Payload rant (sort of)
I have a friend with a 2011 F250. I don't know a lot of details but it has the diesel for that year and 3.31 gears. He was looking to buy a fifth wheel after previously owning a 35 foot TT. Unfortunat...
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taken wrote:rhagfo wrote:
The reason the F250 is lower is the 17" tires rated at 3,195#, the F350 comes with 18" tires rated at3,525#.
One other point, even if the axle shafts were smaller, it would not affect carrying capacity of a full floating axle as the axle hub carries the weight not the shaft.
Most opt for the 18" wheels on a 250 as well. The point of all this being, yes, a 250 can be ordered with less capacity. It can also be ordered to be 100% identical to a SRW 350 and yet it's ratings will still be falsely lower on paper due to Ford marketing the 250 to the Class 2 market.
I guess similar to back in the muscle car glory days an engine like a 428 Cobra Jet or 426 Hemi indicated a much lower horsepower rating for insurance purposes.
