Hi everyone, I just bought a 2018 F150 Crew 4x2 . It has a 2.7L with 3.15 gears. I cant find anywhere on the Ford tow guide what I'm able to haul. Here's a pic of the hitch (from Ford) and a couple of trailers I'm interested in. Truck has a GVWR of 6,360. On the internet the dealer had it at 3.55 gears. I just spotted on the window sticker its 3.15. Is that a major deal? Also it's a 10 speed trans with Tow Mo (whatever that means &#128514 Any help, advice etc. Thanks everyone 😁

 

 

Its showing 12,700lbs. Do these pics help as well?

 

Ignore every bit of information posted on the internet by the dealer. You can lookup your axle ratio at https://www.etis.ford.com. Use that and everything else you know about your truck (4x2 or 4x4, regular cab or supercab or supercrew, etc) to lookup your tow capacity by googling your year, mfg and model, and 'tow chart'. Use Ford's charts.

The trailer info you posted say it's a max of 4500lbs loaded. Load gear close to the axle to keep your tongue weight below 500lbs, you will remain under the weight distribution hitch requirement (500 tongue max / 5000 trailer max). Subtract your tongue weight from the truck's payload capacity, you will know how much junk and bodies you can put in the truck.

 

that receiver rating is a general rating for the receiver only, not for your specific truck's capability. they put the same receiver on many differently spec'd F150, that have different towing capabilities.

 

Don't. For trailer stability, load in front of the axle. Otherwise you may end up with sway.

500lbs tongue limit is for weight carrying. For weight distribution, his limit is 1100lbs (but will probably hit payload, gcwr or rgawr first). Do not try to pull any travel trailer using a weight carrying hitch, use a WDH with sway control.

Hitch weight from the RV site means nothing because it's the dry weight. Add LPG and a battery and this number goes up 150lbs. Any cargo added to the trailer will load the hitch. To get a better estimate of the real hitch weight use 14% of the trailer GVW.

 

Loading close to the axle will not significantly change handling properties of the trailer. For starters, one generally cannot load much close to the axles due to a lack of means to secure things. Having a few hundred Lbs close to the axles (which by my definition is within a 4ft box centered upon the axles), is not the same as placing 800lbs of gear at the rear of a trailer, 8ft behind the axles.

Yes, adding weight BEFORE the axles is best, but it's not the end-all-be-all of trailer loading. Placement of the axles affects where you can safely load gear, and we all know the mfg's follow their own ideals for this. TT weight before Vs after axles Vs length from hitch to axles Vs type of suspension Vs... all have an impact on how a towed trailer behaves. There is a reason it's important to get your trailer weighed, and no just for total weight. TW% says a lot about where you are starting out with any trailer.

I saw a bumper pull two days ago, 20ft-ish, double axle within 3-4ft of the rear of the trailer. No idea why they would need to be that far back (central air system in the rear?), but it was obvious that mfg's do whatever they want to do because... reasons.

My small 5x8 has a balanced axle position (it's a dump box), with the tongue 4.5ft from the front of the trailer. I can load 1500lbs of dense grade as rearward as possible, it refuses to become unstable because the length between the hitch and axle is too long for the pendulum effect to overcome the suspension's ability to absorb the energy. Before my 150 I pulled it for 4 years behind a 3250Lb Escape with a 42" shorter wheelbase.