Freaking Low Payload

It’s by far my favorite truck.

 

Can you tell us the problems you've had?, just curious.

 

With the Ford the biggest problem so far is the transmission. Bring back the 6 speed. Unloaded its fine. Loaded it sucks. You wanna talk about some high trans temps when a transmission decides it doesn’t want to lock the torque converter and then it does want to lock it and back and forth. Oh and drive usually means go forward right? I’ve lost track how many times you put it in drive and give it throttle and it goes backwards. So now it’s drive. Foot hard on the brake with some throttle…tries to go forward…good ok let’s go.

 

I'm sure there are thousands of accidents where the individual is over payload but the majority are not ending up in civil court. Circumstance would have to be gross negligence like towing way over the GVWR and followed up with speeding and drunk driving. My point being the court system would be over loaded if TT owners were being dragged into a civil lawsuit for being a couple hundred pounds over GVWR.

....but what do I know but I did sleep at a Holiday in last night.

We need lawyer to comment on civil suit litigation.

 

This truck tries to go BACKWARD when you’re in DRIVE??? Lolololol

 

Oh it succeeds at this endeavor.

 

I’m not sure how heavy I would be willing to go on my HD gasser. I’m at about 7,500lbs loaded along with some extra stuff in the bed. Does fine on the hills if I have momentum but if I get stuck behind someone it isn’t easy accelerating up a hill. Not sure if I would be happy towing a 10k+ fifth wheel with it. Although I wonder how much it might help to regear from 3.73 to 4.30.

 

BX23S is boulder moving champion.

 

This is interesting, I have 2020 F350 7.3 , 3.73 gear 10 speed an I haven't had any issues going on over 8k miles now. I love it. Makes towing so much less painfull then the Tundra 6 speed constantly having the engine winding out trying get anywhere, having to run in S4 ect . I'm not in the rocky's here but I haven't had any issues at all towing my 7-8k lb TT in the white mountains.. I have read that the new 10 speeds had some issues though from other folks, seems a bit hit or miss . Guess I got lucky so far..

 

White Mountains? We must be neighbors!

 

I think they have a recall on that transmission on some of the years, yours may not be one of them. From the description of the recall its pretty extensive and requires them to open the transmission up to fix.

I was looking at the 7.3 earlier this year as well. I am trying to avoid big 3 issues and depreciation if I can help it.

 

Depreciation is not an issue with 3/4 ton and 1 ton trucks. I'm a multiline adjuster and can tell you from experience that they hold their value pretty darn good, now on a 1/2 big three truck its a different story

 

That is not my experience with 3/4 ton or 1 ton gas trucks, Diesels I would agree with you, but diesels come with their own set of issues that I really don't want to deal with unless the truck is making me money. Everything is holding its value now, go back a few years ago and look at HD gassers. Ram in particular compared to Toyota...any Toyota... If you run identical packages on Ram 1500/2500 gasser the depreciation on the 1500 is actually less

 

Good luck with that.

 

Right!....I'm gonna make something work with the Tundra, I have taken a bath before with a domestic truck and I won't do that again. I'm just waiting to see what the new tundra specs are before I decide on new Gen or old Gen. I haven't decided yet if I am going to trade the Tacoma I have now on it or just keep it and have both. I can make arguments for both ways.

 

Hopefully the new Tundra will address the payload issue so some of us don't have to go with a crap domestic. It's a big pill to swallow buying a unreliable but more towing capable domestic over the Tundra.

 

You can address payload with the current Tundra. Trailer design or modifications can do a whole bunch of stuff to tongue weight and trailer weight. Take a 30' steel Trailer and compare it to a 30' aluminum trailer for example. Take a 4' tongue and compare it to a 5.5' tongue, there are lots of options.

 

5 grand and fixed. Much cheaper than buying that 3/4 Ton. Not to mention, you can keep the truck you like and still pull more than enough trailer for your glamping expeditions if that's your thing.

 

Can you please provide more info on this "snubber"? That is simply interesting to me.

 

Wonder what that thing is like to back up?

 

I would think it is similar to backing doubles/triples. I know I'm not very good at it at all. The back trailer is all over the place when backing!

 

If it's like the one I saw you can lock the articulated portion. And its motorized so you can position a trailer without the vehicle.

 

That looks fun to back up!

 

Google trailer toad and go from there

 

Straighten it out, drop the pins to lock it, back up like normal. If me, I would still load 500-800 lbs on the truck rear axle to maintain good traction. Let's face it pushing or pulling any kind of weight with poor traction could lead to problems and the whole idea is to mitigate the problems.