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You are hung up on can or can't. It is should or shouldn't it be done. Hell even Curt Manufacture recommends an (average) weight of one of their 4900lb capacity trailers to be between 900 and 4900lbs. So let's split the difference and say 2000lbs. Now trailer and skiddy are 6700lbs, add chains and binders, and anything else you may need say tool kit for a breakdown. And you are at 6950....
The pictures I posted are in "can but shouldn't" territory. 7k combined behind a 30yo half ton is "you can and it's perfectly fine in normal circumstances" territory.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
At the age of these trucks, most of them on any average street corner for sale, are not at 60 percent the quality and therefore capacity handling they were in the 90s. (F250 and 350s included to make it fair)
How many more cycles does that master cylinder have in it? How are those caliper seals? Going to puke a 26 year old piston seal if you have to stomp the brakes because some ****** pulls out in front of you?
Degradation isn't linear like that and it's mind boggling that we have to have to have this discussion on a forum where for trucks that are approximately 30yr old at the absolute newest. Things like master cylinders are not built to within an inch of their life and are generally fine for nearly infinite hard use. It's when you let things sit for a long time that system failures pop up either when put back into service or shortly thereafter.
Regardless, surprise brake issues are generally not the kind of problem people who use their stuff to capacity have. That's a problem that all the "I have a 1-ton truck for my bass boat" people in here have because you're never using things to what they're capable of so you're at risk of finding out the hard way that they're in poor shape when you do need full capacity.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
How well was the rearend maintained? Will throwing a heavier than rated trailer on it going to smoke an axle bearing on an axle that wasn't meant for towing that much.
You're peddling baseless fear. That's not a realistic concern at 700lb of tongue weight or 1500 of axle weight.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
Leaf springs look good until loaded, oops 150 springs let go rearend is free on the driver side free ride to the ditch. If you are lucky.
If you'd ever broken a leaf spring you'd know that's not what happens. It's a loud noise and the truck drives funny. They break near the middle anyway. If leaf spring failures were as bad as you're making them out to be then every jerk like you would be all over the internet telling people to be careful about them.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
All it takes is one jackass to cause you to wreck, now you being over gvw gets you in all sorts of trouble. Insurance refuses to cover you because of it, dot troubles, lawyer stuff...
That's not how things work. Your insurance is not gonna let the other guy dodge liability for something they caused because their insured was 15% over his max tow weight. Second, there would be no point to liability insurance if they could just not cover you because you were over some limit or breaking some law. You're either very ignorant here or just lying.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
Can the 150 do it? Sure.
Should he? That's his call.
You sure aren't acting like it's his call.
Originally Posted by Mudsport96
Would I? If I was single and didn't have a family to come home to, probably. But, I kinda like my kid having a dad.
