i keep telling y'all....
http://timbren.com/

 

Only reason I didn't get them was because I read how close they are to the axle. If you hit a bump/pothole, I heard you get a nasty bang. I went with the coilovers, but... if I had to do it again I would have listened to you :P

 

My truck squatting with a pallet of grass... not sure about the weight, but i think its around 3500-4000

Truck is an off-road edition which came with add-a-leafs.... I think they do help some.

And no, I didn't get stuck. The mud is from the VERY soggy grass farm

EDIT: To add a little perspective, my tires are 35's

 

everyone overloads there trucks once in a while. I have a 1996 dodge ram 1500 5.9l 360 club cab 8ft bed that i gave hell pulling a 1994 ram 1500 5.9 reg cab 6ft bed to the junk yard weight in 13300 about 5500 was my truck. now i have a little wine in the truck yet to find where will soon tho lol.

 

i would never overload my truck by that much and your example is different. that would be pretty much the same as hauling a trailer. it is not like you put the 94 in the bed of the 96.

 

**** i loaded up my 86 dodge till the axle was hitting the frame then drove it home,,was it the best thing to do no,,, did i want to make two trips no,, it was only a few mile

that truck never let me down

 

I don't really want to bring up a ford, but for sake of discussion I had a Ford Ranger that I broke both of the rear leaf springs in by putting 1,500 lbs of concrete and fence posts in. I believe that's about 1,000 lbs too much for that truck. I had to hit the brakes to corner since the front tires were skipping around corners. Hit the brakes to go around the final corner to get onto my street and both of the springs broke off the shackles the passenger side first, then the driver side once the load went back on the other spring. Needless to say the axle broke free at that point and the rest is history.

Does anyone know if a Dodge Ram would be that catastrophic if I grossly overloaded it, or is that just a ford thing?

(BTW, I don't hate Ford, I've still got another Ranger in the garage that's getting a 351 transplant.)

 

its definatly a ford thing.....

i had a 2007 Ford....in 2008 i got rid of it......nuff said....



and i had a 93 Nissan 4x4, and it had holes in the frame, and it could still support 1000+ lbs....

 

If you load it like that often you need one of two things. A trailer or a heavy duty truck! I would NOT do that to my truck more than once and the first time would have to be an accident

 

No it's not a ford thing, you overload any truck enough and you'll break the springs. There are load rating for a reason, you're asking for trouble when you exceed them. That said I have done it more than once.