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I went ahead and put just over 4k lbs in the bed this weekend. Hauled 2 trips 4k each of wood pellets. Had about 2 inches to the frame stop, but the tires looked overloaded for sure. Had no problems though, I wouldn't recommend it for any long trips though. I have an early 99 250. I will say that is my max load!
I had 3240 of steel in it yesterday. Old cast iron baseboard radiators and 1.5" schedule 40 pipe. It didn't even come up to the bed rails, but she handled great.
Last load to the job site: 80 sheets of wallboard , a bunch of long floor joists, four buckets of mud...total weight (not including the rocks in my head) 5,100 lbs.
No problems, during the 60 mile drive. Stopping was sluggish as expected, I did not hit any pot holes or bumps that would have greatly increased the live load.
The rig seems to have recovered fine w/no changes to the suspension.
Last load to the job site: 80 sheets of wallboard , a bunch of long floor joists, four buckets of mud...total weight (not including the rocks in my head) 5,100 lbs.
No problems, during the 60 mile drive. Stopping was sluggish as expected, I did not hit any pot holes or bumps that would have greatly increased the live load.
The rig seems to have recovered fine w/no changes to the suspension.
I've loaded up a pallet of brick in the bed of my truck. The pallet probably weighed about 3K and with the air bags sitting at 20 lbs (They have to be at 15 to 20 without a load) all it did was lvl my truck out.
A buddy of mine loaded his truck with what he figured to be about 6 to 7K worth of gravel, the bed fully loaded and squatted the crud out of his truck, bowed the tail gate but he pulled it. He said the truck was definitely letting him know that it was a heavy load but it drove just fine.
Did another light "heavy load" the other day, another load of pellets, probably total load with leer top etc. was around 2200-2400 including all the other crap in the truck.......I can't help it, I baby the truck. ;-)
Drove great as usual, it was nice to hear the engine work a tad on the hills, not much but a tad....
A few years ago I had 3,450lbs of tile in the bed.........she was sitting pretty good.....luckily I did not have to go far and never got over 40mph in the short haul.
Was running 3,600 pound loads in mine, about 20 miles not over 40 mph. Backing off of that as the rear springs have a reverse arch with that load. Now just loading to where the rear spring is flat. Not sure what the actual lower weight is.
Even with the higher load, the helper springs were not contacting on the forward pad.
Did once run a load like your's (PortSample) in a Chevy C10 (1/2 ton) pickup. About 10 miles on surface streets, not over 20 mph. Granny low and 1st gear only. Frame sitting on the rear axle. Ah, to be young and dumb and lucky again.
I had to pick up a load for work, and we have scales. Stinky was riding at 10,000 pounds loaded, and handled like a Cadillac - but the traction bars likely helped.
Being able to haul a heavy load is a good thing, as long as you can STOP IT. Don't know about other states but around here if you are over weight and have an accident you are going to get the blame regardless of who is at fault.
Roger that. Good wisdom there hydro_man_17. I did another load today on my ATS springs hauling 3,600 pounds of gravel. Suspension today definitely like I had a bit of spring on reserve if I needed it whereas yesterday felt mushed out. Most of this was open road driving with no other traffic. Took it slow and easy.
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