SmokemS

well i get a phone call from my father today and he says josh i need the diesel power today.....so without thinking i jumped up and went and helped him


this first pic is my dads 93 dodge 1500 with a 318 with over 300k on the engine

so we had to go to the shop and get the wrecker that our cousin lets us use which is a 93 3500 with a 360

and then finally we got the electric motors swapped out and put in the ol diesel..


she doesn't squat as much as my dads poor 1500


it came out to be 3520 of dead weight in the bed and we go almost a grand for the junk...yay that is just money

MoparMarv

what size tires are those? sort of what I'm looking for.

kiszka6911

I got one of those calls last year. My father in law says, I putting up chain link fence around my property. Can you bring the truck and trailer down to lowes. So 52, 80 lb cement bags in the bed and many rolls of chain line fence on the trailer we were on our way. The kid at lowes says are you sure you can handle it?

wannadiesel

Leveled 'er out real nice.

That poor gasser had to be sitting on the bumpstops. How far did he drive it like that?

u.s mma

my 87 half ton dodge saw a few loads like that, not very bright but a learning expierence. my current ride handles loads like that great. Do you have stock springs? I had to replace the stockers in my truck, worn out couldn't describe them.

SmokemS

they are 315x75x16 bf m/ts and yes dave the truck was on the stoppers and he only drove maybe 5 miles like that....i drove about 50 miles give or take some....and everything underneath is stock.....and every hill i took i didnt go below 65 i had plenty of petal left but i like to keep things safe

kiszka6911

I have new skyjackers and timbrens on the rear. We had to modify the timbren brackets to get them to be effective at the correct loads.

daking

hu, you think thats bad, i work at a garden center, and you know how y idiots we get there,

on time a guy with a dodge 1/2 came in and asked for a yard of gravel (2500pounds), snaped the frame in half, glad we warned him before,

another time we had a guy come in a 2002 chevy extream, the pimped out s10, nice looking truck he tells us to load a yard of soil (1100+pounds, it was wet too so 1350pounds), and he draged his bumper all the way home, you should of seen the sparks coming of that bumper, i bet it fell off before he got home, oh and it wasnt him that wanted it it was his wife

archer39

kinda looks like the load of wood i had on the back of my truck the other day. the pile was a bit higher though.

Free89W350

Yeah I pulled one of those STUPID moves once with my old 91 half ton. I had 32 10' railroad ties piled in the back. It was sitting on the bump stops after 15 but no I had to see if I could put all of them in the bed . I did and then I proceeded to make the 7.5 mile journey to the drop off point. It was at night and I was running low beams but the front end of the was pointing in the air so much I kept getting flashed the high beams from every car I passed. The one thing that I was happy about was that none of the Pa. State Troopers were outside when I went past the barracks or I was going to jail for sure.

mr300x11

I hauled two full pallets of 12"x12" ceramic floor tile and 20 90lbs bags of thin set and to top it of 20 bags of grout.
truck dropped 5" and the forklift operator said that my old truck couldnt handle it. He was very surprised.
Drove 30 miles on the hwy at 65mph no problem.

GLHS

Kiszka; How much are those timbrens and do they compress much once they start touching?
The most I've hauled is 6000 lbs of 1" rock. No overloads but it did touch the bumpstops.
I have also hauled 88 sheets of 1/2" x 8' drywall.

b1eric

I did some junk removal at work one day last summer. My front springs are saged so it was hard to guess how loaded i was. The scale sheet said 5720 lbs sure didnt look that heavy.

haloman

Didn't load her down hardly.

archer2

Just out of curiosity, what's the empty weight of a W-250 standard cab?