Getting ready to go thru my first winter with a 2wd truck! Due to the crappy economy and getting laid off, I have had to downsize, sell, cut back, quit going out, stopped buying & regroup.....but did manage to figure out how to still buy/drive a truck! It's a 2000 F150 SC w/LS rear end w/Toyo A/T's in "ok" shape. Just picked it up about 3 weeks ago.



I've asked several people and everybody is an expert!! Haven't got the same answer twice! Anyway.......looking to find out the magic number (pounds)of weight to put in the bed to get this 2wd thru the snow?



Today I added 400 pounds.....enough????......Looking for experienced $.02!?

Thx

 

I doubt there is a magical number.. More weight = more traction.. How much weight you wanna lug around is the question.

 

welcome to the site!

ive added 240 pounds so far. im curious to know as well.

i asked this question before.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/19...-sand-bed.html

 

Exactly ^^^...Before my 4WD now (which I still put weight in) I drove 2WD trucks in MA winters. A couple hundred pounds of sandbags should be no problem

 

Well, shifty_85 seems to know what you need for maximum tracktion lol.


@ 1500 lbs -



@ 2,565 lbs -



@ 4000 lbs -



@ 4550 lbs -



So yea, what ever your comfortable with.. -I guess.

 

i end up going with 8 cinders and very rarley have to use the 4x4

 

I never add weight w/shift on fly 4wd. There's no need to. I might throw about 500 lbs w/2wd, -in the very back.

 

eleventy

 

I don't add anything. I learned how to drive in the snow with rear drive vehicles that are light in the ***. Haven't gotten the truck stuck yet - and I did have it in Chicago for one winter.

 

I've got about 400-450 in sand bags and I've never had an issue.