Ford F250 V10
I am considering a Rockwood fifth wheel with a dry weight of 6592, a dry hitch weight of 1181, and a cargo capacity of 1458. The GVWR of the pickup is 8800. The f250 has 3.73 gears. This truck will...
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brirene wrote:
I'm not sure you can describe it as "struggle". You won't be the fastest one up the mountain, and you'll have to let it rev pretty high, but you should do ok. That seems pretty well matched, imo. Expect mileage in the 6's though.
lawrosa wrote:
Wow open question... What year is the 250 v 10?
Your looking 8K trailer and 8.8 k pick up???...
a dry hitch weight of 1181 but whats the payload of the truck????
Sure it will pull it maybe IMO,,, But youll be white knuckles.. We need to know more info....
More info period.............. Cant make any recommendation without it...
1. Truck year
2. TT model and year?
Thats a minimum....
fla-gypsy wrote:
With an 8800 GVWR that would be a pre 2005 model. It will have the 2v version making 310 HP and 420 ft lbs torque and If all the maintenance has been kept up it should do just fine. The 3.73 is not the greatest towing gear but should be adequate and payload will be in the 2500 lb range so no problems there
Well I think I would go with the resident V10 guru, I don't see a V10 having an issue with an 8,000# 5er.
