at work yesterday, haulin 400 gallons of water


3300 lbs was testin the limits of that 3/4 ton suspension haha, nothin broke tho

 

needs airbags

 

yeah i know, either that or a whole crap load of add a leafs

 

get some Timbrens........cheaper and just as effective

400 gals of H2O is 3200 lbs

 

i would if at all possible move the water tank further towards the front to try to even out the load. they make shocks that have helper springs built into them though if your intrested. my buddy put them on his suburban and it raised the stance in the rear while loaded by about two inches. i think they are made by monroe or something

 

yeah but they deffinately aren't cheap... a nice set of airbags would be about the same price

 

that takes me back, i carried bout 4k worth of sheet metal in my truck one

 

 

overloading is just a thing of our trucks lifes... i wish i could spew some of the numbers that my cousin has hauled with her 24v... alls i know is they manage to fit a whole barn on a decent sized gooseneck... somewhere along the lines of if they were weighed she'd have a HUGE fine... poor differential tho; you over load things that bad you start warping the housing and increasing bearing wear. its unbelievable what that truck put up with; said and done it staill ran and they traded it in on her 06

 

i had about 1600 pounds in my bed of all scrap once dropped my truck about 2 and a half inches