hauling with a lifted 4x4

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Agree with BMchevy1979...

I have a 4 inch lift with 35's, sm465. I recently towed by 2300lb boat, 800lb trailer, probably 400lb of gear in boat, and all of 800lb in the bed of the truck. We were going on our annual camping trip, the bed of the truck carried about 1/2 face cord of wood, 4 fully filled and heavy coolers, as well as our heaviest totes of camping gear. I do concur about the wide RPM gap between gears on the 465. Truck did better than I expected it to, but it made we want a gear vendors splitter REALLY bad! LOL! Still though, for an old girl she did A-OK by me... got right around 9.5 mpg on that trip in the hilly Adirondack Park in northern NYS..

I'm running an 8" drop hitch and it is about as perfect as can be reasonably expected for both of my boat trailers, camper and homemade flat bed for hauling ATV's. If the weight of a trailer and load you are hooking to seems to need torsion bars you probably shouldnt be towing it with a lifted truck an 35's.