Let's see your Tow rigs with your boat!
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I struggled long and hard on the 150 vs. 250. I have had a 250 since the late 80's and switched to a 150 in 2015. I got tired of the rough ride, the shorter turning radius, DEF fluid, slow heater warmup, higher priced repairs/maintenance, and the fuel mileage as in the recent years I have become the 90/10 rule with regards to pulling anything remotely heavy. So far I have been happy with my decision on the 15. When it came time to buy a new one a few weeks ago I struggled with the 150 vs. 250 debate again. In the end I went back with the 150 a few weeks ago for the reasons stated above. So far I am happy but we will see if I still am when I put a 5600# dry weight boat behind it which is the primary reason I am looking at an air bag solution.
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Re: Let's see your Tow rigs with your boat!
I think you'll be happy. Boats have much lighter tongue weights than trailers or 5th wheels. When pulling travel trailers, I always had to use equalizer or weight distributing hitches but never with boats. Good luck.
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Re: Let's see your Tow rigs with your boat!
The dry weight of our 222 is listed as either 4150 or 4660 depending on which cobalt document you look at. As you can see in our pics that amount of weight dropped the back end of the f150 about 1.5 inches. I'm not sure what another 1k would do but I am thinking you will most likely want / need some suspension help back there be it airbags or helper springs.Soonerfan wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:16 am I struggled long and hard on the 150 vs. 250. I have had a 250 since the late 80's and switched to a 150 in 2015. I got tired of the rough ride, the shorter turning radius, DEF fluid, slow heater warmup, higher priced repairs/maintenance, and the fuel mileage as in the recent years I have become the 90/10 rule with regards to pulling anything remotely heavy. So far I have been happy with my decision on the 15. When it came time to buy a new one a few weeks ago I struggled with the 150 vs. 250 debate again. In the end I went back with the 150 a few weeks ago for the reasons stated above. So far I am happy but we will see if I still am when I put a 5600# dry weight boat behind it which is the primary reason I am looking at an air bag solution.
Also, and I'm sure you know this, but take a look at payload on the F150. The payload drops like a rock when you get into the higher trim levels becasue of the extra weight of things like heated and cooled seats. Our 2015 SuperCrew 4x4 is rated at 1550lbs. 600lbs or so of tounge plus some coolers and ice plus a couple people you eat that up pretty quick.
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Thanks, I am planning on getting it installed. Especially since I have leveled out some of the rake in my 150 it will look like it's sagging even more!
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Re: Let's see your Tow rigs with your boat!
The tongue weight on my set up is pretty heavy. Drops my HD a couple inches. A smaller truck would have an issue.
The trailer is almost a ton, and the boat is probably over 7k wet.
I've had three F-350 trucks in a row before the GMC. The late model Ford suspension changes of coil fronts and 6' long leafs in the rear allow them to ride pretty good these days. Not as good as a half ton, but so much better than before.
The trailer is almost a ton, and the boat is probably over 7k wet.
I've had three F-350 trucks in a row before the GMC. The late model Ford suspension changes of coil fronts and 6' long leafs in the rear allow them to ride pretty good these days. Not as good as a half ton, but so much better than before.
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Here's one for you B. I spotted it today in Dallas. What the hell do people use trucks like this for?
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To compensate for other things.
To compensate for other things.
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Haaaja!
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BadBoy tow vehicle of the day.
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Vehicle ran out of gas. Now boat is for sale.
Vehicle ran out of gas. Now boat is for sale.
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Groceries and dry cleaning. Duh!
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That's pretty neat, wonder how fast?
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That's pretty cool.
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Ha. Very cool. Never seen that one done.
I can tell you the gyroscopic effect would be insane!
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Ha. Very cool. Never seen that one done.
I can tell you the gyroscopic effect would be insane!
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