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UncleFudd
Explorer
May 13, 2013

We Took Your Advice Ordered a Dually

Your advice and experience won over my desire to make a SRW short bed tow vehicle work. The Cedar Creek requires a dual wheel truck so we ordered a Ford crew cab long bed w/DRW including the factory installed 25K Reese hitch. There is a wide gap between the maximum SRW and DRW. If they made just one model somwhere in the gap that would work. Neither Ford or GM has one.
Thanks for your complete analysis and sound advice.

Now that we have the big problems settled Cedar Creek ordered & will take forever to get delivery. Cedar Creek say they can't find enough delivery personnel. And the TV ordered, we are looking for a bed cover.
The Retrax gets a lot of good reviews but is expensive & not leakproof.
What are your choices?
Thanks still again,
Jim

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  • joebedford's avatar
    joebedford
    Nomad III
    May 13, 2013
    UncleFudd wrote:
    There is a wide gap between the maximum SRW and DRW. If they made just one model somwhere in the gap that would work. Neither Ford or GM has one.
    Congrats on the new truck.

    Just curious: what rating are you referring to and how big is the gap?
  • Travlingman's avatar
    Travlingman
    Explorer II
    May 13, 2013
    Congrats on the new truck and camper. Looks like you did well. I have Trifecta tri-fold cover that does a good job. Pics of the new rig and camper when they arrive.
  • ReneeG's avatar
    ReneeG
    Explorer
    May 13, 2013
    Good choice on the dually. You'll never regret having too much truck. Same happened to us and what a pleasure to tow now. We live in a mountainous region so we tow with confidence now instead of with that butt pucker factor of 10.
  • dbbls's avatar
    dbbls
    Explorer
    May 13, 2013
    You will be amazed when you start towing with the dually. Good choice. Regarding a cover, I went with a soft roll up cover. There are several good ones out there. Mine is a TruXcedo.
  • christopherglen's avatar
    christopherglen
    Explorer
    May 13, 2013
    The drawback on not having a urea tank is requiring the several times the EGR flow to meet emission requirements. And FWIW the new cummins engines DO NOT meet them, cummins is burning epa credits it earned from 07 model year+ that exceeded the 07 requirements.
  • silvercorvette's avatar
    silvercorvette
    Explorer
    May 13, 2013
    Gas or diesel?

    I bought a Doge (new in 2010) diesel because both Ford and Chevy have a pee tank to meet emission laws and Dodge did not require it. Form what I understand Urea only needs to be added at every oil change, as far as I was concerned it was an extra expense I did not want to deal with.

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