Advice on Ford F150 Ecoboost
Today I have a 1/2 ton Yukon XL Denali AWD. It does ok with my 6000lb lightweight TT here in the midwest but I dont really trust it across country and my tranny is getting close to needing replaced. ...
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Our original TV was a 2013 F150 Ecoboost. Our camper is 6885 shipping weight, so closer to maybe 8,000-8,500 loaded up. It was not fun to pull with that Ecoboost. The motor itself was not a problem, it had plenty of power.
The issue was that the truck was too light and that trailer would push it around. The only time it was easy to pull was with no wind, on a flat road, with no big rigs or buses or anything going the other way. It was so bad on our final trip with that truck, that we left it with my father in law and came home without it, and he brought it back later with a larger truck. The worst part of that trip was on Highway 191 north of Rock Springs (ie one of the roads you can take to go into Yellowstone). The next summer it was traded in for a F250, and now we have a 350 dually as we are planning on upgrading to a fiver in the next few years.
The issue was that the truck was too light and that trailer would push it around. The only time it was easy to pull was with no wind, on a flat road, with no big rigs or buses or anything going the other way. It was so bad on our final trip with that truck, that we left it with my father in law and came home without it, and he brought it back later with a larger truck. The worst part of that trip was on Highway 191 north of Rock Springs (ie one of the roads you can take to go into Yellowstone). The next summer it was traded in for a F250, and now we have a 350 dually as we are planning on upgrading to a fiver in the next few years.
