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n0arp
Aug 29, 2016Explorer
JAC1982 wrote:
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.
I had the same experience with my 7600# trailer and a 2014 EB. It got a lot better with a Propride 3P, but I much prefer my fifth wheel now.
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