{"id":504,"date":"2012-03-31T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/2012\/03\/31\/upgrading-your-truck-for-more-load-capacity\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:33","slug":"upgrading-your-truck-for-more-load-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading my truck for more load capacity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/truck4.jpg\" title=\"knots\" alt=\"knots\" border=\"2\" height=\"260\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"404\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My 1999 F250 is starting to show it age.\u00a0 With over 210 thousand miles the leaf springs in the back have lost some of their bounce.\u00a0 Also the trailers I am towing today have a higher\u00a0 weight then when I started.\u00a0 Last summer I noticed that handling was getting soggy and I had to be careful not to get the trailer swaying.\u00a0 I briefly considered replacing it with a newer F350, but as the truck is otherwise in good condition, choose instead to upgrade the load capacity to around what a new F350 would have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/pdf\/upgrading-truck2012.pdf\" title=\"truck upgrade\" target=\"_blank\">Read how I did it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; My 1999 F250 is starting to show it age.\u00a0 With over 210 thousand miles the leaf springs in the back have lost some of their bounce.\u00a0 Also the trailers I am towing today have a higher\u00a0 weight then when I started.\u00a0 Last summer I noticed that handling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tipstrickstidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10807,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/10807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}