Where do I start?!
I've been wanting to buy a travel trailer for years now and I think I'm finally ready. I rented a 30(ish) ft travel trailer from Ft. Bragg MWR about 6 years ago, and it seemed to work fine. We had 4...
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Askibum02 wrote:
We'd likely do shorter trips, weekends at about 100-200 miles each way. I would also like to do extended trips, like a Western US National Park trip.
I know you said you bought the Eco D in haste and are re thinking its capabilities, but depending on your financial situation in general as well as related to the truck, what you owe, what it's worth, etc, you may have to shell out a bunch of money to upgrade a relatively new truck.
Look at some of the reviews of Eco D trucks pulling campers. Perrysburg dodge boy on here hauls a decent size TT iirc.
I don't worry about payload capacity much (within reason) as suspension is cheap and easy to bolster up a little and if you need heavier tires, that really is of little cost cause you'll need tires anyway soon enough. Either sell the old tires or store em and burn them up when you're not towing heavy. Maybe an aux trans cooler too? Again not expensive if you're handy.
I'd say if you can stay in the 7klb range then your current rig is a very capable vehicle for occasional short trips and the odd x country run.
No, it's no big boy diesel, but 420ft lbs regardless of altitude is as good or better than any engine of 2 decades ago and people hauled big campers then. Plus the added advantage of the robust ZF 8 speed makes for a nice combo.
