Fuel for Thought

Max Load

This is the posture of a fully loaded sprinter. That means a gross weight of 8550 lbs. You’ve seen them slung low, so this set of photos is for comparison. Anything lower than this means it’s overloaded. I keep the center of gravity of the cargo about a foot forward of the rear axle.

Nothing squashed or just doesn’t look right.

The spring under the last three hundred pounds of rated capacity sits the axle at about a half inch from the rubber frame bumper. In other words, it I took two or three hundred pounds off of the van, this picture would look about the same.

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