I own a 92 F-250 with a 4.9 in line 6. JUst woundering if you guys could tell me what it could pull and haul.
Thanks
alpinearchery

 

As far as hauling, a 3/4 ton truck will handle 2500-3000 lbs in the bed and still be safely driveable. I have loaded my old 78 F-250 as high as the top of the cab with wet oak firewood, and it only squatted a coupla inches. The six will have plenty of power for anything you can haul in the bed, but will be limited to about 5000 towing capacity if you still want to accelerate.

 

Hmmmm...before you follow that advice you'd better check your owners manual for figuring out what you want to do.

There's a lot more to this than whether the truck "squats" a little or a lot. There are brakes,trannies, tire, and front end suspension issues to consider before you overload the bed. Or even haul a trailer.

If you need to haul lots of weight often , spending the money now on a trailer (with brakes) will save you money on repairs in the long run.

 

The F-250 3/4 ton truck has bigger brakes, 8 lug wheels, 6 ply tires, stiff HD suspension, steeper gears, transmission cooler. What else do you need to haul heavy loads?

 

Not to mention that there were two axle options in the F250 that resulted in two GVWRs. The HD option, which came with the 6084 lb-rated 10.25" Sterling full-float axle meant you had a GVWR of 8800. I don't recall what the other was, but it was quite a bit less, I think around 7000lb GVWR.

Jason

 

Common sense, perhaps.

You don't know anything about his truck; which axles, tranny, rearend gears, etc. That's why I referred him to an owners manual. He needs to decode the door sticker and find out what the specs are, then decide for himself if the Ford engineers were playing it safe and leaving room for "overloading", or whether the Ford marketers were playing fast and loose with numbers to appeal to misguided machos.

The LOAD weight a vehicle can carry overall and over each axle depends on it's equipment configuration and the weight of the components,and other equipment. (toolboxes, hitches, etc). You can have a big beefy truck that only has a few hundred or couple thousand pounds available for a load after the math is done.

That's why a trailer is a better option overall: a truck can haul a 5000+ lb trailer with a 600lb. tongue weight more safely and reliably than it can hauling 1/3 to 1/2 that same weight in the bed. But youSTILL have to knowyour numbers for trailer hauling too.

Sure, you might pile a [overload] bunch in the bed or haul a big-**** trailer on a semi-regular basis, but you may greatly reduce the life of the truck or its major components. I've seen a lot of newer "heavy-duty" trucks on the side of the road at holiday time, broke down, and hauling a huge boat or RV.

Front suspension was designed with proper weight in mind as well. Too much weight in the back and you float the front, making steering light. I understand you can also cause wear in parts that were designed to operate with a load on them...not "floating".

Alpinearchery, go to the towing forum and ask the same question, you'll probably get some good stuff there.

 

Alpinearchery:
Make sure you check your tires, if you are going to be hauling max weight for any distance, you need 10 ply tires (load range E) otherwise you will dramatically overload your rubber, and losing a tire at highway speed with a max load could very easily lead to disaster! Good luck,

Kevin

 

Hay you guys are great.Thanks for the help.