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    New to the forum and I'll tell you why- towing

    Guys

    Hey- I'm new to the forum (as my title says..duh) and have a quick question but there doesn't seem to be a sub-category for towing so I'll just start here!

    I have a 2015 Lariat 4WD, crew cab, 3.5L ecoboost. It's been a pretty good truck overall, no major issues, just some minor ones so I'll be keeping it until it dies...which I hope is not for a while

    Question though that brought me to this forum is that I tow a 6,000lb boat/trialer which I just got last fall. Now, I should have looked at my hitch capacity but I really never thought it to be an concern until I rolled under the truck and found the hitch is only rated to pull 5,000 w/ 500lbs of weight on it (unless using a WDH). Now who uses a WDH with a wakeboard boat? Answer, no one that I have seen, not even a F150. I'm guessing that all those other guys I see pull up to the ramp with these larger boats are just ignoring their hitch rating capacity.

    With my new boat's setup, I expect I will be pulling around 6,500lb with a tongue weight (at 10-15%) of 650-975lbs.

    Now, before I get a lecture on GVWR vs. hitch vs. all the other ratings we see in our manuals, I'm pretty up on what all of this means. On the "other" 150 forum, there's a post from a guy who got blasted with lots of emails (with bad info) on this subject so I guess I'm trying to avoid this type of discussion and arguments if possible.

    I'm just trying to find out what others have done or IF there is anyone else out there who has dealt with this issue.

    From what I can see, I have two options:

    1. Buy the Curt class IV hitch that sits below the stock hitch to raise my "hitch" rating to a true class IV (1,000 tongue,10,000 pulling). BTW, I called them and confirmed all of the above and the fact that this hitch does NOT put me over my trucks pulling and loading limits but rather increases the tongue and pulling capacity which the weakest link in this case is the stock hitch. IMO, this is the hitch Ford should have installed as it doesn't go past the loading limit of the axles, tires, rims, chassis, etc but give us a little more room for this situation.
    2. Remove the stock bumper/hitch assembly and purchase a new assembly w/o the stock hitch, basically taking my stock hitch off then and buy the Curt (or similar) class IV hitch and install them both.

    Is there anyone else here that has dealt with this successfully?
    Last edited by wired1236; 03-04-2019 at 05:17 PM.

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