New-to-me truck and camper

mountainkowboy wrote:
Welcome and till you scale it with and without the TC it's hard to say.

Thanks. I'll go to the CAT scale with the truck later this week. The RV dealer has a scale and can weigh the camper full of liquids. Once I've got the camper on the truck, I'll go to the scale again.

KD4UPL wrote:
I would think the TC is well matched to the capacity of the truck. I'd put some miles on it with local trips so you don't get too far from home. See how it drives and handles and go from there.
I hope you did a lot of research on the 6.0 Ford diesel. They are temperamental high maintenance engines at best, expensive pieces of junk at worst. A company I used to be involved with had me driving two of those things, the problems are many.

Thanks. I do plan to stick around the neighborhood for a while and troubleshoot systems, see what I might have forgotten, etc. And I'll take your advice and take shorter trips first before heading to Alaska. :)

As I understood it, the 6.0 Powerstroke had design flaws but can be a very good engine if you take care of those flaws, and can potentially be an outstanding engine if those areas are really squared away. Like the 7.3 before it, it doesn't have all the modern emissions technology on it. My 6.0 only has 80K miles on it, so I'm tempted to take my 6.0 in to get it preemptively "bulletproofed."

JimK-NY wrote:
My wife and I full timed for a couple of years in an Igloo. I think you will find it to be a great choice. I would get the Timbrens and then see if anything else is needed. It should be fine. For full timing, I highly recommend adding AGM batteries and at least one solar panel over 100 watts, preferably two.

Thanks. I believe the camper has 250 amps of AGM batteries, although I'm not sure of the condition yet. It has 150 watts of solar on top. Should I first wait and see if that meets my needs, or do you think I will definitely want to go ahead and double to 300 watts?