StephM27

2018 Ford F-150 Lariat V8
We are looking to buy an enclosed trailer to haul a RZR Turbo (1475lbs) and Talon 1000R (1545lbs). The trailer we are looking at is an 8.5x24, weighing 3600lbs empty, would our truck tow the trailer and SXS’s (6620lbs) with little to no problem or would we be pushing it?? Ford Website says the truck has a towing capacity of 11,400lbs...
Has anyone towed this amount with an F150, if so, how did it do??
Thanks

smokeywren

Depends on how much weight you haul in the truck. But if you haul the normal cargo of passengers and gear, you'll probably be nearly overloaded - if not overloaded over the payload capacity of your F-150.

3600 trailer
1475 RZR
1545 Talon
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6,620 gross trailer weight = 861 Tongue weight = 961 hitch weight with a WD hitch
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The only way to know for sure if you have enough payload capacity to add 961 pounds of hitch weight (payload) to your other payload.

Yes, but that's just the pulling capacity. You'll have no problem pulling that wet and loaded trailer. But your limiter is probably the payload capacity of your F-150, not the pulling capacity.

The only way to know for s sure is to load the truck with everybody and everything that will be in it when towing, go to a truck stop that has a CAT scale and fill up with gas, then weigh the wet and loaded F-150. Subtract the weight of the truck from the GVWR of the truck and the answer is payload capacity available for hitch weight. If you don't have at least 961 pounds of payload capacity available for hitch weight, then you'll be overloaded when you tie onto that loaded trailer,

Brad34

What smokeywren said. What is your truck's payload capacity?

StephM27

The door says 1911 lbs. Passengers and cargo would be 630lbs or less in the truck.

StephM27

Website for the trailer says that the tongue weight is 540 lbs.

Sweetlou

That’s “dry” weight, meaning completely unloaded. Tongue weight is usually around 10-15% of your “wet” weight. So when you are done adding all the weight to your trailer (bikes, tools, gas, spare parts, gear, etc), take 13% of that for tongue weight. Don’t forget to add (or subtract really) 100lb to your payload for the weight distribution hitch.

StephM27

Ok. So with the payload at 1911, weight in truck being approximately 850 lbs, tongue weight 540 lbs, trailer weight loaded at 6700 lbs, would the truck do well or is it too much for it?? Thanks

marshallr

The tongue weight on a 6700 lb trailer will be about 870 lbs, not 540. Add another 100 for a WDH and you have right at 1000 lbs on the hitch. With a payload of 1911 lbs that leaves you 900 lbs for passengers/cargo in the truck. That is enough for most people so you should be OK.

Also, to determine towing capacity the cab style, bed length, and axle ratio matter. As does 4X4 vs 4X2. You don't mention any of that, but I doubt if your truck is rated to tow 11,400 lbs. But it is probably rated for at least 8000, so once again I think you're OK.

Sweetlou

I think you are severely underestimating your weight. You will be much closer to 8000lb. Hell, just my tools alone weight over 100lb. Spare parts? Tires? Fuel? Gear? Tie-downs? Figure at least an extra 500lb of stuff on top of your 3000lb worth of toys. That’s 3500 + 3600lb trailer = 7100lb trailer. 15% of tongue is 1065lb tongue. That leaves you 800lb payload (100lb hitch don’t forget).

You will be close but you should be fine. The more you load in the trailer the better.

djennings

I tow a very similar trailer with a 3800lb Mustang in it. I also have the 5.0 in a '16 XLT trim SCrew. My payload is just over 1800lbs and the GCWR is 14300 and I'm about 800 pounds under on the scale. Currently using an Anderson WDH and it tows nice. Sure a steeper gear could help but as the truck isn't used for towing every week I am happy with the trade off for mileage the 3.31 gets me..

Your Lariat should be fine with a good WDH setup to not overload the hitch ratings. The CAT scale is also worth it to really know how much you're pulling and how it's distributed on the truck.