Originally Posted By: Stewart Fan
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: Stewart Fan
Originally Posted By: volvos_rock
I have a 98 K1500...Ive added Helwig spring helpers rated at 1 ton, themselves. New tires are max load range (I think "e"). Cost about $300 for the Helwig set up from suspensionconnection.com. I routinely hall 2500-3k pounds without issue and minimal sagging. If you plan to haul heavy, often, take a look at the helwig products.
Thats all well and fine until you snap an axle shaft going down the highway. As you head for the ditch,you'll see the tire and wheel go bouncing past you into oncoming traffic.
A tire and wheel going through a windshield at 60mph makes a mess of a person.
Half tons do a lot of things well,but hauling 3000lbs isn't one of them.
Interesting.... The new F-150 (and I'm assuming previous models back to '04) is rated for close to 4K in the back.
Not even close to 4000lbs of payload from any of the current 1/2 ton trucks. The F150 (with the max towing package) maxes out at about 3000. One single Ford model built in 2011 is a far cry from a 13 year old Chevy 1/2 ton.
I'm just going by the spec's on the site, which lists 4800lbs as the rear axle capacity... The site doesn't list payload that I could find.
However, I went back and took the curb weight from the GVWR and ended up with 3,405lbs. So based on that, a 150lb guy could get away with 3,255lbs in the bed right?
Anyways, I wasn't meaning to compare it to the GM truck in question, it was just a comment regarding your all-encompassing statement about half-ton trucks, which appeared to be very general and I had assumed was not isolated to the 1997 GMC Sierra.....