Payload of 2017 F350 SRW 8' box 4 door 4wd XL...

[2025 deleted member]

Ok, hold up. What happened to the Patriot? And might I remind you:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...l-colorado-has-started!?p=2166280#post2166280

From mid-size to a cute ute, now to a monster truck. You're all over the place!

People change their mind. I had a deposit on a new Tacoma 4 door a few months back. Luckily it took a month longer than they told me it would so I had time to really think about it. Now I'm waiting on a 4 door f-350 to show up mid-January.

 

[Darwin]

According to the Lance website the 1172 comes it at 4075 lbs dry, not wet, and it is confusing when you say you have a 'backpacking gear set' but yet will be traveling in a massive triple slide in camper, it doesn't add up. Throw in the 4 inch lift plus 37" inch tires on a 17" inch rims and this thing is going to be downright dangerous on the road. Have you driven many heavy slide in campers? Even if you drive it around with no water in which I also think also doesn't really work unless you plan to stay at developed camgrounds in which case what is the point of the 37 inch tires, you will be overweight, and by a lot. It's fairly common knowledge the published weights listed by truck camper mfg's is always on the light side, sometimes by a lot.

Where do you plan to take this kind of a rig? It's also going to be sky high and top heavy.

 

[doctorit]

Yeah, what Darwin said... this is sounding really unsafe. Bigger tires and a lift effectively decrease your safe load capacity even further. Triple sides really don't belong on a SRW.

 

[kojackJKU]

its only a double slide and it 4500 lbs wet I was on their site. Again, I am not using it a lot....just be able to move around to wherever we want to go. I don't mean not take water....just fill up closer to wherever we are going. The lance is no where near as big as a lot of other campers I have seen....its more streamlined and lower to the truck than most. Hey if it don't work, I will sell the camper and get something smaller.....trying this one first.

 

[kojackJKU]

I still have the patriot NUT. People have more than one vehicle. I thinned the heard here, sold my F150, traded my JK unlimited for a Nissan micra, kept the patriot, sold my F250 2wd, keeping the suburban z71 and am now hunting a 350 4 door 8ft box. For utility and multiuse. Work, and play truck. I have vehiclular ADD. Said it many times. The F350 will be a do everything rig for us....Go get lumber, go get a load of crap from Costco etc 4 hrs away, toss the camper in it and go for the weekend/week.

 

[p nut]

Just busting your chops. Just thought it was funny the wild swings on vehicle choice. Yeah, it's definitely nice to have a truck for work and play. I wish I had enough room for a truck with 8' bed. Heck, wish I had room for a 6' bed. Garage is too tight for anything bigger than what I've got now.

 

[Clutch]

Just busting your chops. Just thought it was funny the wild swings on vehicle choice. Yeah, it's definitely nice to have a truck for work and play. I wish I had enough room for a truck with 8' bed. Heck, wish I had room for a 6' bed. Garage is too tight for anything bigger than what I've got now.

The solution sounds pretty simple...house with a bigger garage! A guy a couple houses down from me, just put up a pretty big pole building...big enough for a RV or 2 in there, kinda jealous...though I see his F350 sitting outside...treating a truck as it should treated, like a truck. Whatever happen to never washing a truck, beating the crap out of it hauling whatever....occasionally having to hose out the interior when the smell got too bad....what happened!? When did everyone become OCD, and started babying their trucks like a luxury car? :elkgrin:

 

[kojackJKU]

Yeah....I have 2 acres of land, my shop for work (building custom motorcycles/sleds/atv/utvs is on my property gated behind my house. Pretty sweet setup here. Not this cat clutch. My trucks are ridden hard at put away wet!

 

[Clutch]

Yeah....I have 2 acres of land, my shop for work (building custom motorcycles/sleds/atv/utvs is on my property gated behind my house. Pretty sweet setup here. Not this cat clutch. My trucks are ridden hard at put away wet!

I got shafted when we bought the new house...long story short, we had to buy it on the fly...quite literally bought in 3 days, we weren't even looking to buy. Got everything we wanted but a big garage. Have a little one, but it is filled with her antique letter press equipment.

There is a vacant lot behind us maybe an acre+, which the owner turns into a massive garden. He has hinted at selling it, maybe buy it when we sell off one of the rentals...by the time we would buy it and toss a pole building on it...dunno...much rather use the money for traveling.

We rarely washed our work trucks, vinyl seats, rubber floors...when they got too horrible...just hose it out. Seems like gone are the days of hosing out a vehicle. They keep on adding more and more luxo BS. A lot of the manufactures have off-road models out there...dunno, too nice to really use and abuse them. Would like to see the interiors water proof...like marine grade gauges, radios, upholstery, etc...

 

[kojackJKU]

Yeah really...that would work awesome. I dunno man, I would get the land.....You can still travel if you want....They are not making anymore. We came from the "burbs" here where I only had enough to back up my pop up camper next to my house. Now....I can park a semi truck between one neighour and 2 the other side. I have two full driveways...one for home and one for work, and so much land I am looking at building a bed and breakfast on it.

 

[Clutch]

Yeah really...that would work awesome. I dunno man, I would get the land.....You can still travel if you want....They are not making anymore. We came from the "burbs" here where I only had enough to back up my pop up camper next to my house. Now....I can park a semi truck between one neighour and 2 the other side. I have two full driveways...one for home and one for work, and so much land I am looking at building a bed and breakfast on it.

Yeah...it sure would be nice. It comes down to where we want to retire to. Stay here or move further out...have 20 more years to think about it. I grew up on some acreage, kinda missing that. We are in town now, but it is peppered with pastures, and big chunks of vacant lots. Kinda the best of both worlds...close to things to run errands, but still feels a little country. The guy a couple houses down with the big pole building has horses...kinda cool to have that right in the middle of the town.

Also would be cool to live in the middle no where too...one of those we'll find out when we get there sorta things.

 

[kojackJKU]

Yeah. This house we have was my family home from 1994 onwards. We bought it off my parent 2 years ago. we have 6000 sq ft developed living space on 3 floors, I have a 28x28 garage right behind my house and my shop for work which is a barn style garage that's 30x40 with a 20x40 room build on the end for my powdercoating / paint systems. I have a full engine room with cyl boring machine, getting a flow bench and some other stuff after the new year, tire changer etc. I am also becoming a dealer for most of the ADV parts suppliers like twisted throttle and touratech. I have a new Versys 300-X bought for next spring. They have it ready to order when available. Can't wait!

 

[p nut]

That must be nice to have all that land. Cost is premium here. But I do like to keep my cars and trucks in the garage, if I can. I am realistic and know I will sell my cars at ~5 year intervals. Maybe that qualifies me as V-ADD (kojack, you're V-ADHD!! :elkgrin, but resale is much better with a shiny paint job and clean interiors.
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That F350 will be a beast, though. Hope it all works out for you.

 

[Clutch]

Yeah. This house we have was my family home from 1994 onwards. We bought it off my parent 2 years ago. we have 6000 sq ft developed living space on 3 floors, I have a 28x28 garage right behind my house and my shop for work which is a barn style garage that's 30x40 with a 20x40 room build on the end for my powdercoating / paint systems. I have a full engine room with cyl boring machine, getting a flow bench and some other stuff after the new year, tire changer etc. I am also becoming a dealer for most of the ADV parts suppliers like twisted throttle and touratech. I have a new Versys 300-X bought for next spring. They have it ready to order when available. Can't wait!

My dad built the house a grew up in, I did have a chance to buy it for nothing 25 years ag...basically take over the mortgage. However I didn't want to live in PA anymore.

Your setup sounds cool...dunno....man, that sounds a hell of a lot like work to me! used to do all of my own work...now I just pay someone to do it. Land...garage....tools....buys an awful lot of someone else spinning the wrenches.

I joke the next time we move, it is going to be into a truck camper, what doesn't fit get burned!

That must be nice to have all that land. Cost is premium here. But I do like to keep my cars and trucks in the garage, if I can. I am realistic and know I will sell my cars at ~5 year intervals. Maybe that qualifies me as V-ADD (kojack, you're V-ADHD!! :elkgrin, but resale is much better with a shiny paint job and clean interiors.
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Ahhh...just busting yer bearings. We had a nice garage/shop back in PA. I have garage envy, I miss it....be nice to get the vehicles out of the weather. Snowing out there right now. Hoping to have enough by the time I get off work to go screw around on the XC skis tonight.

 

[kojackJKU]

Clutch....People are paying ME to do the work. I love it. Yeah Pnut, I do have ADD. The spinning of wrenches is my muse. It calms me down, I can focus on it for hrs on end. I was in the construction industry for years....had my own commercial construction company, as well as a fire and water restoration company. I was so ADD at that job. I could not focus on stuff consistently... Sold the business bought the house with land and Garages, and bingo. Work is MUCH better. Our house was built in 94. Most everything built here is using aspenite/chip board, My house here is 1 x 12 pine match lumber. The difference in quality of this house is very apparent compared to the new "pretty" houses. Much better....

I hope the 350 will be a beast. maybe 2" lift is enough. I have not sized one up.....