2000lbs up front?

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Looks like I'll be able to hang up to 2000lbs, wondering how people have done with alot of weight up front. Sorry if it's been talked about but I searched and only found 1 guy mentioning that he has put that much weight on his rack but nothing about if it actually benefited him.
 
lco said:
Looks like I'll be able to hang up to 2000lbs, wondering how people have done with alot of weight up front. Sorry if it's been talked about but I searched and only found 1 guy mentioning that he has put that much weight on his rack but nothing about if it actually benefited him.
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my new truck should hang 1700
 
i dont know what 2000lb would do but maybe think about not hanging so much up front. i think it may put a lot of stress on the front end. you will just have to use trial and error. as long as your front end doesnt pull up much is all you should have to worry about. then put the rest in the front of the bed
 
coady said:
i dont know what 2000lb would do but maybe think about not hanging so much up front. i think it may put a lot of stress on the front end. you will just have to use trial and error. as long as your front end doesnt pull up much is all you should have to worry about. then put the rest in the front of the bed
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yeah i was wondering about that too. so squizz what have you done up front for drivetrain?
 
Maybe I'm missing something. I don't pull trucks but have been pulling tractors for 30 or so years and have watched a lot of trucks pull. All the pro trucks are so light in the rear if they burp the throttle backing into the sled, the rear wheels come off the ground. Many even have "wheelie bars" under their front weight boxes. That tells me that with 4WD you want as much weight on the front as you can get. The sled gives you all you need on the rear and the further out front it is the more leverage it has to lift up on the front of the sled. Take off your tailgate and rear bumper so you can hang another 100 up front.
 
Farmallgray said:
Maybe I'm missing something. I don't pull trucks but have been pulling tractors for 30 or so years and have watched a lot of trucks pull. All the pro trucks are so light in the rear if they burp the throttle backing into the sled, the rear wheels come off the ground. Many even have "wheelie bars" under their front weight boxes. That tells me that with 4WD you want as much weight on the front as you can get. The sled gives you all you need on the rear and the further out front it is the more leverage it has to lift up on the front of the sled. Take off your tailgate and rear bumper so you can hang another 100 up front.
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yea your right! thats what we are saying! some classes were you pull the truck has to be complete
 
look at the guy who won TS 2.6 class this year, he was running a mega cab and didnt hang any weight. I'd say its not all about weight up front....
 
Thats because he can't hang wieght he had to take out his back seat and some other things to make the class
 
So whats your point? Im saying weight up front isnt everything to a winning truck. Would the truck be better with weight up front? More than likely yes but he already has a proven truck without any weight up there is all im saying.
 
Thats right...to a point.

The Mega-cab that one had the advantage of the longer wheel base. Now on a reg-cab long box you need the weight as far out as possible.

On my old Crew-Cab dually GM with a 168" wheel base I only hung 800lbs but I can tell you...because of the wheel base and the weight there where few that could touch it when setup correctly.

Think about it this way.....

Look at your truck and imagine the contact area of the rear tires and the ground as the fulcrom. (pretend its a tetor totor). Most organizations requre that the hitch point be rear most point of the truck. Now lets say you have a reg-cab with 2000lbs of hanging weight comparing to a Mega-cab (158" wheel base) with only 1000lbs....that extra 20 or more inches of wheel base and 1000lbs less weight is still going to take quite a bit more leverage (chain pulling down on the hitch) in order to lift the front suspension up than it would with the shorter wheelbase and extra weight.

Its all about how you can plant the front tires when the sled starts really pulling the hitch towards the ground.

Ryan
 
I know Cole (Smokin93) is hanging that much...might want to PM him. I know he seems to be able to grunt out another 5 or 10 feet at the end better than most with that amount of weight.
 
RyanB said:
Thats right...to a point.

The Mega-cab that one had the advantage of the longer wheel base. Now on a reg-cab long box you need the weight as far out as possible.

On my old Crew-Cab dually GM with a 168" wheel base I only hung 800lbs but I can tell you...because of the wheel base and the weight there where few that could touch it when setup correctly.

Think about it this way.....

Look at your truck and imagine the contact area of the rear tires and the ground as the fulcrom. (pretend its a tetor totor). Most organizations requre that the hitch point be rear most point of the truck. Now lets say you have a reg-cab with 2000lbs of hanging weight comparing to a Mega-cab (158" wheel base) with only 1000lbs....that extra 20 or more inches of wheel base and 1000lbs less weight is still going to take quite a bit more leverage (chain pulling down on the hitch) in order to lift the front suspension up than it would with the shorter wheelbase and extra weight.

Its all about how you can plant the front tires when the sled starts really pulling the hitch towards the ground.

Ryan
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yea the wieght helps its common sense with a reg cab
 
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