sky_free wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
FWIW your gas mileage will suck big time with the Ford 6.2 both loaded and unloaded. My 2013 Ford 6.2 averages a little over 12mpg commuting, mostly hiway and just over 8 mpg on a slowwww trip last year with 1k lb in the bed and a 4k lb enclosed trailer in tow.
If you do a lot of miles with the camper on you won't pass any gas stations!
By comparison, my diesel does 18mpg avg on summer fuel commuting, 12+ with the camper on if I keep it under 70mph and 11mpg with camper and same trailer.
Just food for thought.
On my first long trip check with the TC, my 6.2 averaged almost 11 mpg (10.75) with an AF 990 on board. I'm not towing anything, and I've got the 3.73 gears as I said.
Around town I get around 12 MPG just as you do, and almost 10 MPG with the TC on. There just isn't that much difference between empty and completely loaded in MPG. Highway empty is about 14-15, with a high of 16. I have no doubt that towing a trailer gets you under 10, but a TC is not a trailer.
I have to agree with Grit dog. When I had my 2011 F350 4X4 CC LB 4.30 rear ratio with my Northern Lite 10 2 CDSE we took it to Alaska last summer. Camper weighed in about 4,000#. I towed my 2500# boat for the first 2000 miles of the 11,000 miles trip. Hand calculated mileage for the entire 11,000 miles was 10.88MPG and this is converting liters to gallons. There were quite a bit of gravel roads and such in that as well as pulling out of Skagway which is a long pull. On that trip there were a few places that I wanted more power but the truck did just fine. I also had installed 19.5 wheels for I know that knocked down my mileage a little also as they are heavy tires and wheels. Once when I was empty and really watching my throttle I got as high as 17MPG and it was on a 2 lane road with a lot of hills.
If I wasn't going to tow an enclosed 7X14 or our Jeep I would have probably stayed with the 6.2. I had the biggest GVWR for an gasser. 11,200#.
If I was going to have a big camper and not tow anything or a small light trailer I would have either a Ford 6.2 or a Ram 6.4 DRW. This give some of the biggest payload packages of any 3500/350
