what is my gcwr

[ajpmotorsports]

i have a 1993 ford f250
7.3 diesel no turbo
auto trans
3.55 rear gear
4 wheel drive
8800 gvwr
can anybody tell me the maximum trailer weight

[SmokeyWren]

If it were a '94 PowerStroke, then your GCWR would be 16,000 pounds.

I don't have anything on the IDI engines, but they were less powerful than the PowerStrokes, so they probably had less GCWR.

GCWR is not really a weight limit the way GVWR and GAWR are limits. The GCWR just indicates the max weight you can gross when you want to tow a trailer over a steep mountain pass, without being a rolling roadblock to other traffic, and without overheating your engine or tranny or rear end.

For your truck, I'd guess the max trailer weight you'd want to tie onto is around 10,000 pounds when your route will not include climbing any steep mountain passes. But if you plan to climb mountain passes, then I'd limit the gross trailer weight to around 8,000 pounds, or maybe less, until you have experience with the truck so you know what it can do.

But please don't emulate the hippies of the late 1960s and 1970s, climbing mountain passes at 10 MPH in underpowered overloaded clapped-out vehicles.

[ajpmotorsports]

here is the update
old trailer 24 foot tag with wd hitch, went over scales at 17700 total weight (truck and trailer). towed all the way to nashville tn, there are grades in kentucky and tn.
traded in old trailer for new 40 foot gooseneck, moved all equipment and car over to new trailer in parking lot at tn state fairgrounds. towed all the way back home to detroit mi. havn't weighed new trailer combo yet. but i can say the goose neck towed better than the tag, fuel milage even went up. used to tow at 70-75, but know i tow at 60-65 can go 70-75 but dont want push truck that hard till i get weighed, the curb weight of the new trailer is supposed to be 3500 pounds heavier than the tag, the gooseneck is also 1.5 feet taller.
i do plan on makin it a dually in the winter for protection against rolling over with a flat on th truck

[88beast]

i have a 1993 ford f250
7.3 diesel no turbo
auto trans
3.55 rear gear
4 wheel drive
8800 gvwr
can anybody tell me the maximum trailer weight

well there is a few ways to look at this
one front axle is rated 3800 (ttb)
rear axle is rated 6100 (rough figures)
your truck weighs 6-7k well say 6500
so you probably have 3000 front and 3500 rear
so thatll allow you 2600 lbs in bed (hitch weight 20%)
so id say a gn or fver would be in the 13000 range which is done by rvers a lot
but to be comfortable on grades id stay in the 10000 area or even 8k with your 3.55 gears

but your gcvwr is somewhere in the 14k area which is useless in towing anything because this is what ford says it will tow and stop in any conditions and do it safely but if you have trailer brakes, you can add 3k per set of brakes as a saftey margin ex: trailer is 13k but your gcvwr is 14k and your truck weighs 6k that means your rig would be 19k total
but if it has 2 sets of axle brakes then you can add 6k to your gcvwr in effect to get 20k safely towed

but the difference between your truck and an f350 drw is just rear suspension and a gear change so if you go to drw your 3.55 gear will not work youll need a new front so you may as well get the dana 60 which is 200lbs more axle rating but you will never go over the ttb's weight unless you add a huge bumper up front

to sum up
8-10k on large grades 13k on flatland and use trailer brakes at all times