How far can you tow prior to fill up?
Thinking about getting rid of the Class A and getting a different RV for traveling cross country in. So bear with me since I'm really new to TT's. As a newbie to TT's I'm attempting to wrap my head...
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dannydimitt wrote:Danasdaddy2002 wrote:
Hey Captain. Thanks for complimenting my RV. ??
My truck is a straight V6 - no ecoboost. That said according to my owners manual and double checking online I am able to tow 11,300 lbs. not sure who came up with that figure but I wouldn't wanna be the one doing it. I'd say it would probably take a lot of life out of the engine for sure. There were times when for no reason the gear would drop into second and put the RPM to 6000. Really bogged the truck down and I was using the "tow/haul".
I am sure with more experience will come better fuel economy but I will be dropping my speed for
sure lol.
Thanks.
That 11,300 lbs is for a chunk of lead neatly loaded onto a short narrow trailer tucked in behind your pickup in it's slipstream that catching no air of it's own ! ;)
MAYBE ?
Welcome to the wonderful world of dropping gears going up a grade club!
Head over to Jasper and you will probably find grades where your transmission will be in the bottom hole at times. It simply has to to be able to move that kind of weight up hill and displace huge amounts of air with the front of your trailer. Not to try and discourage you but I have pulled square camp trailers with 6 bangers in the past that would not go over about 35 to 40 mph on flat to slight downgrades because of nasty headwinds. "inline Chevys with 1 barrel carb" so your 6 puts out a lot more HP and winds up a more rpms than my old POS could ever put out.
there is more than one reason why virtually all "big trucks" no longer use gasoline engines "as they did in the 30's and 40's.
and well into the seventy's for some die hards.
Having started out in some of these old gas rigs and having to shift up or down almost endlessly and having your right arm aching from endless shifting , it's not something I care to go back to. Of course most all the pickups and motor homes have "automatic transmissions" now days " have some horror stories about early allisons they stuck behind big gasoline engines in sixtys" I will stick to the manual transmission's behind the Cummins 6 banger diesels to get from point a - b till I get to that last steep grade with no down grade on the other side.
just like to have 100 % control of when the trans. shifts.
Danny and Rachael
and Basset hound Fred
