we've been restoring a house for about a month now, and its time for the flooring to go in, so I went and picked it up today and drove about an hour from the flooring place to the house, all on the freeway at an average speed of 70mph. The weight on the invoice was 1801 pounds, and let me say, I could feel every pound of it....

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The suspension took it *okay*, but the engine didnt like it much. There was no upshifting going uphills, and it stayed in OD pretty well, but forget about acceleration...

Was this a bad thing to do, or are there people on here that do it all the time?

 

looks fine to me.
people push their bed capacities and weight limits all the time MUCH more than you did, so unless it would be a REAL long drive im sure youre fine

edit: its a truck, its meant to do this kind of thing

the number they give for weight limit is really the number of LBS that would make it so the bed doesnt sag down like an old womans rack.

 

Youre using it for what it was built for, good job.

 

cool, I thought so. The guy that loaded it in said that usually when he loads f150s they bottom out real easy at around that weight, and he was surprised. I'm sure my LT265's helped a bit however.

 

What engine do you have??

 

4.6

 

my guess would be a 4.6L.

 

I hauled 3600 lbs of sand in my old 97 scab 4x4 w/4.6 no problem.

 

I've done worse... Glad to hear your truck handled it fine.

 

i have hauled a ton of pellets a few times....nothing real far and on back roads. i would have to say that going that fast with all that weight might be a little bit of pushing your luck. just like alot of guys doing all the go fast stuff on a motorcycle and not worrying about the brakes and suspension mods to stop all the new found power. but the load sounds fine. mine didn't hit the stops either on the suspension when i did it.

 

Thats what its built for. Ive overloaded the F150 and had the Ranger way over many times with no problems.

 

I used to overload my 4.0L manual tranny Ranger all the time. I had the bed full of gravel once...that's the worst thing I've ever done to it.

I haven't had anywhere even near 2,000 pounds in my F150 yet, but when I do, I'll take some pictures.

 

Been with my father-in-law with just slightly over a ton of pellets in his 05 Lariat, on the highway, doing 65-70 and didn't notice a thing.

 

I hauled well over 3500 pounds of gravel more than once in the flareside, and it sagged pretty bad, but it took it and still drove fine. You could tell it had a load on it, but it worked just like a Ford truck is supposed to!

 

I hauled about 3500lbs of Sakrete and the boy at 84 lumber made me sign a waiver,I was in a bad situation and it was an F-250, but man was I ever tense. Worse than having diarhea ,wearing white shorts ,in a wedding rehersal the day after winning a burrito eatin' contest,,whew,,,,that's a visual for ya':o