svt_gEEk
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- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Make / Model
- Ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
As the title states...think I may have exceeded the payload on my 2000Ranger 4x4 4.0L this weekend. Didn't think about the weight of the landscaping blocks I was picking up at Lowe's for a weekend project and ordered 105 of them (which is what I needed by my calculations). I didn't think about the weight until it was too late. When the guy on the forklift placed the pallet in the bed, the truck just completely bottomed out. By then it was too late so I just put on my hazards and drove home at a very slow speed. The motor and tranny had no problem pulling the weight, but you could tell the suspension had been totally eliminated from the equation, lucky I didn't have a blowout I guess. By my calculations, I hauled somewhere between 2,500 - 2750 lbs not including me and my wife. No need to yell at me, I know it was dumb. Probably takes the cake by a longshot of the dumbest things I've ever done in a vehicle. Made it home fine though and drove it in to work today (without the weight today of course).
I do have a question though, what did I damage, lol. I probably should check the mounts for the leaf springs and shocks and have the wheel bearings checked out...coming up on 100k miles and was going to check/replace those anyway.
I do have a question though, what did I damage, lol. I probably should check the mounts for the leaf springs and shocks and have the wheel bearings checked out...coming up on 100k miles and was going to check/replace those anyway.