Ford F250 6.2L V8
I recently purchased a new F250 with the 6.2L gas motor to pull our Keystone 2920BH. The truck doesn't even know it there. I am thinking about 5th wheels now. I am looking at the Forest River Rockwoo...
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Denny & Jami wrote:Artum Snowbird wrote:
You will be slower than some in the hills, diesels don't lose power with altitude like gas engines do, but you will be OK.
All motors that burn oxygen will loose power at altitude, there's just no way around it. The turbos in the new diesels makes as difference over non turbo ones but they still loose power, they also have crazy touque numbers so you don't fell it as much.
I pull a 16K 5th wheel with a 6.2 DRW with 4.30 gears, going over 10k passes it can get a little slow but it still does a good job, we've been all over the country with it. Your limiting factor is being a F250 and 3.73 gears but with that size trailer it will do fine.
Denny
Not really.
A turbo is a pump. And most VV turbo's will put as much air into the engine as needed to make up for thin air. The only time a diesel will lose power is when you run out of turbo.
The 6.5 GM gen 1 turbo is a prime example. They are a fixed vain turbo and on the small size at that. They lose no power until around 6 to 7000 feet. Then they just fall on their face. The wheel is not big enough to put more air in and being that it is not a VV turbo it can't grab more air. They just slap it around more and heat it up. Going up Ike with my 6.5 it is very clean until bout 7K and then it rolls coal like 16 YO with a tuner on his Cummins!
