much much weight are you pulling?
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much much weight are you pulling?
Just out of curiosity, how much weight do you guys pull with your truck, and how does she handle it?
I got my 97 w/ manual and 4.10's to replace a 3/4 suburban I was using to pull my toy hauler. Fully loaded with gas and water and toys etc etc, my toy hauler weighs in at about 9500 lbs, and I pull throughout the mountains in northern california.
I just got my prodigy brake controller, so I will be going for a dry run this week. Next weekend I have a motorcycle race that I can going to take my trailer to. I hope she pulls it OK.
WR
I got my 97 w/ manual and 4.10's to replace a 3/4 suburban I was using to pull my toy hauler. Fully loaded with gas and water and toys etc etc, my toy hauler weighs in at about 9500 lbs, and I pull throughout the mountains in northern california.
I just got my prodigy brake controller, so I will be going for a dry run this week. Next weekend I have a motorcycle race that I can going to take my trailer to. I hope she pulls it OK.
WR
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i am new here so here goes. I have an F350 7.3L crew cab extended wheelbase. With our fifth wheel Take 3, 4 car auto hauler we total out at about 34000 gross and run back and forth Texas to Calif. to supplement our income (Retired) YA. Our auto trans needs beefing up and we need more HP & Torque. The low hills are more like mountains. ANY SUGGESTIONS??? All is strictly stock and current actual mileage is 72K. a one owner truck. We are considering getting rid of the PU body for weight savings. could loose about 1K lbs.
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From: STEPHENVILLE,TX!!!!!
i pull my 14,000lb horse trailer round most of the week with not a thought of problems
emc on the mods, intercooler, tony wildman chip, johnwood trans jwtt.com, could get some largerinjectors and turbo, beansdieselperformance.com
by the way the pickup box isnt very heavy 2 guys can lift it off and walk it around. think it only wieghts about 400lbs
emc on the mods, intercooler, tony wildman chip, johnwood trans jwtt.com, could get some largerinjectors and turbo, beansdieselperformance.com
by the way the pickup box isnt very heavy 2 guys can lift it off and walk it around. think it only wieghts about 400lbs
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i pretty much max out my 12K lb gooseneck when i haul my bronco to go wheeling. thats the biggest load i haul on a semi-regular bassis. i've hauled as much as 18K or so with a skidsteer and implements on a buddies trailer.
more weight there is, the better she rides
and i have brakes on both axles so trailer could stop the truck pretty easily even when loaded!
-cutts-
more weight there is, the better she rides
and i have brakes on both axles so trailer could stop the truck pretty easily even when loaded!-cutts-
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Originally Posted by emc5175
i am new here so here goes. I have an F350 7.3L crew cab extended wheelbase. With our fifth wheel Take 3, 4 car auto hauler we total out at about 34000 gross and run back and forth Texas to Calif. to supplement our income (Retired) YA. Our auto trans needs beefing up and we need more HP & Torque. The low hills are more like mountains. ANY SUGGESTIONS??? All is strictly stock and current actual mileage is 72K. a one owner truck. We are considering getting rid of the PU body for weight savings. could loose about 1K lbs.
Thanks EMC5176
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Basically do a research on here to answer your own questions but depending on how far you want to go for power, first things you should do is this.
buy a down pipe, lose the CAT converter if you can pending on emmision laws, do a tymar air filter, shim your regulator. from here on in if you want to start sinking more money, go with injectors, full set of gauges but at the very lease an EGT gauge, custom burned chip, and an intercooler if your EGT's climb to high/to fast. thiers a bunch of other stuff to do but thats at the top of my head.
Best thing you need, like above would be a 97 f350 standard with 4:10 gears and start from thier if you like the body style, personally if I was hauling those kinda of loads all the time, I would go out and buy an 01 with a 7.3 f450.
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97 250 SC w/dump box insert 212K miles: I put 7000# of gravel in the truck and pull dump trailer with 14000# gravel. Scale out at 28-30K regularly. Mods: Down pipe and 4" straight exaust; EGT, Trans, Boost gauges; Air bags (for the loads). Next: Exaust brake, Wildman chip.
I take my time and she pulls great. No problems and I plan to get 500K on this oil burner and then freshen it up and do it again. No reason to get annother truck at $40-50K when this one is paid for and does everything I need.
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I take my time and she pulls great. No problems and I plan to get 500K on this oil burner and then freshen it up and do it again. No reason to get annother truck at $40-50K when this one is paid for and does everything I need.
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The biggest load my f-250 is a toss up. The first is a john deere backhoe on a 24 ft w/ 6ft dove tail big tex flat bed trailer. The other would be 8 tons of hay on the same trailer. I think the hay scaled at 26-28k gross. It pulls both loads like a champ but you just have to take it easy in towns where people zip out in front of you and stop. Also with loads like this you NEED trailer brakes.
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Originally Posted by 97-7.3dump
No reason to get annother truck at $40-50K when this one is paid for and does everything I need.
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I may have put my foot in my mouth what I said but I thaught CVWR was around 20,000lbs, thats 14,000 more then what its rated for, I could have my figures wrong about the weight ratings.
As for doing it the odd time, giv'r, I would do it for bragging right........
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I know my truck is rated for a 14,000 lbs trailer, so 20,000 lbs gvwr sounds about right. If I pulled loads that big all the time I would be in a f-450 or 550. Sure it will go fine, but will it stop fine?
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Originally Posted by emc5175
i am new here so here goes. I have an F350 7.3L crew cab extended wheelbase. With our fifth wheel Take 3, 4 car auto hauler we total out at about 34000 gross and run back and forth Texas to Calif. to supplement our income (Retired) YA. Our auto trans needs beefing up and we need more HP & Torque. The low hills are more like mountains. ANY SUGGESTIONS??? All is strictly stock and current actual mileage is 72K. a one owner truck. We are considering getting rid of the PU body for weight savings. could loose about 1K lbs.
Thanks EMC5176
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While I'm sure you'll see tons of suggestions on how to strengthen your truck to handle the weight, my best advice would be to trade the 350 in on something rated for that load...... Like an F-750.
If you are involved in an accident whith your truck overloaded by 14,000 pounds Johnny Lawman is going to throw away the key.
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My 97 E450 has a gvw of 14k or so, and it usually is. I don't know what the tow rating is, but I usually pull 10-12k, and have no trouble with it. I have it registered for 25,900.