meaz93

Seriously. ...that's not a lot of weight for a Boost. I pull an 8k+ Keystone Springdale TT that is 33' long with a WDH and airlifters. The truck is stable and pulls it easily. The brakes are excellent on the 14 F150 and of course the trailer breaks are their as well. I have the 3:73 with factory tow package. I've NEVER had an issue with safety or with the truck handling the weight.
The F150 is an amazing tow vehicle-period. :IMO:

Biggles

Your truck may be able to pull it, but I'm betting you're way over your payload limit.

smokeywren

Then assume wet and loaded trailer weight of 9,000 pounds and hitch weigh at 15% of 9,000 pounds, or 1,350 pounds.


Sounds like a SuperCrew 4x2 shorty with GCWR of 15,300 pounds and GVWR of 7,100 pounds.


Your EcoBoost drivetrain will be able to PULL that 9,000-pound trailer with no problem. But you'll be severely overloaded over the GVWR of the F-150. IOW, you have enough power and torque to pull the loaded trailer, but you don't have enough suspension and brakes to safely HAUL the hitch weight of that much trailer. Plus your receiver is probably rated for no more than 1,050 pounds hitch weigh with a WD hitch, so if you have actual wet and loaded hitch weight of 1,350 pounds, your receriver will be dangerously overloaded.


My similar SuperCrew 4x2 with 6.5' bed is overloaded over the GVWR of the tow vehicle (TV) with my TT that grosses 4,870 pounds including 650 pounds hitch weight.


Good plan.


Drastically decrease the weight and tongue weight of the TT. There's nothing you can do to increase the GVWR and payload capacity of your F-150.

You can add air bags in the rear suspension to hide the symptoms of being overloaded, but you'll still be overloaded.


Tires won't help. My 265/60R18 tires are good for up to 4,542 pounds on the rear axle, but the rGAWR is only 3,850. So there are other items besides tires that are limiting the rGAWR - probably the third member (axle/differential). So increasing the tire weight capacity won't do anything to increase rGAWR.


You nailed it. Ford makes F-150s that can safely tow that trailer without being overloaded, but yours (and mine) ain't one of them. If your F-150 had the heavy duty payload package with 8,200 pound GVWR, then you could probably safely tow that trailer.

Firedaniel

Doesnt a weight distribution hitch help get the weight off the rear axle? Also the axle is the same on the trucks. Just a different gear set. anyways...

After picking it up this weekend the sticker on this one shows 7400 dry. 9100 max load. I dont know why its less than the other one i was looking at on line. I think I will go get it weighed at a truck stop and see how it comes in. I dont think it is going to be bad as originally thought. It will probably be right at the max towing capacity when all is said and done. We will see. It pulled better behind the diesel than my old trailer which weighed in less than 6k lbs. Regardless we had a blast in it! Thanks everyone for their help!

king nothing

I wouldnt hesitate to pull that trailer with my max-tow f150, but probably not with a 7200gvw truck. If yoy have an F350 why not just use that?

smokeywren

Yes, a little, but not enough to make much difference as to how much trailer you can tow without exceeding the GVWR of the tow vehicle.


A properly-adjusted WD hitch will distribute about 15% to 25% of the gross tongue weight back to the trailer axles. ..fine tuning the hitch to get 25% weight distribution to the trailer axles is a time-consuming and expensive chore, requiring many trips across a CAT scale. Most of us settle for 20% or less. Mine's at 19% now. So if your hitch is adjusted to distribute 20% of the tongue weight back to the trailer axles, and your gross tongue weight is 1,350 pounds, that still leaves 1,080 pounds of hitch weight that adds to the GVW of the tow vehicle. My F-150 is overloaded over the GVWR with net hitch weight of 527 pounds remaining on the truck's axles, so imagine how much overloaded you will probably be with 1,080 pounds of hitch weight left on the truck's axles.

Firedaniel

Well I hitched up the new RV and weight distribution and it didnt look good at all. It was way to heavy in the rear end. Tires squated too. I was going to take it and get weighed and the trailer tires swapped out for new Maxxis but decided I didnt like the way it was sitting so I hitched it to the F350 and away we went.

This truck would need some serious suspension help to tow that trailer.

meaz93

That sounds like when I had to tow my 8k Springdale TT with the wife's Tahoe when the Titan blasted a tranny hose on the way to Flagstaff. It did not like it one bit! :frown:

Firedaniel

Thats a good way to put it. I could do it but it doesnt like it!

I got to say then alot of the campers i see being towed with the F150 probably shouldnt be...

Red13

I would not tow that with my 5.0 that is some weight.