Yes, add up the (real) tongue weight, all passengers, and all cargo that you intend to haul in the truck and in the bed of the truck. Also, when calculating the tongue weight, need to add in items that will be in the very front of the camper in the cargo storage areas, this will also add some weight to the tongue. My ex-truck had really nice 20 inch rims and low profile tires and that hurt my payload capacity.
I traded up to a 2006 F-250 V10 FX4 Crew Cab with 4.30 gears, now I can load up like crazy and be well under this trucks payload. The difference on the sticker price between the F-150 and F-250 was only $2,000.
https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=6941

 

You should be ok pulling it BUT you should CK out the brakes
that much TT needs good brakes. no mater how fast you go you still have to STOP

 

Yea I'll definately check out the breaks on it before any long trip. They should be good to go though. I towed my boat around this weekend and its about 7000lbs loaded and the truck pulled it with no problems and brought it to a stop alot faster than the yukon we have ever did.

 

What, and end up like this guy?

 

SWEET

 

I pull at KZ Frontier 2505. It weighs about 5000lbs empty and has a total axle weight of 7000lbs. I tow with tanks empty but with some gear. Probably weights closer to 6500lbs if it is going to be a long stay.

Truck tows it fine. Still get 10mpg too! Far more stable than when I towed this rig with my Sequoia.

I looked at 3/4 tons......but for the 8 times a year that I tow the camper, that means the other 350 days a year I would have to be driving one of those big ole things every day. Besides....wouldn't fit in my garage.

I have used an F250 one time to move this trailer about 30 miles. I will tell you that it handled it no better than my 150....but then again it was a gasser.

Hook up and enjoy.

 

That opening remark was pretty funny... and all too true.

Colorado is right on. I think 5k is a comfortable tow for an F-150. If you have a 4x4 with tow package, better gears, etc., you might be able to get close to 6k and still feel safe, have some margin, stay under your weight capacities, etc. But anything more than that is 3/4 ton time.

 

I have pulled this all over east tennessee and the smokey mountains... not real fast mind you but it pulls well and stops well also...https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=4704