Over weight? Does it bother you?
From spending time in here lots of people have said that they were over weight with the camper. I'm over weight. Does it worry you? Does it keep you from going where you want to go? How much ...
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Does it bother me? No, not now.
The truck and camper in my sig is a few hundred lbs over 14K, so it’s technically overloaded. But, as has been discussed many times before, the F450 pickup GVWR is intentionally capped at 14K to keep it a class 3 so it won’t compete with the cab and chassis F450. I used to have a 2010 F450, and can tell you that the frame, suspension, and axles were the same, and it had a GVWR of 14.5K. I never weighed it with the camper on, but I suspect it was just under 14.5.
My previous truck that hauled this camper was a 1995 F350 CC DRW with a GVWR of 10K. It scaled at over 12.6K with all our gear loaded for a long trip, and as shown in the pic below, I wasn’t worried about it either.
The truck by itself weighed 7280 lbs with two people and full fuel tanks. With the camper loaded, the front axle weight went up by less than 50 lbs. But at least it went up, not down.
There’s a lot that can’t be seen in the picture though that contributed to my “no worries” attitude. In addition to the Alcoa Hotshot wheels and Michelin XPS tires that you can see, the inner wheels on the rear axle were higher rated Accuride steel from the F450 van of that generation. I had two extra leafs in the overload springs and airbags, plus Rancho 9000 shocks. The brakes had been improved somewhat, but there was only so much you could do with the rear drum brakes. I put a US Gear exhaust brake on it to keep from using the service brakes so much on long downhill grades.
Before doing all that (and many more performance upgrades), I was looking at newer trucks. Ford was in the 6.0 Powerstroke era by then, and I chose to sit it out. When the F450 pickups came out, I jumped on one as soon as I could afford to because as far as I was concerned they had everything I was wanting on a heavy TC hauler and then some. Higher rated axles, better brakes, 19.5’s, exhaust brake, and a much tighter turning radius. The only thing I didn’t like about the 2010 was the 6.4 Powerstroke, which is why I have a 2016 now.
:):)
The truck and camper in my sig is a few hundred lbs over 14K, so it’s technically overloaded. But, as has been discussed many times before, the F450 pickup GVWR is intentionally capped at 14K to keep it a class 3 so it won’t compete with the cab and chassis F450. I used to have a 2010 F450, and can tell you that the frame, suspension, and axles were the same, and it had a GVWR of 14.5K. I never weighed it with the camper on, but I suspect it was just under 14.5.
My previous truck that hauled this camper was a 1995 F350 CC DRW with a GVWR of 10K. It scaled at over 12.6K with all our gear loaded for a long trip, and as shown in the pic below, I wasn’t worried about it either.
The truck by itself weighed 7280 lbs with two people and full fuel tanks. With the camper loaded, the front axle weight went up by less than 50 lbs. But at least it went up, not down.
There’s a lot that can’t be seen in the picture though that contributed to my “no worries” attitude. In addition to the Alcoa Hotshot wheels and Michelin XPS tires that you can see, the inner wheels on the rear axle were higher rated Accuride steel from the F450 van of that generation. I had two extra leafs in the overload springs and airbags, plus Rancho 9000 shocks. The brakes had been improved somewhat, but there was only so much you could do with the rear drum brakes. I put a US Gear exhaust brake on it to keep from using the service brakes so much on long downhill grades.
Before doing all that (and many more performance upgrades), I was looking at newer trucks. Ford was in the 6.0 Powerstroke era by then, and I chose to sit it out. When the F450 pickups came out, I jumped on one as soon as I could afford to because as far as I was concerned they had everything I was wanting on a heavy TC hauler and then some. Higher rated axles, better brakes, 19.5’s, exhaust brake, and a much tighter turning radius. The only thing I didn’t like about the 2010 was the 6.4 Powerstroke, which is why I have a 2016 now.
:):)
