2 million dollar umbrella policy is.

pulled 28 fter with buggy and cart no problem v-10 got nuts..

I second the keepin an eye on the frame extensions. The irist motorhome I had they failed and caused some problems.

I currently have a fleetwood and they only welded the vertical part of it along with a fish plate over it and none of the horizontal parts of the channel frame have any weld on it. I brought this up when it was in for its first warranty trip and they said was built to spec. Told them I tow a big heavy wakeboard boat over 4k and no weight distrubiton hitch and if it breaks they would get a invitation to court. Was kind of a rock and hard place while in warranty, now I guess I shoudl just to it.

So reinforce it or keep an eye on it... alot of things go out of wack if it starts to sag.

This pic says it all. You MUST MUST MUST go under the rear and have it reinforced. The frame is used for different size MH and when your size was built the just stabed C channel form the end of the frame to the end of the coach. This is why diesel pushers have alot greater load cap. due to the frame going all the way to the end of the coach for the motor.

Now this is the info I have been looking for. This makes complete sense to me. Thanks Bohica

i have the same problem with my 32' bounder,towing a 28' enclosed...pulls it no problem on the flat,slow REAL SLOW up hills. dont usually try to push it to hard up the hills..but my frame rails bent just the the pics above...anyone know who does the frame strengthening??? im in whittier area...thx

I have a 38' Class A with the new V-10. The maximum rating is 5k according to the manufacturer and the hitch. I tow a 16' enclosed Haulmark with a buggy and dirt bike and gas, etc. and it tows pretty well. I think I'm probably just about at the max towing capacity tho.