[ATeam]

The product literature puts our Leyman LHLP 4500 lift gate at 1,000 - 1,150 lbs. The amount of weight the weight of the lift gate will take off the front end of the truck will depend on where the rear axle is placed between the front axle and the gate. Think of a teeter-totter fulcrum, and how weight on one end of the teeter totter will affect the other end differently, depending on where the fulcrum is placed.

I'm scratching my head now, trying to remember on our truck how much weight comes off the front axle when say 1,000 lbs. of freight placed in the rear of the box. I want to say 500 lbs. but don't recall for sure. It may be 250 lbs.

Next time we have a heavy-enough load on, I'll swing by a scale and let you know. These numbers used to matter when we first got the truck but finding no overweight front end issues on our Volvo, I stopped thinking about it and forgot how the numbers worked out.