Quote Originally Posted by travhous View Post
With my 360 swap I set the engine back as far as I could and with aluminum head and relocating the battery to the back of the truck front axle weight is 1760 lbs with me in it. According to the service manual the front gross axle weight is 1810 lbs. I'm 50 lbs under gross axle weight although I'm running an entire rebuilt stock front suspension with polyurethane bushings and I feel the truck rides and drive better with the extra weight. Manual steering is a lot heavier, but not terrible.

I was lucky as I was able to retain nearly the same front/rear weight distribution as stock.
Your truck might be the one tonne rated version which has heavier duty stabiliser bar/UCA pivot etc. The truck will probably feel more 'compliant' with the extra weight and slight change in distribution.