If you drove on pavement, you probably won't get that hitch off again. Brushing and scraping on the ground getting hot enough to weld it on, and that your threads are destroyed. lol, that would be kinda funny, but really suck.

Good to see your truck can hold up to that. I'd hate to see my truck squatting that hard.

 

oh yeah...well here's my '05 Chrysler T&C - that's 6 sheets of plywood (4x8, yes they fit) and 72 2x4's!!! (sorry, didn't get a side shot)

oh, and the hatch would close too.

 

thanks Osu...now our girlfriends and wives are gonna say "see, why do you need a truck" if they ever see that pic...lol.

 

Wow in a Town and Country. How much did that add up to?

 

[quote=morepower29;1545877]He said it with the trailer was approx. 18000 lbs. Pulled it 40 miles each way. quote]

18,000 lbs??? Wow, man. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

If you had been involved in an accident or something, your insurance company would probably deem that negligent and refuse to pay a dime. The same story goes for your 2.5 ton load.

I've unwillingly had 5,000 lbs in the back of a work Ram before and it was ugly. It was evenly distributed cases of bottled water in an 04 or 05 long bed short cab and we had that bad boy on the Capital Beltway doing about 70. Every bump we hit was bottoming out the suspension. Luckily, I was not the ranking guy involved in that idea nor was I driving.

I like my truck too much to treat it so poorly. If I needed to haul that much I'd have sprung for the 2500.

 

I don't treat it poorly. I just make it work. I love my truck and take very good care of it. I may over load it everynow and then or pull twice what I should. But I keep a very close eye on all my fluid temps and change them all regulary.

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18,000lbs is way too much, these trucks can pull what, 6000lbs? but its good to see you work that baby, my truck is a workin truck as well.

 

yea, i know they can take it once in a while...but damn

i've had over 2K# in mine before, don't think i ever got close to hitting the hitch on the ground though

 

You know, I don't remember. But I've been told the T&C essentially has a 1/2 ton suspension. I don't think it bottomed out too bad, but you could tell there was a load.

Here's another funny one for you, and yeah, it's gonna make the wives start asking questions...

My wife and I were at the local home store a while back, and had a flatbed cart with 8-10 sheets of drywall for my basement.

We rolled it out and up to our van as these guys were loading their truck with drywall too. Well, their bed was a shortbed, and they must've had some other stuff in there too, cause the drywall didn't lay in flat. They had to put it in slantways, and tie it down, etc.

As they were loading, we roll up to our van and press the remote to open the hatch. I already had the seats down, so we just rolled the cart up behind it, lifted the drywall, slid it into the van, closed the hatch, and dropped the cart off. All the while, these guys were still struggling to load their drywall. I just chuckled to myself and smiled when I got back in the van.

 

I know the 4.7 with 17's can tow 7700 lbs. If im not mistaken, I think the third gen hemi's can tow 9000 lbs? Oh, thats with 17's, the 20's "reduce towing capabilities by 1000 lbs".

I could be wrong though.