Halt Ton Towing
We recently purchased a 2011 Toyota Tundra CrewMax Platinum Edition with the 5.7 Engine, Towing Package, 20 inch wheels and it has the 5.6 Bed. The Tundra is rated to tow 10,000 lb. I'm having the tir...
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atlgagent57 wrote:
I'm curious where you got those figures. I've never seen these before and I thought I had researched this every where I could. I'm going to weigh it this weekend. I think I'll be less than a 1000 lb over the GVWR. I'm sure I'm okay on the GCVWR. You mentioned you did it for a couple of years until you got sick of it. What were the issues?
If you have a 1/2 ton that is any where near 1,000# over GVWR you have some serious issues!!
Springs, brakes, Rear Axle, I will give you a pass on tires as you upgraded to E's.
Toyota still uses a semi floating axle, so all you have is one small wheel bearing riding on the axle to support that over load, not my cup of tea.
Just because you can get it to set level with adding Timbers (or Air Bags) doesn't change the design on the rear axle, still a weak semi floating unit.
Tundra's and newer F150 are physically big but light, which means they don't have physical strength to handle that load.
Can't wait to see the scale results, we might all be surprised.
I have never owned a 1/2 ton semi floating rear axle pickup for a reason!
