Ford Gas Chassis for 38 footers ?
Looking again at a switch from fifth wheel to motor home again, looked around last year and was very disappointed with quality. My current question is for those that have larger gas motor homes on the...
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Devocamper wrote:
Looking again at a switch from fifth wheel to motor home again, looked around last year and was very disappointed with quality. My current question is for those that have larger gas motor homes on the ford chassis 26K and how they handle the load? It seems from my test drives of coaches in the 36 foot range were taxing the chassis. I have found two floor plans that we like but they are 38 footers, the Winnebago adventurer 38 Q and the Itasca same model as well as the newmar canyon star 3914 . Just looking for real world advise on how these coaches handle long grades towing a small suv or should I be looking at a diesel in this size?
Thanks
Mike
we have a 2016 Itasca Suncruiser 38Q-U1. this is essentially a 2015 38Q made for just a short time in '16 before the U2 models were produced. apart from a totally different cab and a 6-speed tranny, the U1 model is identical to the 2015 F53. we've got a bit over 5K miles on it in the past 12-months and so far, so good. we tow a 3800-lb Jeep Liberty and while we haven't pulled over the rockies or Appalachians yet we have pulled up some grade, most notably the climb up SB I-17 from Camp Verde, AZ. while we didn't make that climb as fast as I would've liked (55-mph) about the slowest we got was 30-35 mph. most of the time we were 40-45 mph. not bad. i was in 2nd most of the time but didn't want to tax the engine too much and so dumped it down to 1st in the steepest parts.
