Adding Weight to Bed for Road Trip
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Did a search but didn't find much. While there are plenty of discussions for adding winter weight, how about adding some weight for a road trip for an empty bed. I need to make a 10-day 6,000-mile road trip and it looks like I may be taking the 350. My old truck had a 100-gallon aux tank in the bed, so I had extra weight. The 350 is empty so I was thinking on dropping 400-500 pounds in the bed over the rear axle to help smooth it out a bit as some Interstates/Highways are not in the best shape these days. For anyone that does this type of thing, how much weight do you use?
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Well, I survived the trip. 11 days and right at 5,500 miles. The overall ride was OK, not great, but OK. Mom's hip was giving her issues and the massaging seats helped a bit. No issues with the truck so that was good. The fuel milage lie-o-meter shows an average of 17 MPG. Most of the trip was driven at 75-80 MPH. RPM at 80 was around 1900. I changed the oil before I left and reset the oil life meter. Changed the oil again last night and it showed I had 45% oil life remaining. Filled up the tank today and 36 gallons was 260.00 here. The cheapest fuel I found on the trip was down in the Dallas area at 5.15 a gallon. Had some rain here and there but overall nice weather for traveling. I guess the highlight of the Dallas stop was at Buc-ee's as my aunt insisted on us going there. For Des Moines it was Bravo Italian Kitchen, rather good food. The rest was funerals and various grave site visits.
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Well, I survived the trip. 11 days and right at 5,500 miles. The overall ride was OK, not great, but OK. Mom's hip was giving her issues and the massaging seats helped a bit. No issues with the truck so that was good. The fuel milage lie-o-meter shows an average of 17 MPG. Most of the trip was driven at 75-80 MPH. RPM at 80 was around 1900. I changed the oil before I left and reset the oil life meter. Changed the oil again last night and it showed I had 45% oil life remaining. Filled up the tank today and 36 gallons was 260.00 here. The cheapest fuel I found on the trip was down in the Dallas area at 5.15 a gallon. Had some rain here and there but overall nice weather for traveling. I guess the highlight of the Dallas stop was at Buc-ee's as my aunt insisted on us going there. For Des Moines it was Bravo Italian Kitchen, rather good food. The rest was funerals and various grave site visits.
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