MightyMouse75

The expense involved with removing your tailgate???
Removing your steps?
Swapping for a manual seat?
Removing heat shields and unnecessary parts?

So far I'm saving over 100lbs at a cost of 0
Exhaust $300-$400
Tonneau cover $200
Wheels and tires ( I made $500 after my originals sold)

So far I am still at $0 and shaved another 50+ lbs

New truck? $12,000

So. I still have about $6000 in cash to grow at my truck. For that I can probably buy a fiber front end and maybe score an aluminum cab from a 2010 at The junk yard. That's not as feasible to some, but saving $6k is saving $6k.

If you read my first post thinking I expect someone to be able to take a truck like mine and tow a 5th wheel then you have a problem with common sense.

This 150lbs person not included thing is killing me. My wife's old Toyota Sienna had a higher payload capacity than my f150.

11screw50

Yeah, I get that a new truck is not for everyone but I don't see more than 100lb weight savings from mods and parts removal. I bought a camper that falls within the constraints of my truck's capabilities, if I already had the camper, I would have bought a truck that could handle it.

Have I since seen floorplans that I like better than the ones I have? Sure. Then I looked at the tongue weight and walked away. 50 or 100lb would not even get me close.

If you want to know the weight of your truck, take it to a scale. The general consensus is that tow rating includes the driver, payload sticker does not.

And yeah, minivans often do have payload in the range of (if not better than) half ton pickups. Seating for 8 means they have to have a pretty high payload.

Martian

Especially here.

xcntrk

This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. What ridiculous extremes to go through to get a few hundred extra pounds of payload. If you’re that close to the GVWR of the truck, then clearly you don’t have enough tow vehicle to meet your needs. Quit trying to make a half-ton pickup fit the shoes of a full ton. With the proper tow-vehicle you don’t have to worry about any of this BS including what you had for dinner last night and how much your crap may weigh…

Pearlman

2016 owner revised Max Tow Option truck.

Ricktwuhk

Normally I can see the transition logic, i.e. saying A is like B is like saying that C is like ____. This, this I didn't get...

Martian

A rectangle is not a square. A half ton is not a three-quarter ton. A tomato is not a suspension bridge.

tsigwing

its your truck, do what you want, but when you go to sell it, good luck explaining the manual seats and other oddities about your truck.

Cover Dog

+1

11screw50

I want a street legal version of this just so I can scare the crap out of all the Prius drivers around here...