Need Advice
I purchased a 2010 F150 SuperCrew, that calculated to a payload of 1800 lbs. I purchased a 2018 Travel Lite truck camper that was labeled at 1280 lbs. I installed the Timken suspension enhanceme...
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jimh425 wrote:The weights I gave are for fully loaded with gear, fuel and people. Thank you
I’m sure someone has, but based on your post, you are almost double the payload of your truck.. If you are planning on only doing one trip, maybe you’ll be lucky just like the person who drove from Michigan to Yellowstone and back.
As far as can’t afford a F250 goes, there are large variations in prices of diesel vs gasoline. I’m not sure you can afford the wreck by leaving the rig you have. Also, consider a F350. You can go all of the way back to early 2000 and have a very capable gasoline proper sized truck.
The biggest danger you have is tires. They will be fine until they fail. Next, are your brakes. Since you are double the recommended payload, I don’t think it would be unusual for other components to fail as well.
Finally, you are severely limited in what you can carry with you being already way over payload. It doesn’t sound like fun to me.
