YouTube user WhistlinDiesel has a worldwide reputation of a rich weirdo with a penchant for turning brand-new vehicles into pathetic heaps of scrap metal. A couple weeks ago, he decided to test the Ford F-350 Super Duty for maximum load capacity.
According to him, he got tired of listening to critics say that modern aluminum trucks could no longer transport heavy cargo like steel-frame ones from the past used to. In the end, he came up with a ‘concrete proof’ of the opposite.
Acting in his usual fashion, WhistlinDiesel fitted his truck with hydraulic coilover-based suspension lift and poured around 13,000 pounds (barely under six metric tons) of concrete into the bed. This put almost twice the maximum allowed load onto the suspension (max.: 7,250 lbs / 3.3 metric tons). Proving unsympathetic to the plight, he got behind the steering wheel and put the pickup through a series of stress tests, including launch, deceleration, highway cruising, and even doing donuts in a dirt field.
At the end of the day, the Ford F-350 had its lower body essentially destroyed, the truck bed warped and one of the front fenders ripped off. The man still called it a successful test.