I have a 98 f250 LD and recently had the tile people load 3200lbs of materials in the truck. Hope it did not hurt anything. How do you know how much the truck can carry? its rear axle is rated at 4800lbs but I dont know what that means. Any help would be appreciated.

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98 F250 LD 5.4 dual exhaust, K&N, Big tires

 

Your door info should indicate GAWR's for the front axle and rear axle individually -- but the total truck is not to exceed the rated GVWR.

The GAWR for the individual axles will undoubtedly add up to more than the GVWR -- which makes sense since Ford knows that you'll be loading your truck unevenly (like with a snow plow on the front -- or bags of sand near the tail-gate).

Find out your truck's tare (empty) weight on the scales for each axle (be sure to add in the weight of you, your significant-other, and your dog), and subtract that from the GAWR -- and the rest is what you can carry.

EG: Suppose GAWR = 4,800 for both of your axles; and your truck's tare weigh is 3,200 front and 2,300 rear. Further suppose a GVWR of 7,700#.

If you put a 1,000# lead blob in your truck bed half-way between the front and rear axles, you'd load each of your front and rear half of that, for a calculated truck weight of 3,700 front and 2,800 rear -- totalling 6,500# for the truck.

Note however that under this scenario you'd still have an additional capacity of 1,200# for the TRUCK (GVWR = 7,700# for this example).

You could load up to 1,100# more on the front or up to 1,200# more on the rear (not the 2,000# additional suggested by the rear axle's 4,800# GAWR -- because then you'd be over the 7,700# GVWR for the truck).

Therefore:

No matter how you calculate it, you overloaded your truck.

I once saw a bozo round a corner with his pickup truck loaded with dirt so high that he couldn't see out his rear-view mirror. He had bricks wedged between his axle and the frame -- and one of the bricks crushed and blew out of the fender-well dropping the truck's bed down on the tire and locking up the wheel.

I have no idea how they ultimately moved that truck from the street.



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Y2K™

XLT SC SB 5.4L 3.73LS

 

P.S.: The F-150 7700 is the replacement for the F-250LD -- how did your truck take the weight?

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Y2K™

XLT SC SB 5.4L 3.73LS

 

Remember Ford builts a margin of safety in whne they design these trucks.
They KNOW ppl will be overloading them from time to time, and as long as you don't load sand up higher than the rear view you should be OK.
If you find yourself overloading a lot buy a bigger truck.

 

truck did fine only drove about 3 miles home. Thanks for the information. I knew it was too much weight but the tile people did not care. Hope I didnt fry anything.



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98 F250 LD 5.4 dual exhaust, K&N, Big tires

 

I once picked up a skid of bricks. It wieghed 2437 pounds, plus the skid. I had the lift truck driver shove it all the way forward in the box, so the wieght was BETWEEN the axles, not over the back one. That's the important thing. Y2K77004x4, you are correct. With this load on my F150, it didn't appear to be overloading the springs, although they were way down. I also have much higher rated tires than factory (3042lbs load rating @ 80 PSI)
I drove home about twenty five miles, no problems, but I wouldn't wanna drive that load around every day!!!
The highest rated F150 is the shortbox reg cab 2WD, cause it's the lightest. It'll take around 2000lbs, rated from Ford. Mine, of course is the longest....lowest rated one.

Another time, I had 2200 lbs of steel on it, in log bars, and some had to come off, cause it WAS too much. It's all how you load 'em.

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I have a '98 F150 Ext Cab 4x4 w/ a 5.4L and towing package. The most weight I have ever had in the bed, was rougly around 3300-3400lbs. I had 40 bags of 80lb Quikrete, plus about 100 pieces of 1"x4" either 8' or 10' long. The truck hauled it fine, but the steering was VERY VERY light, the front tires were barely on the ground. Nothing broke, but I think it hurt the rear leafs. The rear seems to sit a little lower than the front, but it might be that the rear tires are bald and the front are new, or just my imagination. The truck runs great, no complaints.

 

Just unloaded 3500lbs. of crushed stone. She carried it well. At 75mph she got alittle squirrely but that just shows my stupidity!

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