OK, all you truck wonks...
... answer me this. Why are diesel engines only available in F250s, 2500, etc.? Why can't they be put into the smaller F150s and 1500s? (I know about the payload deficiencies of the 1500, so tha...
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Lynnmor wrote:4x4ord wrote:
What is the advantage of building a capable truck and then reducing its carrying capacity by robbing the overload springs off the rear axle? I can see a person say I don't want a long box dually because it won't fit in my garage or I need better traction in the snow or i don't like the looks or what ever else they might say but why would anyone say I would rather have a 3/4 ton than a 1 ton SRW when the two trucks are virtually identical, only one has had the sticker on the door changed so it can not haul nearly as much as the other.
Keep in mind that many states will whack you much harder each year for taxes or tags. You can beef up an F250 to carry as much as the F350 and the state doesn't need to know.
Actually Ford has 3 different 1 ton srw trucks. 1 has the overload spring and a gvwr of 11500 lbs; one they change only the gvwr sticker to read 10,000 lbs (it is a no charge option they call their 10,000 lb gvwr package); and one they remove the sticker and the overload springs and call it an F250.
