smokeywren

More than enough power and torque to drag your race trailer over hill and dale.


Correct.


That's 5,400 pounds gross trailer weight, which if properly loaded will be about 700 pounds tongue weight. Because tongue weight is more than 500 pounds, you must have a weight-distributing hitch, which will add another 100 pounds or so to the hitch weight for a quality sway-control weight-distributing hitch.


So you have two challenges to overcome. 1] You must have a WD hitch, and 2], you'll have to pay attention to the weight you haul in the truck and trailer if you don't want to be overloaded.


What you want to do is do-able without overloading your tow vehicle, but it will be frustrating because it will be so easy to exceed the payload capacity of your F-150 if you don't carefully consider every pound you want to haul with you.


As soon as you have the truck and trailer loaded and the WD hitch hooked up, drive to a truck stop that has a certified automated truck scale, fill up with gas, then weigh the wet and loaded rig. Add the weights on the steer (front) and drive (rear) axles of the truck to get GVW. Compare the GVW to the GVWR of the truck. Then, and only then, will you know how much payload capacity, if any, you have available for additional weight in the truck and trailer.


Don't be misled by the power of your truck to drag that race trailer over the Rockies at breakneck speed. It will do that. That 3.5L EcoBoost drivetrain is amazing. But the frame, suspension, tires and brakes are intended for a half-ton pickup, and are easy to overload, even if you're paying attention. My similar F-150 EcoBoost is overloaded with a trailer that grosses less than 5,000 pounds. And mine is a 4x2 that has a coupla hundred pounds more payload capacity than your 4x4.

atwowheelguy

You would have to put as much cargo as possible off the truck and on the trailer.

I'm towing a 6640# toy hauler with 900# tongue weight. Driver, tonneau cover, spray in bed liner, weight distribution hitch and a couple of tools weigh 367 lbs.

16% of the 900# tongue weight was transferred to the trailer axles by the weight distribution hitch. So 71% of the 1607# payload is used up leaving 460 lbs. for passengers. If the payload had been 1287#, it would have used up 89% of the payload.

Yours might sneak in under the limits, but you will have to watch it. Only way to know is to take it to the scales.

http://www.publicscaleslocator.com

Yinger

Very informative! Appreciate all the insight fellas

charles_slc

Very possible on a 2014 ....

Max Tow on the pre 2015's added about 300#'s to the GVWR.
HDPP added a bunch more.

On 2015+, max tow adds nothing to GVWR...HDPP adds a bunch.

And remember the Max payload #'s above are for a base XL with no options.

photomankc

Wow, what a difference a year makes!

smokeywren

Usually when a manufacturer spouts "all new", that's just sales hype. But when Ford came out with the 2015 aluminum-bodied F-150, it was a completely different truck than the 2014 F-150. It wasn't "all new", but it was certainly a lot different.

WXman

But what's confusing me is that according to what he told us about his truck, he's got the exact same configuration as me, except engines. My sticker shows a 7,350 lb. GVWR and 1,574 lb. payload, and the manual shows a 7,700 lb. max towing capacity.

How is his truck rated so low? Especially in the same XLT trim?

Yinger

not sure if it makes a difference, but i have the 5.5 feet bed, not the 6.5.

My max GVWR is 7200 lbs.

charles_slc

The 3.5 EB is actually 10# heavier than the 5.0L.

Max payload on a 13/14 4x4 SCREW with 5.0L and 157" WB is 1,570#

He doesn't tell us what other options he has....
Skid plates and 36gal fuel tank for instance, take-a-way close to 200# of payload.

charles_slc

That costs you 40# of payload....your truck started at 1520# vs 1560# for the 6.5 bed.