Real World Weight

[amschind]

CAT scales are very easy to use, and cost about 10 minutes and $14. I have a '21 PB 4x4 #7350 GVWR; #4150 rear axle with a bunch of garbage bolted to it, so I decided to get a weight. With a full gas tank and all of my stuff, I got 3660 front/3000 rear total #6660. Add #150 of me and you have #6810, leaving ~#1100 on the rear axle and #540 on overall payload.

Anyway, there are plenty of payload sticker threads and maybe too few CAT scale vs GVWR threads. Feel free to add to this one.

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[Big Dog Daddy]

That's a great idea, I've been thinking of doing this with my truck. I wasn’t sure that my wheel base would be long enough to capture the front and rear axle weights. My truck is a 145" wheel base, what was yours?

 

[amschind]

That's a great idea, I've been thinking of doing this with my truck. I wasn’t sure that my wheel base would be long enough to capture the front and rear axle weights. My truck is a 145" wheel base, what was yours?

145". Even a reg cab short bed would be able to get its wheels close enough.

 

[powerboatr]

I have used our grain mill scale a few times. Park front axle on it and leave rears on solid ground
Take the weight. Then pull entire vehicle on scale and subtract front axle from total to get rear axle.
Our feed store let's you do it free as long as it's open woth no grain trucks waiting
Can say enough for knowing your real weight. Especially if you plan to pull a trailer or load up the bed.
Thanks for putting a reminder thread out there...

 

[Buyer2021]

Complete OE truck specs in my signature block. Aftermarket accessories installed:

• B&W Turnoverball underbed gooseball hitch
• In-bed trailer wiring harness and connector box (7-pin + 12-pin)
• Line-X including tailgate
• Cast aluminum wheel-to-wheel running boards
• Retractable rear corner bumper step (AMP designs type)
• Billstein 5100 all four corners (0# net weight change from OE?)
• Rear spacer blocks removed (weight reduction)
• Steeda rear anti-sway bar
• Dometic in-console refrigerator
• H6>H8 battery upgrade

Driver @ 175#
Misc stuff I always have in underseat storage (~25# ?)
Full 36 gallon tank

CAT Scale data with items listed above:

• Steer Axle = 3260#
• Drive Axle = 2340#
• Gross Weight = 5600# (pure coincidence it's a nice round number)

Placard Data for the VIN:

• Front GAWR = 3450#
• Rear GAWR = 3800#
• GVWR = 7050#
• 'Payload' = 1848#

Ya need all the info for the 'whole picture' to be meaningful

 

[Probity]

CAT scales are very easy to use, and cost about 10 minutes and $14. I have a '21 PB 4x4 #7350 GVWR; #4150 rear axle with a bunch of garbage bolted to it, so I decided to get a weight. With a full gas tank and all of my stuff, I got 3660 front/3000 rear total #6660. Add #150 of me and you have #6810, leaving ~#1100 on the rear axle and #540 on overall payload.

Anyway, there are plenty of payload sticker threads and maybe too few CAT scale vs GVWR threads. Feel free to add to this one.

I see from your truck details you've added a lot of stuff.

Just curious, what did your PB truck weight before you added stuff (GVWR - doorjamb payload#)?

 

[UGADawg96]

Y'all some skinny dudes. lol.

 

[amschind]

I see from your truck details you've added a lot of stuff.

Just curious, what did your PB truck weight before you added stuff (GVWR - doorjamb payload#)?

Full skid plates, front and rear Fab Fours bumpers, ARE CX Revo shell, a small fridge in the back, heavier tires (BFG KO2s at stock size). I don't know what the truck weighed pre-stuff, and I guess my point for this thread is that the bone stock weight doesn't really matter.

 

[amschind]

Y'all some skinny dudes. lol.

I have weighed between 145-155 since my jr year of HS (which was 2001.....man.....the years fly by, don't they?).

 

[Probity]

Full skid plates, front and rear Fab Fours bumpers, ARE CX Revo shell, a small fridge in the back, heavier tires (BFG KO2s at stock size). I don't know what the truck weighed pre-stuff, and I guess my point for this thread is that the bone stock weight doesn't really matter.

I get that "it weighs what it weighs", I was just curious what that was for a PB before add-ons. If your payload sticker is ~1600 lb then it weighed ~5750 lb and you've put ~910 lbs of stuff on it, etc. It is what it is.

 

[amschind]

I get that "it weighs what it weighs", I was just curious what that was for a PB before add-ons. If your payload sticker is ~1600 lb then it weighed ~5750 lb and you've put ~910 lbs of stuff on it, etc. It is what it is.

And that's kind of my point. You're asking the guy who bought and paid for all of that stuff and I can't recall most of it without looking. Thinking harder, I have some basic first aid stuff, a pack where I could walk to a town if my truck died in the middle of nowhere, air compressor, small toolkit, tongue weight scale, recovery boards, Built right seat backs/bed mounts, jack and jack stands, chainsaw and extension cord, equalizer hitch and bars, DD lights all over the place, chainsaw chaps, various bits and pieces.

What I was getting at in the original post is that most vehicles accumulate the things that we use, and trucks and/or vehicles that get used on longer journeys tend to accumulate more of it. So the half ton that gets used to ferry me around the state for work and occasionally gets used to pull a bunch of weight is at the greatest risk for having a bunch of "where did that come from?" pounds. That was my motivation for weighing it and for encouraging others to do the same.

 

[Buyer2021]

Anyway, there are plenty of payload sticker threads and maybe too few CAT scale vs GVWR threads.

IMO ^that's^ the bottom line ..... too many folks just don't have any real(istic) notion of their actual wights vs their GVWR and GAWR's.

I'm baffled by folks who spend big-bucks and big-effort setting up trucks and trailer rigs but balk at the small-bucks and small-effort of a few CAT Scale passes. Ignorance is not bliss, it's just ignorance.

 

[Samson16]

Y'all some skinny dudes. lol.

Right!?
I was gonna post 185lbs and 3oz in clothes at the doctors last week

Was feeling pretty good till this thread

 

[HammaMan]

Not at all surprised by this. PiggyBoosts are heavy, especially when you take 1 of every bolton available for the truck! I'm just glad mine identifies as a higher GVWR after borrowing fords magic wand. They seem to have taken it back and given the 24s a higher GVWR.

 

[powerboatr]

Right!?
I was gonna post 185lbs and 3oz in clothes at the doctors last week

Was feeling pretty good till this thread

I was 255 in August. Now I am 226/227
I dropped my pants, jacket, phone, hat, and shoes at my doc checkup november
I wanted full credit for dropping the lbs.
So now I have more room to add stuff back in the truck

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