can I increase my tow vehicle's tow rating
am confused. just read in july. manufacturer's use engine power for tow rating but further states if you improve performance it won't improve tow rating?
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If the factory changes the equipment to heavier springs or axles the rating goes up.
If you do the same, it doesn’t. Because, we all bow to The Great Yellow Sticker.
Yeah right.
I once swapped the entire frame in my old F150 to one from an F250. I put in springs from an F350 and the 3/4 ton front and rear axles.
The body still had “F150” emblems on it and I didn’t change the doors or glovebox lid.
According to the geniuses here, I didn’t increase its rating.
And because an engineer didn’t tell me how to do it (as if he’d even know!!!) I obviously don’t know what I was doing.
I think if you’ve never built a car or truck, you have little business giving advice on subjects like this.
You don’t know what the parts are and what’s different and what’s the same.
All you know is brochure propaganda.
On big trucks, you increase the rating when you add drop axles or a heavier front end and super singles. When guy upgrade the right things on a smaller truck, same thing.
If you do the same, it doesn’t. Because, we all bow to The Great Yellow Sticker.
Yeah right.
I once swapped the entire frame in my old F150 to one from an F250. I put in springs from an F350 and the 3/4 ton front and rear axles.
The body still had “F150” emblems on it and I didn’t change the doors or glovebox lid.
According to the geniuses here, I didn’t increase its rating.
And because an engineer didn’t tell me how to do it (as if he’d even know!!!) I obviously don’t know what I was doing.
I think if you’ve never built a car or truck, you have little business giving advice on subjects like this.
You don’t know what the parts are and what’s different and what’s the same.
All you know is brochure propaganda.
On big trucks, you increase the rating when you add drop axles or a heavier front end and super singles. When guy upgrade the right things on a smaller truck, same thing.
