F150 automatic tranny gear selection
2006 F150, 5.4L Automatic trans. Towing a trailer weighing around 4200 lbs. Very often this truck can pull an incline in third gear but insists on downshifting to second sending the rpms from 2400 t...
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facory wrote:
3800 rpm is about 60 mph. 3400 is about 55 mph. I can let off of the gas to control speed, but I know that this truck can pull the hill in 3rd gear without all of the rpms and noise.
IF it could do it without lugging. It would. But it would lug, Why would you want it to lug? it only makes it use oil, and waste gas. The engine makes it's power in higher RPMs, and you aren't even close to the max power RPM. So let it run.
