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Originally Posted by 6130
Modern 3/4-ton and one-ton trucks come with all of those things too.
Half-ton trucks may be better than they used to be in some ways, but half-ton trucks have never come with full-floating rear axles or load range "E" tires, and those things were standard on 3/4-ton trucks for many, many years.
Conversely, 3/4-ton trucks have never come on P-metric (passenger car) tires, and 3/4 ton trucks have never had their rear axles held in by something as flimsy as C-clips.
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No, they're not a floating axle, but in the case of a Ford for many years now they've been a 9.75" ring gear with 35 spline axles. I'm sure the other brands are comparable. They've got great big disk brakes and your comments about the axles breaking and coming out is just fearmongering, show me all of the examples of that actually happening. As for the tires, I just looked up specs on an 18 F150, I see OEM tires with a load rating of over 2500lbs each. More than adequate for what Dan wants to do.
The current "half tons" which are rated for payloads as high as 3270 and towing as high as 13200 will do this easily and safely. No, I wouldn't feel safe in one with my 30' tag in the wind even though the truck is rated high enough for it, but we're talking about Dan towing only 5800 lbs here.