Does anyone know the towing capacity

of a 92 Suzuki carry?? thinking of attaching small hitch??

 

Never seen anything written on towing capacity from any of the manufactures, never seen any pictures from Japan showing a mini pulling a trailer. The makers never beefed up the back end to install a hitch. They never intended the trucks to pull anything. I did pull a heavy duty 80" x 14' trailer, tandem axle with 10 bales of hay and 8 kids with a early 90's Suzuki. It was absolutely to much for truck. The trailer itself was to much. I think MichTrucks is close, 1200 lbs max. (trailer + load)
when you hear someone say 1500 lbs load cap. in bed, they are blowing smoke up your skirt. A standard 1990's truck bed capacity. is 700/800 lbs. Not sure about the newer trucks.

 

Thanks for the info Steven, I use my 92 carry for my gardening business, I've customized
a rack that carries all my equipment, but what I'd like to beable to do is tow a small ATV
trailer with a garden tractor???

Cheers!
Renee

 

A good rule of thumb is if the loaded trailer is heaver than your towing vehicle, it need brakes of its own. Would you trust your brakes to handle twice its rated capacity?

Robert

 

Thanks for this Robert...I'll be under the weight of the truck with the lawn tractor &
trailer..

Renee

 

suzuki carry

1202 lbs scale weights that the load i have had on

 

I have towed an empty 10' utility trailer (like lawn maintenance types use) around our little ranch a bit and the Carry did fine with it. Forgot what the trailer weighs.

 

I pulled my 18' lowboy with a 4'x6' deer stand and 3000 # of corn this passed weekend.It did fine.I put a hitch on it a few weeks ago.It works great.If you would like some pictures of the hitch let me know.

 

Yes please

I for one would like very much to see your hitch design, would like to build a hitch for my 93 "Crunchy Frog" (carry )

z

 

Jclee;

I too would like to see the hitch design.
Thanks

 

Did someone say something about the trailer being bigger and weighing more than the tow vehicle?
I did not have a mini truck back then--I do now so guess I need a bigger trailer.
Actually this was the trailer I used to transport my truck.
A good addage would be; if your truck fits on the trailer--the truck should not pull the trailer. Loaded anyway.
I do have the perfect mini truck trailer. Dual axle atv tires, brakes and tilt bed. I will post a picture when it is painted up to match my Suki.

 

hitch

I took a old hitch that came off a old CMC truck and cut it to fit between the rear spring hangers,then I put a piece of 1 1/4" x1/4" flat bar above it and welded it to the round tubing that is between the frame rails and welded it all out.The trailer that is hooked to my truck is 6' x10' and the tracktor weights over 1300# and it pulls it great and stops well.I got a 4" drop hitch and it places the ball base at 17".You have to redo the gas tank hanger.I sat the gas tank on 2 jack stands to hold the while I fit the hitch on then cut off the gas tank holder to fit it to weld to the hitch.It was very eazy and took about 2 1/2 hours.

 

Thanks jclee, now I'm off to find myself an old hitch

z

 

Here is my rear bumper,

I used 3/8" plate cut in an L shape for the hanger. I cut a hole out for the fram e support, and fastened to the truck with Tek screws. I then welded around the frame round support (not shown in this pic)


For the rear bumper, I used a piece of C5 (C4-C6 would all work equally well). I cut a hole out in the center to put the receiver through (purchased from princess auto, about $9.99 on sale). The pin for the receiver actually gets inserted behind the bumper, to leave the front as clean as possible, and to stop the hitch from sticking out too much from the truck. I made tabs out of 1/4" plate to fasten the bumper to the hanger with bolts. Due to the fact that my dimensional requirements were pretty loose, I was able to get a deal on all the odds and ends of steel at a steel supplier, and the whole bumper cost me about $55 including the receiver.




This serves two purposes on my carry, one as a hitch, and the other as bumper to protect the gas tank from hitting anything (particularly the trailer hitch when I'm backing up to hook it up : ) )


I'm hoping someone is going to post some detailed dimensions of front receiver, before I get time to fab one : )

 

I too am a professor in deer huntersing I really need a squirrel BBQ so I can becomes a professors in squirrelsing....wtf lol trolls:sly:

 

great....without the prior trolling post I look like a lunatic oh well

 

I would not go so far as to jump to that conclusion.

 

I still need the squirrel BBQ

 

I believe my cousin still has that bbq you are looking for. Only, you would have to find your way to his moonshine still to use it.

 

I am now a professor

 

fupabox, just for you--warning, you asked for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYuimRJQ-vY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvx2IY5PuE8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3IYQX6oUM&feature=related

op:

 

one more for you--this looks like some real good eats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDtAzW6op8M&feature=related

 

damn my work has youtube blocked tonight grrrr

 

Ah yes cooking squirrel..sweet..if ya havn't had it you don't know what you are missing...like rabbit....one of my favorite all time sayings comes from a squirrel cooking accident(honestly)........years ago while camping/hunting,a buddy retrieved a couple squirrels we had shot,skinned and dressed earlier(no we didn't put little shirts and pants on them)they were frozen solid and he was swinging them by his side as I stepped out from behind my truck he happened to nail me with the swinging bag right in my jibbly bits...knocked me near unconcious (I actually threw up it was so bad ) hence the saying "more painful than a whack in the nuts with a frozen squirrel"

 

That right there is funny!!!!.... and I think I have found my new saying, if you don't care if I steal it