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What is the max weight you have carried inside your K5?

badmix

badmix

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I just came back from scrap yard. I had 1250lbs in the back of my Blazer :doah:, the truck was squatting a bit, but it handled find, motor didnt strain, although 4:10 gears really help get it going at stop lights. As long as I drove "normal" and not upset the truck in turns , etc It rode fine. Was glad to get all that weight out. I just felt bad for my truck, lol. is that possible?

Edit - im still running 10b front and rear and have rough country 2" lift, spring lift and bilstein 5150s.
 
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I have had ~2500 LBS in the back of my blazer a bunch of times......(Im a tile setter) and it was just fine.
 
I'd say 2500lbs or so when I used to lay bricks with my Dad. The supply place we used had a pre-mixed mortar set-up that saved us a lot of time, as well as saved having to drag a mixer everywhere. Every morning I'd have a 1 cubic yard tub of pre mixed mortar loaded into the back on my old 77 Blazer...

It's no different than a 1/2 ton pick-up, just a lot less room in the 'bed'.

I once had 6500 lbs in the back of an old 68 F100 I had. Drove about 10 miles or so to a job site and decided getting that kind of load delivered was a better idea. :D

It's easy to get stupid with masonry stuff...and when my Dad was doing that fulltime everyone used a 3/4 ton pick-up. Now every Mason's truck I see out there is 5 ton minimum.

Rene
 
I got pulled over one time with 17 people in my burb. Don't know the weight but that's a lot of bodies!
 
Last late fall/winter/early spring I worked in a flooring tile distributor's warehouse. I can't tell you the number of times I put crazy loads in people's trucks. ALWAYS tried to explain to them what was happening but they just kept telling me to go. Their problem as soon as I back out the forks.

3000lbs in a 2wd Toyota pickup? NO PROBLEM!

5500lbs in a 20ish year old's Z71 with all the gaudy kid/flash bolt ons? "IT'LL TAKE IT!"

Had two Mexicans get confused when I told them I could not PHYSICALLY fit 2 skids of tile into their SWB Nissan pickup and that it would crush the truck's rear suspension. With one pallet (that we had to hand load due to it not fitting in the truck) the axle was PINNED to the bump stops.
tRustyK5 said:
I'd say 2500lbs or so when I used to lay bricks with my Dad. The supply place we used had a pre-mixed mortar set-up that saved us a lot of time, as well as saved having to drag a mixer everywhere. Every morning I'd have a 1 cubic yard tub of pre mixed mortar loaded into the back on my old 77 Blazer...

It's no different than a 1/2 ton pick-up, just a lot less room in the 'bed'.

I once had 6500 lbs in the back of an old 68 F100 I had. Drove about 10 miles or so to a job site and decided getting that kind of load delivered was a better idea. :D

It's easy to get stupid with masonry stuff...and when my Dad was doing that fulltime everyone used a 3/4 ton pick-up. Now every Mason's truck I see out there is 5 ton minimum.

Rene
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We were leaving a party that got busted and everybody jumped in my rig. Got pulled over down the block. I didn't get a ticket though:D
 
Went to pick up my brother from a party and everyone wanted a ride. Ended up carrying 19 people in my Blazer. It was stock at that time. I had to use Lo to climb a short but very steep hill.

That's about 2,300lbs. Those are the same springs I'm using with a shackle flip now.
 
The most I put in my blazer was 3500lbs and it could have taken more.
I have put more in a peugeot station wagon though, 4500lbs of tiles one time, cunderblocks another time, and then one time I had 26 people in that station wagon, and it had a 2.0 litre 4 banger.:whistle:
 
Reminds me of the picture of a Suzuki Samurai in Africa with a 12.7mm (.50 cal) DShka machine gun attached a roll bar that looks like exhaust pipe and about 15 guys with AK's jammed in, on, and hanging off it.
 
I never used my Blazers much for hauling,but my pickups have been overloaded many times..my old '77 K2500 had a flatbed I made from 4" channel iron pallet racking,they had a beam every 11",the bed alone weighed 900 lbs!..I put a small crane hoist on it with a 1500 lb winch,and I used to haul all kinds of stuff for people,delivered engines and parts for junkyards,etc....one day a friend at one junkyard wanted to scrap a huge 6 cylinder Detroit Diesel from an old Allis-Chalmers bulldozer--his 1700 Trojan forkloader had difficulty picking the engine up,and when he lowered it into my trucks bed carefully,it pushed right thru the plywood decking!:doah:...I made it to the scrapyard 3 miles away OK,when I got the thing unloaded and weighed,I found I had 4,250 lbs on my truck!..the cab and bed were slamming together all the way there,and I felt the floor moving too,the cab had been all patched up ...
On my way back to the junkyard,I had to make a real sharp turn,almost a U-turn,and when I went to turn the steering wheel,suddenly it broke free and it spun around like nothing was connected,and I ran up onto the front lawn of a guys home thats right there that I knew!--the darn rag joint had ripped apart,if that thing had broke with the load in the bed,I would not be here to type this probably!..:eek:...I thought the cab was going to come off the truck when the guy used the electromagnet crane to pick up the engine at the scrapyard,and evidently it did move far enough to rip the rag joint apart,it was holding by a thread evidently,and that sharp turn was the breaking point!...glad I wasn't on my way home going 50 on the highway when it failed!..but the rest of the truck held up fine,despite its frame being very thin in spots,and the leafs were so rusted they looked like barnacles were growing on them...

I used to load my '56 3200 Chevy truck to the top of the cab with car & truck batteries,one day I hauled in over 200 of them,back in '78 when they were bringing 5.75 each for a typical car battery--I blew out one back tire about 1/4 mile from the scrapyard entrance,and when I drove over the scales,the other rear tire exploded ,they had to push me off the scale with a loader!..the load weighed nearly 3500 lbs and I got almost 1800 dollars for the batteries!..but I had to climb a mountain of junk vehicles to remove two rims & tires off a '66 GMC at the top of the heap,to put on my truckso I could go home!..it was 90 degrees out and 4:30 PM,the guys were NOT happy it took me an hour to get them off the junker and onto my truck,they had to stay late!...the truck never had any other problems,I just had a hard time keeping tires on it,I overloaded that thing dozens of times..of course,the frames on those old beasts are 3/8" thick steel too,and GOOD steel,not the recycled crap we get now!..
 
Most I've had in my truck was about 1500 pounds, 3/4 axles, 4.10 and 4inches of lift, looked a bit low in the back but nothing too bad, only drove 5 or 6 miles then unloaded the crap into the scrapyard, seemed to handle it fine. Towed my uncles f250 with a chain about 15 miles, not really the same thing but it was funny, lol.

I used to work at Lowes, home improvement store. Two men of the Mexican persuasion wanted 2 pallets of 18" x 18" stones in the back of their beat up f150, told them it wasn't going to work out well, they insisted, I did it with a smile on my face. About an hour later I'm driving down the road going to get lunch, see them pulled over, both rear tires must of been rubbing constantly and blew out maybe a mile away. Ohhh how we laughed(Me and the guy who was working with me when we loaded it).
 
3 BB chevys from carbs to pans.. one complete together engine and the other 2 in pieces.. i have custom heavy duty springs in the rear and she didnt sag at all... and i had to fold up the rear seat to get it all in!!
 
Havent carried much in my k5, But just the other day at work at the tire shop i had to load 40 good sized tires into a f150 longbed. I had them stacked inside behind the seats on the pass. seat and stacked above the roof in the bed. Not to mention it was a 18 mile drive back to the store. I was going 40 or so on the freeway the whole way back. I insisted stacking over the bed was unsafe but everyone just said ''it'll stay''. It barely did thanks to me driving it like a semi.
 
its all fun and games until you get in an accedent. I had a pallet of tile in the back of my 04 silverado and got cut off in traffic. slammed on the brakes and the pallet of tile smashed into the cab. exploded the back window all over my head and pushed the bed 4" into the cab.

when I think of all the tile, hardibacker AND tools i used to carry in my burb with nothing separating them from me in there, I'm damn lucky I never piled it up. I'd have been both crushed and impailed with tile and trowels.

I also have a pic of my old man with our family dodge ramcharger stuffed with firewood- about 6-7 foot lenghts stuffed floor to roof with gate down and hatch up....
 
Back in 1987,I bought a 1971 GMC K1500,my first plow truck...after we had a few deeo snowfalls,I saw it would need weight in the bed to move the deep drifts of heavy wet snow more effectively,so I got a blue tarp,but it in the bed up over the sides,and went to the town DPW barn,where you can get sand free--they normally wont load your truck for you,you must shovel it by hand (and anyone who has filled an 8' bed to the top in 20 degree weather knows how much THAT sucks!)--but the worker there was filling up the towns plow/sander trucks with a big loader,and he felt bad for me,seeing me busting my hump trying to fill it with a shovel,so he came over with a full bucket and dumped it in my truck bed--it filled it to the top,with a heap in the middle almost as high as the cab roof...I thanked him and drove off,and he had an evil grin on his face,like he was expecting my springs to snap or the axle to break,but I drove it away like it was nothing..someone had beefed up the rear springs,they had TEN leafs on each side!..the truck only went down about 3"!..

I left the sand in it all winter,and shoveled some out as the season passed when I needed sand for icy spots om my driveway & steps...one day I got a big oil tank for scrap (275 gal.) and I took it to the scrapyard--after I dumped it off,I weighed in at the scales on my way out,and the truck still weighed over 8000 lbs ,with the sand about level with the bed,which had gotten very wet over the winter!..that truck only had the stock 2 leaf front springs too,with a 7.5' Fisher plow on it,it looked like the front end was dragging,and the rear had a foot of clearance between the tires and fenderwells!..the ride was "interesting" to say the least--the front rode nice and smooth,the rear end felt like it had NO springs!..thing bounced like a pogo stick when empty!..
 
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