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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / October 2005CAN I TOW THIS BOAT?
I want to tow a significant distance a boat and trailer weighing about 8,000 to 9,000 pounds with my 1973 Ford pick-up, which has about 60,000 actual miles. The plate on the door, which I can't decipher, reads: F10YPM80143 Max. GVW 4,800 Model F102 Trans G Axle 02 Cert. net HP 151 RPM 4000 DSO 58 Is this possible, or am I asking for trouble???? Thanks. Ned > I want to tow a significant distance a boat and trailer weighing about > 8,000 to 9,000 pounds with my 1973 Ford pick-up, which has about 60,000 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks. > Ned > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Thanks. > Ned At a guess, you would be seriously overloaded. But you can find out a bit more by entering the VIN at <https://www.fleet.ford.com/maintenance/vin_tools/default.asp>. Or <http://www.fordf150.net/howto/decodevin2.php> suggests that your truck has a 360 V8, with a 2-barrel carb, and was assembled at Twin Cities. <http://www.fordification.com/data-1972.htm> indicates all this, plus a production date of October, 1971, and a rear axle with a 4.00:1 ratio and 3300-lb. load capacity. It apparently was a special order through a dealer in the Twin Cities region. Finally, <http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/~mrm/bronco/ftvin.cgi> gives Model Year: 72 Series: F100 - 4x2 Pickup Engine: 8 Cyl, 360ci, 2bbl Assembly Plant: St. Paul Transmission: The only information provided is Automatic. My guess is C6 Front Axle: No code selected Rear Axle: 3.00 3300lb Ford  Signature-Stephen H. Westin Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors. >I want to tow a significant distance a boat and trailer weighing about >8,000 to 9,000 pounds with my 1973 Ford pick-up, which has about 60,000 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Thanks. >Ned I wouldn't recommend it. It's certainly over the capacity of that truck.
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