adding weight for the sake of adding weight is a poor choice, unless you are pulling/grudge pulling. have you considered adjusting your tire pressure?

 

well i might do pulling to idk yet maybe i just want more weight in my pickup in the rearend. maybe i get on my pickup a little to much. i can't adjust them to much i have to pull a gooseneck too. hauling hay. so i don't really want to adjust them every couple days.

 

yeah tire pressure is a pain on an empty truck, you could mount a compresser in the bed, that will give you weight and the ability to change the pressure when you want. also you could try and cut some tracktor tubes in half and fill with dirt or sand. they should fit nice right over the wheel wells, and give you a couple hundred pounds. could also find a real large flat steel plate and cut out for the gooseneck. prolly be kinda expensive, but will get you lots of lbs.

 

if you haul hay, what about just putting a heavy *** steel flatbed on the back?

adds weight, looks good, and makes fits more hay per load!

 

yeah that would work good, didn't think of that. 2nd gens look real good with a flat bed

 

i might be putting a flatbed on it sometime my bed is falling apart damn dodge.

 

best part is you can pick up steel flatbeds for dirt. at least where i im at i got a gorgeous one i sold today that was perfect for only 300 bucks with a massive headache rack

 

haha ya i know where a couple are at but think i'm going to have a clutch first then some valve springs i guess its never ending. and i'm going to start building some traction bars in welding sometime soon

 

I know I'm a little late on this one, but add traction bars for the traction, and a good heavy duty bumper on the rear built with some beefy steel...that way the weight is as far back as you can reasonably get it in reference to the rear axle. I did that on my '88 Ford and made a big difference in wet traction and "one tire fires"...

Just my two cents...

 

i have a back bumper that ways bout 150 i'm bout to fill the tubes in it with something.