Maybe its a car hauler. We don't know, the poster never said. So the trailer place might be very correct!

 

In Posts 3 & 17, he mentions travel trailers.

Steve

 

I stopped on page 2 before he mentioned the travel trailer, missed the reference in post 3. I just got so tired of the same thing being said over and over I just stopped reading!!

And ditto the stopping. Balanced correctly a F150 can tow a house. Imagine worst case senario... your trailer brakes fail and you are just about to rear end a schoolbus. Can your truck stop the trailer before you hit? If not, get a bigger truck.

 

So just to make it straight, I have the F150 4wd, 5.4L FX4 w/18in tires. I am purchasing bumper pull travel trailer with a dry weight at 6800. Yes or No?

 

That's really not enough info to say exact - what year, gear ratio, curb weight.
My guess is that if you are conservative with what you pack, yes, you could pull it. But when you figure that 6800 dry weight can be 8400 wet (or more) - then yuo are getting in to the uppper limits of that truck... of course we don't know the limits because we donlt have all of the details.

 

Where the heck do I get all that info, its a 2007 I do know that?

 

A couple of places,
1) The window sticker lists all the standard features & options that came on the truck. It lists engine, transmission, rear axle gears, etc.

2) Sticker on the drivers side door B-pillar lists GVWR, Axle code, GAWR etc.


With the GVWR, GAWR, Rear axle gears, engine and transmission we can give you the rough numbers from the Trailer Tow Guide i posted links to in the above post.

With the GVWR, GAWR, rear axle gears, engine and transmission, you then go to your local CAT scale and weigh your truck for $10 (with a full load of fuel, you in it and any gear normally kept in the truck). The scale printout will give you the wet curb weight of your truck plus Front & Rear axle weights.
www.clubfte.com/users/monsta/safeloading.html

From this info you can determine how much payload capacity you have left, as i stated in my earlier post.

Further understand that the "dry weight" on the trailer brochure is a far cry from what the trailer will actually weigh when loaded. The 6800lb "dry weight" is without any options on the trailer from the options list (ie, AC,Stereo, Microwave, Awnings etc), also you have to factor in the addition of food, water(at 8lbs per gallon) dinnerware, untensils, cookware, bedding etc). This trailer wet could easily weigh 8500-9000lbs and without knowing your actual truck weight, GVWR, GAWR, GCWR we cannot safely tell you if you can tow this trailer.

Please give us the vehicle GVWR, GAWR, Rear axle code or gear ratio(code on door pillar sticker) and then we will have a chance to help you with ball park numbers.

 

Ok I have tried to post this before but the comp keeps dropping my post for some reason/

here it is F150 4x4 FX4 3.7 ratio limited slip rear end. 138.5 wheel base. Trailer tow package. 5/4L V8 18in tires. The way my manual reads it can tow 8700 lbs. My trailer is 6800 dry. that gives me 1900 lbs of cargo. ?? is that right?

 

Okay, you should have the following
GVWR = 7,200 (Check sticker on drivers door B Pillar)
GAWR = ??
GCWR = 14,500

ASSUMING your truck weighs 5800Lbs "Wet" based on the GCWR you could tow up to 8,700Lbs. BUT and this is important, with an 8700lb TT you would have a tongue weight of 870-1305lbs which will probably put you over your Rear GAWR and would not let you carry more than one or two passengers in the truck based on a passenger weight of 175lb which would leave little room for other gear.

You need to weigh your truck, like i mentioned before and then, from this information you can see how much payload the truck and axles have based on GVWR and GAWR.

I am of the belief that once you weigh your truck you will not be able to pull the Puma trailer you want when then trailer is Loaded & Wet, as the trailer will probably weigh closer to 8500-9000 loaded. The fresh, grey & black tanks full would weigh over 1100 lbs, and so with partial fills could easily add 700 lbs right off the bat, before you add anything else.

Without your truck "Wet" curb weight and GAWR this is speculation at best, but a 30 foot TT (with a GVWR of 9600lbs) is alot of trailer for a F150 Screw.

Hope this helps

 

craig (IDMooseMan), that's the total number of posts YOU have made on the forum. It's incremented with every post you make. Each thread is rendered dynamically when you view it, so that number will always reflect your current post count, regardless of the date you posted to to the thread...

 

d-hol,

IMO you need to be looking at trailers with a GVWR rating of 8,000lbs or less as this is more of a reality for your F150 Screw. Looking at the Puma brochure this puts you in the 18-25 foot class of trailer. This would be much better suited for your truck as you really should not tow more than 90% of your trucks rating to leave a margin for safety and not overly tax the drivetrain. Remember more important than pulling the trailer is Stopping and controlling the trailer around corners and in windy conditions.

If you want to be in the 9600 GVWR trailer class you should really be looking at a Super Duty to pull it.

Hope this helps.

 

Here is your answer. Just go to your year and look it up. Enjoy the facts.

http://www.trailerlife.com/output.cfm?id=42175

 

Just and update, i bought the trailer and have not had any trouble pulling it. I really didn't have a choice, I just bought this pickup and I didn't like any of the smaller trailers so I really didn't have much of a choice.

Guess the best advice I could give was if your going to by a truck and even have a inclination of bying a trailer, bye the biggest you can get, then you have no worries.

Thanks for all the great advice

 

Pulling a trailer's the easy part; if you max out the weight, make sure your brake systems are in excellent shape!

Steve

 

Well its a 2007 truck, what else can I do about the brakes. Of course it has a trailer brake system also?