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[erics_bruisers]

-- i should have asked this question "before", but didn't get around to it --

-- here she is a at a little over a ton -- 2,200 lbs, all factory.

at what point weight-wise will i hear carnage?

thanks -

eric

 

[REKCUT]

Tick tock, tick tock. You should hear it any second, or may be later on but if you keep it up you will hear something.

 

[sirenmoses]

Whatcha got in there? You do plan to replace the suspension soonish, yea?

Here's mine w/ 1300 lbs of gravel in the back (springs are flexing the wrong way). They didn't have much arch to them before the load anyway.

She's due new suspension as soon as I get the bux.

 

[cfdlighthouse]

Whatcha got in there? You do plan to replace the suspension soonish, yea?

Here's mine w/ 1300 lbs of gravel in the back (springs are flexing the wrong way). They didn't have much arch to them before the load anyway.

She's due new suspension as soon as I get the bux.

OMG !!!! you guys are nuts!!!

got to do what you got to do, but that makes me hurt just looking at it

 

[overhanger]

Payload on a 60 series is not much more than 1/2 ton in stock form. 1300 lbs of gravel moved without hassle just goes to show you how tough our trucks were originally designed. The backward arched spring pic made me wince but old Cruisers just keep on ticking........

 

[boots4]

I too have had mine rediculously overloaded to where both front and rear axles were riding on the bumpstops. When the price is free for something that is heavy (paver stone in my case) you do what you have to do. That was before my build and before I finished building a trailer that I can abuse. I calculated it as a little more than 3000lbs.

 

[sirenmoses]

... a little more than 3000lbs.

Whew, I feel much better now!

FWIW, the gravel broke the lil POS Harbor Freight trailer it was originally in. That's why it wound up in the back of the cruiser.

 

[SleekFJ62]

I hauled two loads of rock for modifications to a retaining wall about two years ago...the first load was 1100 lb.; the second was about 975 lb. I've got OME med springs in the rear. The Cruiser didn't seem to mind either trip, and I've had no negative reprecussions from having done this.

 

[Darkrealms]

I too have had mine rediculously overloaded to where both front and rear axles were riding on the bumpstops. When the price is free for something that is heavy (paver stone in my case) you do what you have to do. That was before my build and before I finished building a trailer that I can abuse. I calculated it as a little more than 3000lbs.

-- i should have asked this question "before", but didn't get around to it --

-- here she is a at a little over a ton -- 2,200 lbs, all factory.

at what point weight-wise will i hear carnage?

thanks -

eric

So is this how I'm supposed to flatten out those stock springs to bring my SOA down an inch or two??

 

[boots4]

 

[CSA]

Whatcha got in there?

My guess is dog food, but who really knows?

 

[Cruiserdrew]

I had a complete 3FE in the back of mine and it didn't complain at all.

 

[Wile E Coyote]

I had a complete 3FE in the back of mine and it didn't complain at all.

I should hope not. Coulda put two in there if they woulda fit.

I recently had a 500 Caddy engine follow me home the same way.