F150 asa TV for 5th wheel

demiles wrote:

mhamershock wrote:

troubledwaters wrote:

demiles wrote:
FYI, The maximum pin weight you will find on a 2017-2018 F150 is 1755 lbs...

You making things up as you go? I have never seen any such thing as a "Maximum Pin Weight" spec.

LOL. My BS meter went off with this claim too.

OP - I have a 2018 F150 HDPP 3.5EB. Mine's a SCREW Lariat 6.5 box with 2400 lb payload. As set up with an ARE cap, I have 2000 lbs left on the 4800 RAWR. You can get over 3000 lb payload with the right Regular Cab config but you will have to custom order like I did. Done right, it should easily handle an 1800 lb pin. I wouldn't go that high on my config but it can be done. And the 3.5EB with 470 ft lb of torque is a fine motor.

Mike

Call it whatever you want but it’s no claim on my part, it came right from Ford. First from a Ford commercial truck salesman then a phone call to Ford. Your right they don’t come right out and say what the max pin weight is, which is the reason I asked in the first place. If you check any other manufacturers ratings you will find that the max pin weight is 15% of the 5th wheel TWR.

Not sure what you are trying to with the 15% but I don't think there is any 5er with a dry pin of 15%. Most 5er run with dry pin weight between about 18 and 22 percent. Since most the storage in forward of the wheels (their are a few exceptions) so the percentage goes up as you load up to camping. What is 15% is the pin weight that a truck manufacture uses to figure towing capacity. Take a 10,000 5er with 15% gives a pin 1500 so that when in some 1/2 tons but put the pin at more realistic percentage of 22% now you at 2200 pin weight which not only over almost all 1/2 tons but over a lot diesel 3/4 tons.