I've lost my owner's manual and am trying to find out how much weight I can safely tow with my 1995 F-250 straight six. It's an automactic and I'm not sure of the axel ratio. Does anyone know how much weight I can tow? Thanks!

 

axle ratio will dictate how much you can tow. i would assume that truck has a 4.10 ratio, the diffs should have tags on them with this info . i would go online and do a search for your year trucks specs. once you figure out the gear ratio that is.

 

i am pretty sure the GCWR was less than 12,000 lbs. could be as low as 11,500 figure the truck weighs 5600 lbs curb weight.leaves you 5,900 lbs.

 

thats way low for an f250. my jeep grand cherokee has a 5000lb tow rating. i would say and this is a guess as well but its probably 7000lbs + easy. but not higher then 8500lbs

 

you would be suprised its not that low. a f150 was made to tow 2,000 lbs.

 

a google search returned plenty of hits that show a truck identical to his but with a 351w has a 11,500 GCWR. so the 300 may knock 500 off that.

 

Are you serious? The guy that my dad bought my truck from use to tow a 9K fifth wheel horse trailor. I have a 93 F150 5.8L 4X4. It has 154K miles on it and Ive only put 23k on it myself. And he drove it constantly to compitions.

 

those figures are probably from the bumper. but if a reciever hitch was installed i promis its much higher towing capacity then that. hell the new v6 toyota tacomas have a 7700lb tow rating properly equiped

 

I just happen to have my manual laying here.
F250 regular cab light duty 3.55 - 10000lbs
F250 regular cab heavy duty 4.11 - 11000lbs

My manual shows the 4.9 only in 2WD F250s. Light duty and heavy duty. The super cab is shown as heavy duty with 11000lbs and 4.11.
The manual is a 1996 edition.

 

edmunds.com gave the 5.8 f250 a 10,000lb tow rating.
http://www.edmunds.com/used/1995/for...610/specs.html

i would imagine the 300-6 version to not be to much less

 

This is always a controversial subject, two ways to look at it, the first way; Tow Capacity is What the truck is physicly able to drag down the highway (most often used), the second way; Ford Rates "towing capacity" per vehicle by there "ACCEPTANCE TESTING" (what they will guarentee) Which, is a combination of Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR=Front + Rear Axel weight rating) on door sticker), Engine, axel ratio and type of transmission (also assumes stock tires).

Bigger the Engine, higher the Axel ratio and the higher the GVWR the higher the Gross Tow Capacity.

Net Tow Capacity=Gross Vehicle Combined Weight Rating (Vehicle + Tow (Door sticker) - actual payload in the vehicle (Passengers, payload & gear).

Things to consider; The GVWR is usually always limited by the tire rating load class, even from the fatory hence (max)3,240 lbs X 2 tires = 6,480 lbs on the rear axel, the only way to increase is go to a "Dually". I point this out only to explain the differance When adding the Front & Rear axel weights together yeilds a number larger than the actual rating.

Also Fords HD rating applies to vehicles over 8,500 lbs
Vehicles rated HD have larger brakes compared to LD. The easy part is getting them started.