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FrugalFamily
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Jun 11, 2020

Suburban Versus Excursion or something else???

For the last several years we've been towing our 2005 Outback 26 footer with a a 2WD 04 Suburban with the 5.3 engine. Towing, we'd get about 10 MPG and although the rig was fine on the flats, it would...
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K_Charles
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Jun 11, 2020
Tyler0215 wrote:
What's the rear end ratio? A change to a lower ratio (higher #) my solve the problem.

Our '04 excursion did find with a TT that usually weighed around 85,000. When it got to 200,000 we went looking,same as you, and ended up trading the TT for a used MH because that was the cheaper option.

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