Quote Originally Posted by tre View Post
This is what I get out of this thread:

Ford hitches don't match the tow rating of the truck so you have to use a weight distributing hitch but weight distributing hitches don't work with boat trailers so you have to use your Ford without a weight distributing hitch which means you can't use your Ford to tow most modern wekeboats unless you remove the stock hitch and upgrade.

Did I summarize correctly?
You forgot that about Ford promoting their trucks towing more than the weight carrying capacity of the hitch. And also that no one has really heard about any failures despite people "overloading" them all the time.