Long story short I found out I have the lightest rear leaf springs ford makes for their trucks, 2700 pound springs (a local truck place ran the leaf spring serial numbers for me). I had to drive 60 mph to keep it in my lane. The back end of the truck sagged way down and the front end was light. The first time I took the pickup with the camper out on the interstate, I almost wrecked. I bought the truck, had a B&W 5th wheel turnover ball installed and installed the B&W 5th wheel companion system. This was over 3,000 pounds more than my camper weighs. The Ford booklet on SuperDuty pickups listed this package as having a 5th wheel towing capacity of just over 15,000 pounds. This pickup was listed as having the camper package and the towing package and it had the Ford 6.7 Powerstroke diesel.
This F250 had everything supposedly needed to tow a 5th wheel camper and pull my fishing boat behind the camper. I was looking for a pickup to replace my 2006 HD2500 Chevy Durmax. I purchased off the lot a new 2016 Ford F250 SuperDuty Lariat 4 door crew cab short box, 4 x4.
