ford f-150

If others are smart they stay within the weight limits.

Dry weights mean nothing.
You really have to understand some basic facts. Tow rating is based on a base trim level stripped truck with 1/4 tank of gas and one 150 pound driver. Anything more than that you subtract from the towing rating. Next, manufacturers get that rating by towing a flat bed trailer with XX pounds of weight on it. When you start trying to tow a big box behind your truck those numbers should go down significantly. Wind resistance takes it's toll in a big hurry.

You need not be so concerned for the "stock" weights on Fords site. You need to be more concerned about your specific truck. First thing you need to do is look at the yellow sticker on your drivers door. These are specific ratings for your truck. There will be a number that shows you the max cargo capacity of your truck. This number is how much cargo your truck can handle. This number includes a tank of gas (26 gallons) and the driver weight. Any other weight you add will have to be deducted from this weight. So that is weight in the bed of the truck, other passengers and the hitch weight of the trailer and the weight of any WDH you will add.

There will also be weights for front and rear axle.

You will find you will run out of cargo weight WAY before you run out of trailer weight.

Now you mentioned dry weight of the camper, you should look at the GVWR of the camper, this is what your camper will weigh when loaded down with stuff, propane etc. The hitch weight will be any where from 13 - 15% of this GVWR.

Not knowing which trailer you are looking at you can figure that a dry weight of 6300lbs you might be looking at 7500 - 8000lb GVWR. And that would give you a hitch weight of close to 900-950 lbs.

You have the trailer tow package which is standard and you will find some of the people towing on here with the EB have the max tow package which gives you more room to play with. Plus a different real axle ratio of 3.73.

So start with looking at your yellow sticker and lets go from there.

Ford vers Dodge.

my dodge with a standard V6 has a Max tow of 3300 lbs..

your is 9000.. I do not think this is correct.

Chuck_thehammer wrote:
Ford vers Dodge.

my dodge with a standard V6 has a Max tow of 3300 lbs..

your is 9000.. I do not think this is correct.

The V6 ECOBOOST has a huge tow rating. It's not a typo. There is a difference between the F150 V6 and the F150 V6 Ecoboost.

Chuck_thehammer wrote:
Ford vers Dodge.

my dodge with a standard V6 has a Max tow of 3300 lbs..

your is 9000.. I do not think this is correct.

He is correct. Ford's 3.5L V6 Ecoboost is a pulling machine. My 3.5L is rated to pull 11,300 lbs. with the max tow package. It pulls my 32' camper around effortlessly. I'm excited to pull it to Florida from Ohio one of these days.

Scrap the "dry weight" number and use the GVWR as the number and watch your tongue weight and payload.

pappcam wrote:
Scrap the "dry weight" number and use the GVWR as the number and watch your tongue weight and payload.

There is some good advice in the above quote by Papcam.

You don't go off of "dry weight" becuase loaded up and ready to go camping you will likely be 1000-1500lbs over the dry weight.

A good rule of thumb is to use the GVWR of the trailer (the max weight rating for the trailer, with cargo) against the tow rating of your tow vehicle.

I like to stay around 80% (GVWR Versus tow rating) if possible for good towing performance. I know some will disagree with this philosophy and that's OK, this is just what works for me.

IE - the GVWR of my Layton TT is 6,000, the tow rating of my 00 Expy EB I believe is 6950, so currently I'm between 85-88%. My Expy handles the Layton OK, but I would not want to ask much more of it.

Good luck.

I regularly tow over 10500 lb with my ecoboost v6 (trailer and cargo) and it does the job easily. My tow rating is 11,300 lb. If you tow in the mountains you are going to love climbing those 7% grades in 4th gear.

Obviously unless you plan on dragging around a completely empty trailer, the dry weight is a useless number so look at gvwr.
Good luck / skip

Welcome to the forum!

How many people are you hauling in the SCREW? I fully agree with love2rvcamp - 1/2 ton trucks run out of payload (especially SCREW cabs) before running out of trailer rating. Yes, we need the payload and GVW numbers off your yellow sticker.

Are you sure about the 9200# rating? 3.5L EB, 4X4, SCREW, 3.31 gears show 8,000 or 8100# in my 2012 brochure.