You are getting answers all over the board. I will still suggest you load your navigator with fuel, family an gear and take it to a CAT scale and get your "real" number of the vehicle weight and compare this to your GVWR. You will then have a real starting point.
I agree
You can add all the do dads you want the payload capacity doesn’t change.you can do all sorts of things to move the weight around. It doesn’t change the payload capacity of the Navigator.
The Lincoln Mercury site says Your Navigator is 1,677 to 1,703 lbs. that’s a fact
The GD site rates the trailer...that number is a fact
Let’s face it....you can make fun about 2500 / 3500 trucks but look around .
Figure out by sight how many trailers over 7000 lbs are being pulled by SUV. Very few in what I’ve seen.
I’ll bet there is a reason.
Maybe the truckers are all stupid.....maybe they believe the figures their trucks and trailers are rated at.
Rated by experts not opinion makers on an Internet forum,
Maybe these truck drivers not only believe in getting by by the skin of their teeth or maybe they see their and others safeties are the primary concern.
I say follow the experts advice ( the ones who make the equipment) not the average joes like me who can make up anything the want on the internet. The equipment makers can be sued if their advice is incorrect. Nothing happens to us advice givers if we are wrong.
Let’s apply the Thomas Paine Common Sense standard
By all standards the Navigator is a beautiful passenger vehicle. No one uses them to pull heavy construction equipment.
They do use my 2500 or others trucks however. Certain vehicles are made for certain things. Trucks pull things and can carry people because of their payload capacity and suspensions. They can carry people to. Lincoln Navigators are premier passenger carriers. They both have strong engines BUT one has a definitely different suspension made for CARRYING .