2004 F 150 Heavy Duty

[150snowplow]

I am redoing my lawn so last week I went to pick up a load of sods my a friend of mine cut them for me a guy who works for him said to me you taking all them in one trip (1000 sq feet) I said yep I got a 1 1\2 hour drive so pile them on he just goes on and puts them on and after they are loaded said I have never put that many sods on a F 150 before. by the way 70 mph all the away with a full load

I love My Truck
like the sign in my back window says
Little boy's drive Bowtie's Big boy's drive Ford's

[bob800]

I had a 83 f150 and took a load of shingle to our local transfer station I hit the scale at 10500# The scale operator came out and shock my hand.

[Colorado Osprey]

2-3 ton in the bed huh?

Only the new '05 Super Duty is supposed to do that.
I'm glad everyone made it safely and didn't kill anyone else.

When you plan to do it again post everyone so we will not be on the road with you.

[bob800]

Originally Posted by Colorado Osprey

2-3 ton in the bed huh?

Only the new '05 Super Duty is supposed to do that.
I'm glad everyone made it safely and didn't kill anyone else.

When you plan to do it again post everyone so we will not be on the road with you.

That's right 4600# the truck weight was 5900 it was a heavy 1/2, over loads from the factory, 4:11 gears transfer station is only a mile from where I picked the load up at and down a county road 30 mph at best

[Colorado Osprey]

You'll probably want to check it over very carefully starting with spring shackle bolts, shackles, u-bolts, axles for crystallation, cracking on axle housing near the outer wheel bearings and where it attaches to the pumpkin, etc...

The reason there are max GVWR is safety. Just because it didn't break with the load doesn't mean damage wasn't done and it's not about to break. Picture a paperclip. Bends easily once, and right back again. Try it a few times and it breaks. Metal crystalization is impossible to reverse, once it occurs it is just a waiting game until it breaks.

If you ever sell it you should probably tell the new owner what you've done so they know to look out for it too.

[bob800]

that was 10 years ago or so, My son has it now swapped out the 351w for a 1970 429ci scj , and about 100000 miles later the only problems he his having is keeping tires on it. and desplined the rht side half shaft..