pulling way too much
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From: Bryan Texas
pulling way too much
I had to put my 300 to the test today my sisters friends f350 crew cab tranny went out and being the last person she knows with a running truck i was talked in pulling this truck about 30 miles with my 85 150 stepside 300 with four speed overdrive and 2.73 gears . I mean it pulled, bent the mess out of my bumoper it pulled strong untill i ran out of pedal at about 45 mph so with the wight of trailer and truck i guess i pulled around 5000lbs . my ousetion is what could i have hurt doing this i mean truck ran cool and the clutch diidnt slip, i never have pulled anything like this without a least a 3/4 ton truck so ?
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From: Sussex County, DE
I agree with silverstreak, you propably were about 7,500 to 8,000 lbs with a crew cab F350 on (I assume) a tandam axle trailer. Not bad considering the highway gears. Is the 300 the best?! Boy I guess!
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I have had 6000# or more on my 300 with 4spd and it did fine. No it will not be a speed demon with that weight but it will pull long after the v-8 stop!
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5000lbs! Jease, don't worry bout a thing your fine. Call me what you want but every weekend I head to a tractor pull with a total of 12,500lbs. on a tandem gooseneck then whatever the truck weighes I don't know. This is with my original 86 F-150 245K 4x4 300 same clutch, and 5_labsownus is right, it ain't a speed demon , but it'll make 55 to 60 mph on a straight a way and 40 up some steep hills screamin in 3rd. I got 3.08's and a T-18 4 speed granny low (clutch saver at the stop signs), the darn gooseneck weighs 4800lbs. alone empty. I got the leaf springs blocked up (2x4 shoved in between the bottom short leaf and the pack) so it don't set it down to the fenders. Although I recently ripped my transmission mount in half (fixed) and sheared a motor mount bolt clean off(engine currently rachet straped in) But it's an addictive sport, shoot what's another 12 bucks for a motor mount? I think that just broke cuz the tranny mount broke, dang thing was only a few months old sheared the last one off muddin (to darn torquey), maybe I'll just weld it solid, that'll solve it. Anyway I wouldn't think nothin of it.
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Dude thats not much of a load. I pulled a Yard spotter truck (semi) with loaded trailer at work one day with my 86 5.0 F150 AOD. I only moved it about 100 yards at about 4mph, with the brakes off but i figured that it weighted about 50,000 lbs. I just stepped on the gas a little and it started to move, it was level ground.
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Yeah, well this winter a semi got stuck on the groove of the railroad tracks on ice and couldn't move what-so-ever cuz the trailer was in about a foot of snow with a house on the back. I heard him talkin on the CB so I asked if he needed some help and he asked if I had a tractor, I said yeah, but I live kinda far away and I don't wanna leave ya here on the tracks. So I hooked up put er in 4 low and started spinning every tire making holes in the gravel road, not really movin it to much, so I put it in 2nd 4 low, just smokin the tires, not the doing much, so I start jerkin on the thing and get it out of the groove, but he's still on ice and the trailer tires still in snow so he's no help anyway I still got it in 2nd and I finnally get on some gravel and a harder part of the road and slowly but surely I spin at about 30 some miles an hour going like 2mph and pull em out. Not bad, although about a 1/4 of my tires were gone.
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