Dundee_Dude

Well, I've had my truck for almost 2 years and never towed with it. Went on a 1500 trip this week and was disappointed how much my bed was sagging with an open car trailer. The trailer was 2,500 and the car is 4,000 lbs.

With my 4.6 3v and the 6 speed, Ford claims 9500 lbs the truck can handle. I just can't see this.

I did move the car back after this picture, but it didn't help too much. I did have about 200 lbs of mis. in the front of the bed also.

I really was hoping to pull a 20' enclosed trailer with this truck, but maybe not now without airbags.

BobLobLaw

I notice the same thing whenever I'm carrying over 1000 lbs in the bed, lots of sag. I've read up on it and apparently it's normal for these trucks. This is why I will never install a leveling kit.

pappcam

You need a WDH hitch with a 7000# load. The hitch is only rated for 500lbs. with out a WDH and I'm sure you're way over that.

EBinMT

Check out the Roadmaster Active Suspension.

Pierluc

im pretty sure the trailer tongue is verry heavy like that, ive had 1500 pound of trash in the bed a couple of time and it didnt sink enough to worry

Watt-maker

Very, very nice charger! 1970?

Well it is a half-ton truck. Even though yours is rated to tow 9500 lbs they never said how it would look doing it. I'm a big fan of airbags but a few folks have recommended Roadmaster Active Suspension so I'm now think about going with that. Btw, my F150 is rated for 11,100 lbs towing. However, with the 1700 lb payload capacity and the super soft oem goodyears, it would be a white knuckle ride. I towed 6500 lbs of concrete yesterday and it looked about the same. Plenty of power but the limitations of a half-ton were apparent.

PondJumper

Yeh dude that looks bad, but look at the trailer. You got a lot of weight up front. I'd be interested to see what the tongue weight is. Willing to say it's up there.

kozal01

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X2!

EBinMT

This is very true. That big ole charger probably has a lot of iron resting between the front fenders. I loaded a 67 f100 with a 390 on a similar trailer years ago. Towed it with a 3/4t dodge. To get that ford to fit we had slot of tongue weight even though the truck didn't weigh much more than your charger there.

DrewTK

As others have said, a WD hitch would solve your problem. Also, I can tell just by looking that you probably have too much tongue weight. I used a trailer tongue weight scale to properly place my race car on my trailer. The car needs to be further back on the trailer than you think.

For me, the proper placement was by having my side view mirror directly above the front axle.

And sweet car BTW!