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Cargo Master
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From: South Dakota
You don't say if 2 or 4 wheel drive or what engine and transmission you have. The 1988 single cab long bed in my signature would weigh in right at 4500 lbs. if i took everything but the spare tire out of it.
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: May 2005
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From: Puyallup, WA
It varies with the amount of equipment that your paticular truck is equipped with. Without weighing your paticular truck, all anyone on here can give you is a "right around" tare weight.
Big things like 4wd make a fairly substanial difference, but smaller items like power door locks increase the tare weight as well.
My old 86 F150 Super Cab 302/AOD 4wd XL with convience package weighed in very close to the 5000 lb mark. My 1990 F250 regular cab 460/E4OD 2wd Lariet is closer to the 4800 range.
David
Big things like 4wd make a fairly substanial difference, but smaller items like power door locks increase the tare weight as well.
My old 86 F150 Super Cab 302/AOD 4wd XL with convience package weighed in very close to the 5000 lb mark. My 1990 F250 regular cab 460/E4OD 2wd Lariet is closer to the 4800 range.
David
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From: Freehold
Something doesnt add up there, no way a ranger can weigh that much.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: Imperial, MO
That will be the GVWR, not the actual unloaded weight of the truck.
Last time I weighed my '95 5.0L F150 4x4, it was just over 5200 lbs, but it's lifted, has a toolbox full of tools, a spare tire in the bed, and a really heavy front winch/bumper.
-Rod
Last time I weighed my '95 5.0L F150 4x4, it was just over 5200 lbs, but it's lifted, has a toolbox full of tools, a spare tire in the bed, and a really heavy front winch/bumper.
-Rod
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From: CASA GRANDE AZ
well that's what I said to scale operator , towed a 87 F350 with a flat bed (10') no engine or tranny and it weighed right at 5000 lbs , got paid $500 for it ! who knows if the scales were calibrated or not ??
