Hi

I am thinking of putting a plow on my 92. I am concerned that it is too much weight for the front end to handle. I am thinking about an 8-9' plow that weighs about 750lbs.

Anyone have any input? Did you do something to beef up your front end?

Thank you
Dean

 

I'm looking right now at a 90 gas with a 9' plow on it. I only assuming that with the diesel it has suspension upgrades that will allow you to take that plow on.

 

my 3/4ton handles a 9' fisher plow no problem. the truck, a former municipality truck, used to push an 11ft funnel plow around town where i live clearing town streets. needless to say, it lived a hard life

 

I have a 92 and a 93 with a western uni-mount setup on them, but only 1 8 foot western plow. I know for a fact the 93 had the plow on it from 1994 by looking at the plow paper work.
As far as I know there has been nothing done to the front ends, original springs, etc...

 

I added two extra leaves and rearched the front springs to carry the weight 1000 + pounds of the blizzard. It raised the front of the truck 3 inches initially but should settle around 2" higher. When I lift the plow the truck drops 1.5 inches.

 

Generally an 8' plow is well suited for these trucks. I have had a bunch of em and they take the weight ok. A 9' is pushing it in my opinion and will really start to put a hurtin on the frontend.If you carry the plow around as little as possible and put some weight in the bed you'll be fine.

 

I have a meyers 7.5 on mine. It could use new springs since it sags a little in the front all the time. Also the plow has only been for private use. Otherwise it seems to hold up fine to the weight.

 

Wow, thanks for the responses.

I will get a plow for it. I hate snowblowing

Dean

 

bigger is better


https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...d.php?t=178691

 

I got a 9ft fisher on the front of my 93, she loves it, plows great and rides great with it on, a little wieght in the back does help though. The front end is real tight on it too, to my surprise

 

I have had a 7.5 meyers on both my 91 w150 and a 87 Ramcharger (and also western unimount on a 90 and 94 Dakota) with the stock suspension on my 1/2 tons thay sagged a little and I am in the process of putting a Ultra Mount Western on my 89 W350 but that truck has Air bags in the Front. I say in the process because Western doesn't make a Ultramount for the truck so I have to make my own. I really wish I would have done this in the summer insead of waiting until it started to snow out

 

I hear ya there Ryan, Last year I fabbed my own Meyer mount in about 3 different snowstorms.