3042 lb payload... :-D
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From: Quispamsis, N.B, Canada
3042 lb payload... :-D
hi guys, its been quite a while since i last posted on here. Anyways today me and a buddy of mine went and picked up some 1/2" clear. As it was dumped into the back of my ford I noticed the leaf springs sag a bit. I have new leaf springs as well as shocks. She squated alittle bit.. turns out it was 3042 lbs of gravel in a 1/2 ton truck. A little sketchy driving but other than that the old girl worked really good. I hear 3000+ lbs is too much for a f150....?? 
Who ever's startin that rumor I'm endin it right now!
Who ever's startin that rumor I'm endin it right now!
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Long story but a few years ago, I accidently hauled 4300 lbs of rock in a 76 f150. Pumped up the tires to get the rims off the ground. Drove about 10 miles in 1st and 2nd. Might have gotten as fast as 20MPH once. Sure had light steering. Don't recommend it.
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From: Rochester, MN
Many times Dad would load up the 74 F100...we hauled a load of sows and a couple boars to the stockyards (about 80 miles), to find that they weighed right at 3000#. Had a tall rack onit, we'd stack firewood in there to the top of the rack. He had put some sort of overload spring around the shocks. We replaced the 360 with a 390 from a 66 Mercury. Didn't have and didn't need PS with those loads. Otherwise, it would have been nice to have.
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From: Iowa
I'm a country/farm kid, and as such, am used to driving overloaded/unsafe vehicles held together with baling wire and twine, but one thing a lot of people don't think about, even if you're only going 20 mph on a backroad, is with a semi-floating rear end under a half ton truck, the axle can snap and you lose the wheel and tire. I'm always a lot more comfortable overloading a truck with a full-floater rear end.
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It's not that those trucks want occassionally handle loads like that, it's that you are exceeding the designed safe limits of the truck. If you ever haul a load like that and have an accident in which some other party is hurt, the lawyers will have a field day with your @ss!
