Scott Bryan

I just recently bought a 2015 F150 with the 2.7 ecoboost super crew cab 4x4. Will It be possible to tow my existing 37 ft rv that has 3 slides and weighs aprox. 12,200 lbs, if I do some upgrades to the rear suspension?

RobertP

Well I'm sure it would move it, but u would need atleast a 3.5 ecoboost, but that's a heavy camper, there is prolly only one cab configuration that would prolly even come close to be right, for one I'm sure your pin weight is prolly 1500 lbs and im guessing u have a 8.8 rear end im sure the rear end would be way over its load, idunno what else to say on this I'd say u prolly need a bigger truck and I'm not one to ever say that but I think a 2.7 max tow is around 8000lbs

tsigwing

not very good planning on your part.

PawPaw

That kind of weight is F-250 territory...I wouldn't tow over 9K pounds with a F-150 even with max towing.

KR Kodi

iTrader: (1)

Hi, and welcome to the forum!!

Butt....on your first post you're not supposed to pull our leg with an absolutely massively overweight scenario with a HUGE trailer that can't be pulled by ANY F150!!!

That trailer is SOOOOOOO overweight for your truck that don't even think of trying to hook it up.

First of all, I believe that the 2.7L EB SCrew with 4x4 will have a 145" wb (5.5 foot bed). It's possible to pull a 5th wheel with that short-bed truck, but it's very problematic.

Second of all, take a look at the 2015 Towing Guide:

http://www.fleet.ford.com/resources/...Tgde_Sep30.pdf


Scroll down to page 17 to see the F150 5th wheel specs. You can see the Max Loaded Trailer Weight for a fiver is 7300 lbs - YOU'RE 5000 LBS OVER THAT!!!!!!!!!

And those max trailer weight numbers are totally BS anyway, because they are for a truck with ZERO options, and nothing in the cab or bed except a 150 lb driver!!!

You can see the GCWR for your truck looks like it's 12,800 lbs. How much does your truck weigh????????

If your trailer weighs 12,200 lbs, that leaves you a total weight your truck can weigh of 600 lbs!!!!!!!!!!! I bet your truck is more like 5,600 lbs!!!

Scroll down to the next page, page 18, and you can see that you're barely within the capability of a 6.2L gas engined F250 or F350 - you would definitely need the 4.30 rear end in a gasser SuperDuty.

What you really need for a 12,200 lb fiver is a SuperDuty with the 6.7L diesel.

Bottom line - thanks for a laugh from your first post here on the F150 forum!!!

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meaz93

That's a monster trailer for sure.....you'd never make it up a 6% grade let alone down one....."safely".
Step back, really think about this one. Than go purchase a 6.7
I'm having overheating issues pulling 33' 8k Springdale TT....long story. Point is...the cooling system cannot keep up with that load (ridiculous amount of weight) - at all.

PerryB

Absolutely not. Thats Superduty territory. Preferably with a Powerstroke.

xcntrk

I can hear the RV dealer now.. "Sure you can tow that, you'll be fine.."

homeskizzle

Just curious...what, if anything, did you use to haul that 5ver around before?

smokeywren

No.


You don't say if your trailer is a TT for a 5er. The max TT tow rating of your truck is 8,000 pounds. The max 5er tow rating is 7,900 pounds. That's a lot less than the 12,200 pounds of your trailer.


And that's looking only at the optimistic tow rating. You'll be even more overloaded because that much hitch weight will severely overload the truck over the payload capacity of your truck.