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What is the most that you have hauled or towed and with what model(what motor)?

I can't seem to find examples of anyone towing or hauling with their trucks.

 

Does anyone know, from literature or experience, what the tailgate weight limit is? Any problems with faulty tailgates?

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I haul engines, transmissions, quads, and whatever else i can in the back of mine. Never had one hit the bump stops, but drives fine. I just always allow my self plenty of braking time just in case.... micromachinery i think towed a z car with his 521 :D

 

my truck empty is around 2300lbs also.

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Non-US spec 520s, 521, and 620s listed the payload of around 2055 lbs. US spec was always 1100 lbs except the cab/chassis model. Didn't mean they weren't capable of more, most '73-74 620s I've seen have very heavy spring packs (fewer but thicker leaves) compared to the later ones. By '79 they were getting kind of soft.

 

Difference? Not much, except that non-US spec were almost always longbeds. But the spring packs and axles were rated for the same weight. Must have been a North American safety thing. My Mom's Ranger is listed as a half-ton, and it's on the bump stops well before my '74. 2K in a unmolested 620 isn't impossible. Stopping distance is the big thing. I remember my folks hauling full bedloads of gravel with my Mom's 620 back in the 80s, and bedloads of chopped green wood. My dad worried about overheating the brakes but not with the load, when full it rode pretty nice.

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That's a lot of lettuce. :o

 

Yup, about 90 20lb boxes of lettuce. It looked like I had a camper on the back. I had a neighbor that worked about 50 miles away in Toronto at a produce company. He would bring the company truck home at night with spoiled shit in it. I fed it to the pigs and they loved it!

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When we moved onto our place we hauled water to a cistern for the first year. "77 extra cab with a couple of light years on it and a 250 gallon plastic tank in the back. Water is about 8 pounds to the gallon and I would fill about 3/4 full. Steering was interesting, but it always made it the 15 miles home.

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I know that I've had 1400 pounds of scrap metal in mine, went over a scale so I got accurate weights. Had a few loads of wet leaves that felt about the same. They do have a tendency to drive a bit nicer, and the lead time for stopping is much bigger, think tractor trailer mentality. I have noticed on my '73, it does have a pretty healthy spring pack, much beefier than the '75 I have sitting out back.

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I used my 620 as a work truck for my remodel job everyday for three years. Carrying massive loads of drywall, dirt, tile. You name it. It rode on the bump stops but never had any issues. Also, I'd like to add. It's pretty slammed. I've recently retired it for work and now use a big ol' Ford for hauling. The guys at the dump all know me as "That Datsun guy." I had to inch up on the curb to get around their massive speedbumps down at the dump. Got pretty good at perfecting the art of not bottoming out. :)

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hauled wood from moms place, and from around my house, plus a cab up from Portland. all with my factory L16 4spd. braking was hairy but i made it no problem. The Black Walnut was the worst as that stuff is heavy but it made it no problem.

 

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I went from Calif. to Indiana then picked up this miget with spare rear end, front end, body, motor, inand out boxs and nerf bars then drove pack to Calif. She cruised at 75 mph all the way.

 

 

hauled wood from moms place, and from around my house, plus a cab up from Portland. all with my factory L16 4spd. braking was hairy but i made it no problem. The Black Walnut was the worst as that stuff is heavy but it made it no problem.

 

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You guys are serious about you hauling. I have no doubts that the 620 will do what I need it to do; I just need to weld in better tie down rings.

 

 

 

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soo i been waiting a 70's KC truck for a while.

do you guys think it would be able to tow something like this

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the specs are here

http://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2012-Cruiser-RV-LLC-FUN-FINDER-X-139-109358790

 

just need something small for me and my GF, if and that is a big if i get the truck i want to do a KA swap

 

should towing this be a problem??

 

 

edit-  this is what i really want

http://www.rrvintagetrailers.com/aljoa.html

or this would be cool too

http://www.socalteardrops.com/index.php

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My 620 with a ka24de. Just hauled a 327 chevy engine with 2 tires, engine hoist and a bunch of tools. Also had the manifolds etc. and two people in it. All of that on only two leaf springs, had no issues at all.

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