Exceeding payload capacity

[94redranger]

Hey guys I want to build an outdoor rink this year and I want to put a water tank in the box of my 94 extended cab (4.0L). I read the payload capacity is 1500 lbs. Can I exceed this and by how much. I am only going to be transferring water from my well to the rink which is only a 400 m trek in 4LO. Thanks!

 

[SierraCanine]

If you do exceed, do so at your own risk. The payload capacity rating is for the axle not the bed. If you over burden your axle you risk bending shafts or breaking your axle all together. check out this thread for more information http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131417

Hope this helps

 

[UrbanRedneckKid]

Just do it. 4 low, 1st gear. Don't be dumb about it, don't expect it to take off easily, and you sure as hell better not expect it to stop easily.

That's the reason I run Rangers and not S-10s, because I use them.

If it does seem excessive, use a trailer. Put the tank just forward of the axle.

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[martin]

OK, lets look at this from a practical point of view. comparing the size of the bed in your truck and the fact that a gallon of water weighs ten pounds. What size tank will physically fit in your truck? I would guess that a two hundred gallon tank would be as big as you could fit in there and I don't see two thousand pounds being any kind of problem for an 8.8 axle. just my opinion but a few points to ponder.

 

[adsm08]

OK, lets look at this from a practical point of view. comparing the size of the bed in your truck and the fact that a gallon of water weighs ten pounds. What size tank will physically fit in your truck? I would guess that a two hundred gallon tank would be as big as you could fit in there and I don't see two thousand pounds being any kind of problem for an 8.8 axle.

Forgetting, of course, that the load-bearing components of the 7.5 and the 28-spline 8.8 are the same.


Here is what I think, and I'm a little surprised no one else has seen it yet either.

If you are putting the tank in your bed, to run water from your well, to your rink, about 1200 ft (400 meter) apart, why not just fill the tank part way, until it looks like the bed is really starting to sag down, and then stop putting water in it. I'd think it would be better to make a few extra trips than break the truck.

 

[snoranger]

There you go adsm, using logic again.

 

[94redranger]

Thanks for the input. I think Ill make a few trial runs progressively increasing the amount of water each time until I can see/feel the max weight amount. Worst case scenario I hi jack my brothers silverado!

 

[Captain Ledd]

I would vote for a trailer personally, that is if you're intent on shuttling it with your truck.

if you want to keep it going long term:

rent a trencher
buy a skid of this and a few appropriate fittings http://www.pexuniverse.com/1-2-pex-al-pex-tubing-500ft
and put in one of those freeze proof farm faucets.

It's called PEX-AL-PEX, pex is some nice stuff, and the sandwich of aluminum makes it much more stable for expandsion/contraction and I'm pretty certain this stuff is allowed to be buried. just make sure you're below the frost line. It also uses a compression fitting, so you don't need special tools like regular pex.

Edit: wrong link... really.