Ok, I was wondering that also. Truck looks good, I bought a brand spanking new 86 cab/chassis in late 1985 with a 6.9 and 4 speed. Seeing yours makes me think about that old truck.

 

Thanks. Glad ya like it. Scored a flatbed for $275 and will be picking it up this Sat. Now I can haul much more.

 

shats the most weight anyone has pulled with an idi? Non turbo im interested in.
i was reading the 24v cummins forums and guys are pullin 20k easy, sometimes up to 30 combined.
Wonder how an ol NA would hold up pullin 20k..

 

I pulled 20k trailer 28,500 pounds combined weight consistently

 

Those 24v guys are full of it, unless theyre far from stock. I can see 20k combined, but not easily. That or they have no idea what a grade is.

Most i pulled "easily" when i was NA would have been a 74 duster on a 2k lb trailer. Combined would have been somewhere around 12k. Going up a 3 mile 6% grade i was just gettin ready to grab 3rd at the top. That is with 3.55s and 35s, im sure a lower geared truck could have pulled it in 4th just fine.

Most ive pulled would have been around 8k worth of rock in a steel dump trailer, my guess cgvw would have been a little north of 16k... it was not easy... neither was stopping it. But, it did pull it pretty good, i would try hauling it on a hwy going up hills and what not, but around town it did fine if you could time lights.

Now that i have the turbo on there, i can pull the car and trailer just as easy as the empty trailer before.

 

Two years ago I was pulling a total weight of 22-24K pounds with the dually. About 40 miles one way, hauling rock for a landscape job I did. (There's pics somewhere on here.) Tare weight of truck and trailer was 10K, loaded I ran anywhere from 19K to 24K.

That truck is lazy to say the least, it is still running the original Ip and injectors, with about 260K miles or so on it, and a C6 getting it to the wheels.

 

Have about 11-12k lbs total here.




On a side note, this van has one hell of a strong rear suspension. With this Buick on it, it only dropped an inch. When we loaded the car on the trailer, we had the F150 hooked to it, and it dropped the truck down so low, we had to back the truck up on some wood to get it high enough to swing down the trailer jack!

 

Jon, your comparing half ton suspension to 1 ton suspension.......lol

 

Yea, re-enforced 1 ton to, 10 leaf pack, no overloads!

 

In 1996 I had a 90 F350 CC Dually, 7.3 N/A with ZF-5 speed with 4.10s, and it had a fresh pump and injectors at the time. A lot of Texas was in a drought that summer (unheard of for Texas I know ) but in my area we had gotten rains and had lots of hay that south and south central TX didn't have.

I have a buddy down there with a feed store, and so we saw the price of round bales here and what they would bring there (200 miles from me) and so we started truckin...

My gooseneck (still have it) is a converted mini float. It has 34' of deck + the gneck, has dual tandems and has 14" x 22 lb per ft. I-beams for the frame. Its like pullin a tank around, the thing weighs 8,000 lbs empty.

His rig was a 32' deck gneck (prolly little lighter than mine) and he had a 2 yr old 94 stock Powerstroke, 5spd flatbed 1 ton. We would load those trucks up with 16K + of round bales and it surprised both of us how well my old 7.3 N/A held up to the powerstroke. He could ease past me on the bigger hills, but on level ground and small ups and downs we ran together at about 60 mph. The fresh pump and injectors had a lot to do with that.

This was with 16K of payload, 8K of trailer, and around 7k of truck. Figure that up, and I'm glad the DOT never stopped us!! Wish I had some pictures, but digital cameras were just coming out about then I think. Both our trailers had (at the time) vacuum disc brakes on all 4 wheels so stopping was not a problem. Also keep in mind that besides the weight, all the wind drag from double stacked round bales.

A local friend told me, ya your making good money, but let me tell ya that kind of hauling will eat a truck up.... And it did in time.

 

^thats another thing-longevity. how many miles will people be getting on a never touched long block on those 24v cummins or 6.7s.

my trucks got 450 kms on her, original injectors (probably pump too) runs pretty OK IMO. she got a long time to go i think

 

A set of injectors for a common rail Cummins cost more than most of our trucks are worth!!

 

I think your trailer is a little overloaded! When I had my 89 E350 cargo van gasser I hauled heavier loads then that buick inside the van! And the van barely dropped at all.

 

Oh yes that it was but you gotta do with what you got eh! I'm planning on adding a 2nd axle to this trailer.

 

That trailer needs more then just another axle. I think it needs a car trailer slipped in under it!

My smaller of my two trailers.

My heavier trailer.