mountainfarmer
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Hi all,
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I just bought another GMT400 (1993 GMC Sierra K3500) truck for our farm, which brings me up to 3 now.
I have a 94 Chevy C3500 dually with a pickup truck bed that has an NV3500 rated at 9k to 10k GVWR as a Class 2 truck. Naturally I expected this new 93 K3500 to have a similar GVWR and class.
However, I looked up the VIN on my new truck on NHTSA and it's showing as a Class 3 truck that left the factory as a cab-chassis. It shows the GVWR on this new truck as 10,001 to 14,000, the vin also shows this truck as equipped with an NV4500 which explains why this new truck drives more like a bus whereas my other dually with an NV3500 drives with more pep.
Do I somehow have a K3500HD? I didn't think those existed, however I know very little about the HD models of the 2500/3500 other than they had higher GVWR with beefier trans.
Any help here would be appreciated as I'm very curious. Either way, somehow the GVWR is 3k to 5k more than I expected when I bought it.
Forum said if I didn't know where to stick a topic to put it here. Feel free to move wherever it should go.
I just bought another GMT400 (1993 GMC Sierra K3500) truck for our farm, which brings me up to 3 now.
I have a 94 Chevy C3500 dually with a pickup truck bed that has an NV3500 rated at 9k to 10k GVWR as a Class 2 truck. Naturally I expected this new 93 K3500 to have a similar GVWR and class.
However, I looked up the VIN on my new truck on NHTSA and it's showing as a Class 3 truck that left the factory as a cab-chassis. It shows the GVWR on this new truck as 10,001 to 14,000, the vin also shows this truck as equipped with an NV4500 which explains why this new truck drives more like a bus whereas my other dually with an NV3500 drives with more pep.
Do I somehow have a K3500HD? I didn't think those existed, however I know very little about the HD models of the 2500/3500 other than they had higher GVWR with beefier trans.
Any help here would be appreciated as I'm very curious. Either way, somehow the GVWR is 3k to 5k more than I expected when I bought it.