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plow on a 2022 F-150 SuperCrew without the plow prep package, which plow and what breaks?

AnsweredAsked by moorhead_f150Sep 6, 2025in Towing, hauling and plowing

moorhead_f150OP

Daily DriverMoorhead, MN

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Joined Aug 2025

2022 F-150 XLT SuperCrew 4x4, 3.5, no snow plow prep package on the window sticker. i have a 300 foot gravel driveway in Moorhead and my mother's place in Glyndon, and i am done paying 60 dollars a push. not a business, two driveways, maybe 15 pushes a winter.

which plow is realistic on a half ton without the prep package, and what do the guys who actually run half tons all winter see break first? i keep reading the front end hates it and i keep seeing F-150s with plows on them all over Clay County.

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plow_guy_brainerd

Work TruckBrainerd, MN

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Joined Aug 2025

i run three half tons on residential driveways around Brainerd and Baxter, two F-150s and a Silverado, about 60 driveways between them, so here is what actually happens.

plow: for a SuperCrew with no prep package you want a 7 foot 6 half ton plow, Boss HTX or Fisher HT or the Western HTS, all around 400 to 430 lbs on the front end. do not put an 8 foot V on it, do not put a commercial straight blade on it. the front axle rating on your door sticker is around 3,400 and you will be over it with the blade up and a full tank. an HTX installed at a shop in West Fargo is going to be 6,000 to 6,500 with the mount and wiring.

what breaks, in the order i have replaced them: front hub bearings, both Fords, around 60 to 70k, they take the shock every time the blade drops. then the front springs sag, the nose sits an inch low with the plow up, i put Timbren bump stops in for 240 and it stopped bottoming. then lower control arm bushings. the 10 speed and the 3.5 have never cared. alternator is fine at your 15 pushes, it is the guys running lights and a spreader all night who cook them.

the thing nobody tells you: 600 lbs of sandbags over the rear axle, always, or the back end goes wherever it wants when you push. and do not push the pile onto or across the road, MnDOT and the county ticket for it and it is on you if somebody hits the pile. the state page on that is at dot.state.mn.us, and the 511 road conditions live there too for when you are done with the driveway and want to go somewhere.

al_turns_wrenches

High MilerFargo, ND

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Joined Aug 2025

Ford side of it. the plow prep package on the 22 is a heavier front spring, a bigger alternator and a plow mode in the body module that turns off the parking sensors and the lane camera when the blade is up. without it the shop can still hang a half ton plow, but the front springs are going to sag exactly like the Brainerd guy said. Timbrens are the cheap fix, a set of the prep package springs off a wrecked truck is the better one and they are about 300 used. and get the factory Hankooks off it before you plow, they are an all season with a snowflake stamp and they are the worst part of a 22 F-150 in winter.

silverado_since_04

High MilerMitchell, SD

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Joined Aug 2025

tires, since al opened it. i run BFG KO2s all year on the 23 in Mitchell, plow and all. an all terrain with the three peak snowflake is fine for pushing snow if you have weight in the bed. the guys in the ditch in January are the ones on highway tires with an empty bed, not the ones on KO2s. i am not buying a second set of wheels for four months.

tundra_holdout

High MilerBillings, MT

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Joined Aug 2025

disagree and i will die on this. a KO2 is a summer tire with big lugs. on packed ice at 10 degrees it is a hockey puck, the compound is too hard. Blizzak DM-V2 on the stock wheels from thanksgiving to april, KO2s the rest of the year. the difference in stopping distance on the I-90 ice around Billings is about a truck length, and a truck length is the whole thing. a second set of steel wheels is 400 dollars once.

plow_guy_brainerd

Work TruckBrainerd, MN

Posts 12
Joined Aug 2025

both right and both wrong. an all terrain with the snowflake will push snow fine. it will not stop on the glare ice that forms at the end of every driveway after you push it. on the plow trucks i run Blizzak DM-V2 on the two F-150s and Nokian Hakkapeliitta R5 on the Silverado, no studs because Minnesota does not allow them, and 600 lbs of sand. the KO2 crowd is fine until the day they are not, and that day is usually at a stop sign at the bottom of a hill. buy the second set of wheels.

moorhead_f150OP

Daily DriverMoorhead, MN

Posts 14
Joined Aug 2025

done. Boss HTX 7 foot 6 installed at a shop in West Fargo, 6,180 with the mount, wiring and the controller. Timbrens in the front, 240, took an hour. found a set of steel wheels off a fleet truck on marketplace for 200 and put Blizzak DM-V2s on them, 940 mounted. sandbags, 12 of them at 50 lbs from Menards. 7,560 all in, which is 126 pushes at 60 dollars, so about 8 winters to break even. plow mode is not a thing without the prep package, so the parking sensors scream at the blade until you turn them off in the menu every start. snow is supposed to come tuesday.

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