96 f350 dually extended cab diesel

Interesting discussion. Worked with two F series trucks, long box extended cab, one a SRW 460 one a dually diesel. Camper 3000#, extended hitch and small cargo trailer, both trucks felt light in the front with as produced front springs. I chose to use 351 gasser springs with air bags, set alignment with camper on, tire wear OK and truck drives nice, air bags on the stock rear suspension.

My 2000 F350 weighs 8500lbs and GVWR is 11,200. That's only 2700lbs, your truck can carry more.And yet without the stableloads my overloads aren't even being used yet.

U.F.O. wrote:
I own a 97 the same as what you got. the truck weights 6600lbs on dot scales gross weight is 10000. so that gives you approx 3400 lbs. with my eagle cap 950 i am 10800 or so with my gear hope that helps.

Doesn't seem like it carries that much weight, with the weight of todays truck campers does it?
Thanks for the insight. Is that with no mods to the suspension? Thanks in advance.

I own a 97 the same as what you got. the truck weights 6600lbs on dot scales gross weight is 10000. so that gives you approx 3400 lbs. with my eagle cap 950 i am 10800 or so with my gear hope that helps.

Kayteg1 wrote:
I don't think short bed duallies exist, do they?
You started the topic saying about camper, but what exactly you are planning?
Don't think you can find cabover camper that will overweight dually, but as I experienced, fully blown camper with holding tanks in the rear can easily put your set to test.
I bought the camper with F250 and even with the best tires I could buy and airbags, driving over the scales with empty camper made my hair standing.
Again, it is not the weight itself as I was carrying 5000lb of gravel on F250 just fine, but weight distribution.

I am just worried about trucks back in those years even duallies not having that great of a payload, you know like a one ton truck carried about one ton or not much more. Maybe I am over thinking this or just confused. P.S. I thought when you were talking about wheel base you were referring to bed length sorry about that.

I don't think short bed duallies exist, do they?
You started the topic saying about camper, but what exactly you are planning?
Don't think you can find cabover camper that will overweight dually, but as I experienced, fully blown camper with holding tanks in the rear can easily put your set to test.
I bought the camper with F250 and even with the best tires I could buy and airbags, driving over the scales with empty camper made my hair standing.
Again, it is not the weight itself as I was carrying 5000lb of gravel on F250 just fine, but weight distribution.

Kayteg1 wrote:
I had several duallies and you do have to do a lot of homework if you want to do what their capacity is.
First forget about door sticker and official ratings. They are made for tax-saving purposes and have not much to do with technical design.
So first thing to check is tire ratings.
Some duallies come with bigger wheels and my F450 had tires rated for holding 23,000 lb,
With 8900lb flatbed weight, that calculates to nice payload, but the main issue was weight distribution.
Most of those trucks till F550 are build as grocery getters with short wheel base.
That makes long overhang and most of standard loads will not put weight on front wheels and campers usually will take the weight off front wheels, while overloading the rears.
The only way I could get close to using full payload capacity on flatbed was a forklift loaded with counterweight right behind the cabin.
All other loads had to be significantly lighter to avoid front wheels in the air.
My camper is 4200 lb dry while my F350 has long wheelbase as originally it come with 10' utility bed.
I am comfortable with the setup without air bags, but those should be consider as well.

This dually is a long bed does that help

I had several duallies and you do have to do a lot of homework if you want to do what their capacity is.
First forget about door sticker and official ratings. They are made for tax-saving purposes and have not much to do with technical design.
So first thing to check is tire ratings.
Some duallies come with bigger wheels and my F450 had tires rated for holding 23,000 lb,
With 8900lb flatbed weight, that calculates to nice payload, but the main issue was weight distribution.
Most of those trucks till F550 are build as grocery getters with short wheel base.
That makes long overhang and most of standard loads will not put weight on front wheels and campers usually will take the weight off front wheels, while overloading the rears.
The only way I could get close to using full payload capacity on flatbed was a forklift loaded with counterweight right behind the cabin.
All other loads had to be significantly lighter to avoid front wheels in the air.
My camper is 4200 lb dry while my F350 has long wheelbase as originally it come with 10' utility bed.
I am comfortable with the setup without air bags, but those should be consider as well.

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I found SRW, GVWR = 9200 lbs. Still looking for DRW.