2011 Ford F150 and Travel Trailer
Newbie here and appreciate what I have gathered from this forum so far. Just looking for opinions from some experienced people. Have a 2011 Ford F150 Super Crew with 3.73 rear axel, 5.0 L V8, 4x4, 145...
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Your brothers right, not enough truck. If the delivered weight of your trailer is 7660 plus say around 1k of gear inside it puts you over 8500lbs ready to travel. The average tongue weight for trailers is around 13% which gives you at least 1100lbs in tongue weight (probably more)which counts against your trucks payload of 1440lbs.
If you have 800lbs of passengers and stuff in the truck, you only have 640lbs left for the tongue weight. You also have to account for the weight of the hitch (~75lbs)
800+1100+75=1975 lbs
1440-1975= 535lbs over weight
You're at least 500lbs over you trucks payload and that's probably a best case scenario. Since you already bought the trailer it would be a good idea to load it up and take it all to the scales.
If you have 800lbs of passengers and stuff in the truck, you only have 640lbs left for the tongue weight. You also have to account for the weight of the hitch (~75lbs)
800+1100+75=1975 lbs
1440-1975= 535lbs over weight
You're at least 500lbs over you trucks payload and that's probably a best case scenario. Since you already bought the trailer it would be a good idea to load it up and take it all to the scales.
