Ford obs heavy towing.

[Shadetreemechanic]

i wouldn't hesitate taking on the mobile home with a Fsuperduty with 5.13 gears. anything else and yes, you are going to kill the clutch.

Started on a hill once and ended up just dumping the clutch then feathering the gas pedal till I could get the clutch to catch.
I had wanted to use my 250. It has 3.55's and I was going to tow in low range, but the trailer has the axles waaaay far to the rear so it had more than a ton of tongue weight. The dually at least held that ok, but the 4.10's didn't cut it.
You can see in the picture the ratchet strap used to keep the dump bed from raising from the tongue weight.
All part of a good redneck weekend.

 

[Shadetreemechanic]

BTW I got another 1000 miles out of the clutch. Gave up when the farm help was driving it through a field towing a chipper. He was really pleasantly surprised when I didn't chew his ass for it.

 

[Hotshotwedge]

What year is your truck? Looks like the idi. Is it the Les or no? If not how does it handle the load?

It is a 95 turbo does great but is not for sale cheap since I need head gaskets now. But it was doing great.

 

[Sidewinded_idi]

It is a 95 turbo does great but is not for sale cheap since I need head gaskets now. But it was doing great.

It is for sale cheap? Or not sorry trying to clarify