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Math behind overlanding: Exceed truck weight limit?
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<blockquote data-quote="zombiekiller" data-source="post: 1484581" data-attributes="member: 25186"><p>My idea of "Overlanding" isnt going slow or carrying a house full of supplies with me.</p><p></p><p>I regularly take 750-1500 mile trips in my raptor and essentially live out of it, except I prefer to stay in a hotel for the night. If I were to be sleeping under the stars, I'd add another 200 Lbs of gear and be completely fine with it.</p><p></p><p>My point in my commentary is twofold:</p><p></p><p>1. Deaver leafsprings and upgraded shocks will facilitate being able to carry whatever loadout you want.</p><p></p><p>2. Don't go overboard on all the fancy crap before you actually use the truck for the purpose.</p><p></p><p>I can't tell you how many "Overlanding approved" piles of crap that I've tried on my truck and either threw out while on the trip (in town) or tore off the truck and tossed into the scrap pile.</p><p></p><p>This goes for some of the spendier stuff too. I've watched bed slides, decked setups, SWAG action packer mounts All die very quick deaths in Baja (I've launched an action packer about 80 ft into the air when the swag mount let loose. Some of my stuff is still probably laying around hammertown, or someone has put it to good use by now) and I've seen bed walls crumple with the racks on them.</p><p></p><p>My offroad trips tend to consist of Mexico and the SW U.S. If you're headed to a different climate and/or prefer to go slow like the jeep crowd, disregard my commentary completely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zombiekiller, post: 1484581, member: 25186"] My idea of "Overlanding" isnt going slow or carrying a house full of supplies with me. I regularly take 750-1500 mile trips in my raptor and essentially live out of it, except I prefer to stay in a hotel for the night. If I were to be sleeping under the stars, I'd add another 200 Lbs of gear and be completely fine with it. My point in my commentary is twofold: 1. Deaver leafsprings and upgraded shocks will facilitate being able to carry whatever loadout you want. 2. Don't go overboard on all the fancy crap before you actually use the truck for the purpose. I can't tell you how many "Overlanding approved" piles of crap that I've tried on my truck and either threw out while on the trip (in town) or tore off the truck and tossed into the scrap pile. This goes for some of the spendier stuff too. I've watched bed slides, decked setups, SWAG action packer mounts All die very quick deaths in Baja (I've launched an action packer about 80 ft into the air when the swag mount let loose. Some of my stuff is still probably laying around hammertown, or someone has put it to good use by now) and I've seen bed walls crumple with the racks on them. My offroad trips tend to consist of Mexico and the SW U.S. If you're headed to a different climate and/or prefer to go slow like the jeep crowd, disregard my commentary completely. [/QUOTE]
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