Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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blt2ski wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:
Ford puts V10's on 26,000lb GVWR (30K GCWR, IIRC) F53 motorhome chassis and 19,000lb GVWR/30,000lb GCWR F-550's. A V10 will do fine in a SD pickup towing 13,000lbs. It will still be hauling less weight (and probably less drag) than a V10 in a 35' class A motorhome!
Not sure I would agree with this totally. As a trailer will have 4 tires on the road, truck 4-6 vs a MH having 6 tires. A 5W may or may not have more windage than a MH. Many of the MH' today are pretty aerodynamic compared to a truck/trailer combo. So reality tells me with out doing figures etc, that a truck/trailer may be harder to move, and need more HP than a mh.
But, I would agree, the V10 is more than up to a task of moving a 20-25K rig down the road.
marty
Every 5er I've seen is pretty streamlined...and the vast majority of class A's I have seen are flying-barn-doors with upright windshields and little or no streamlining. They are, if anything, LESS aerodynamic than they were 15 years ago! (When the slant-nose shape was popular.)
