NICE BOAT......AND OF COURSE EXCEPTIONALLY NICE TRAUCK!!!!!!!This truck handles my tritoon so much better than my 2017 Nissan Titan. The Titan Platinum Reserve rear suspension sagged. This truck sits level and feels so much better on the road.
@BuiltFordTough - do you know the tongue weight of your trailer & boat? I'm looking hard at buying an F150 soon and need to tow a 6500lb dry weight travel trailer. I installed Timbren suspension parts to keep my current 2004 Yukon Denali from sagging. They work great...I'm just trying to figure out if I'll need to add them once I jump off the cliff and get a 150. Thanks!This truck handles my tritoon so much better than my 2017 Nissan Titan. The Titan Platinum Reserve rear suspension sagged. This truck sits level and feels so much better on the road.
@meyer_22 I’m using a ball mount with a 2” drop. Since this photo was taken I have flipped it which gives about a 1” rise to help the boat ride more level. The boat trailer has a surge brake so I haven’t bothered with a weight distributing hitch. I do have the Max Tow package.
@BuiltFordTough. Thank you very much for the info. My tongue weight is listed at 610 lbs and I do have a WD hitch that we use with our current '04 GMC Yukon that I assume I'll be able to use with the F150 with no problems. Your response really helped me a lot. I'm going to stop worrying about having to add any Timbren (or other) suspension parts to prevent sag. It's always so nice to cross something off the 'what about' list
Thanks much. I have a Powerboost Full Hybrid with Max Trailer Tow, and also will be pulling a 26ft Tri-Toon with a 300HP engine. Was interested in whether or not you had the weight distributing hitch or not. Have you used the pro trailer assist, and if so was it a pain to place the sensors on the trailer?
That seems odd. I need to look at my truck now. My tacoma i just traded in had a 500 lb max tongue weight without WDH. Hard to believe this hitch is rated the same. Anything over 5000 lb for a TT i would use a WDH regardless just because of size. Anderson WDH only weighs 53 lbs and doesn't give you the bulk of the friction bar style as well.
I’m currently looking into getting a double axle trailer for my truck. Reading the manual, I can’t find anything mentioning a weight distributing hitch being required, or even anything with a tongue weight limit other than on this page. With a class 4 hitch, some manufacturers allow up to 1,000lbs of tongue weight.
I know in some manuals and even stickered on some hitches is a 500lb limit, with 800lbs weight distributing but apparently that’s for what’s called a Class III/IV hitch.
I have the Max Tow and HDPP, so my GVWR is 7850lbs with a GCWR of 18300lbs, Ford’s tow chart lists 13,000lbs as the maximum loaded trailer weight for conventional towing. Then, at the bottom of the page, in the 2021 towing brochure, there is mention of a weight distribution hitch for all factory installed hitches, including the Max Tow option, which is supposed to be a class 4 hitch. Sure enough, there is a sticker on mine, though not exactly obvious unless you crawl underneath.
So does this mean that the factory installed Class IV hitch on Max Tow isn’t a true Class IV hitch but more of a Class III/IV? It kind of sucks that if you want to tow 6,000lbs, that you have to use a weight distributing hitch to stay kosher, especially since the WD hitch adds 100lbs on its own.
https://www.truckspring.com/towing/trailer-hitches/hitch-classes.aspx
Meanwhile, an aftermarket Class III hitch has a better non WD capacity than the factory “Class IV” hitch:
Just another example of the shell game that is Ford’s payload and tow rating system.
Do you have any payload left, at 8200 pounds that's 800-1200 tongue weight and most of these trucks top out at 1500 pounds payload some as low as 1200, be careful.I'll be towing this Tuesday. Just set up the hitch today and am happy it sits level. I do have timbrens installed just incase. 8200lbs dry.
