My buddy has a 98 2wd F150 and his wouldn't move this much weight, my boss has an 97 F250 4wd triton and it doesn't pull as this weight as well.

2,000lb of pellets. I did have to look down to see the road though. I guess it was just about max as to what it will handle. Pulled it just fine, don't think I would want to take any fast corners. Another 500 pounds and the front wheels might have been off the ground.

 

Thats what I'm talking about! Trucks are made to be used.

 

yeah my friend has a 93 ford lightning and he always brags about how it blows the doors off my dakota... who needs speed when your hauling 1000lbs in the bed.

 

Do you have new shocks on, cause cause the truck looks bottomed out. I have really old ones and they are bottomed out with only having about 600 pounds in it.

 

Yeah, ProComp 9000. About 6 months old. I figure most of the problem is the 18 year old springs.

 

Sweet! I love when my "little truck" out works my friends truck.

 

Working around a lot of trucks as far as I can tell the only real weak spot on the suspension is how the rear shocks mount, it just looks cheap. I bet if someone put some heavy duty mounts along with a new tube frame to mount it to plus some HD rear leafs this thing would haul a LOT, the only next thing would be the fact it is so light of a truck to be super heavy duty.

These little Dakotas really are a great pickup. It will be even better when I drop a 360 into it (eventually the motor has to go bad) and I will upgrade the tranny at the same time.