Towing with F250
I am new to camping and recently purchased a 34 foot puma trailer. It has the delux accommodation package with the bunkhouse. So far so good. I have an older Ford F250, 1974. I pulled the traile...
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MitchF150 wrote:Thanks for the clarification, Mitch. I don't know how the OP could mistake even a 351 for a V6 but, to be fair, there's a lot of room in those older truck engine bays, maybe his V8 just looks small.:)
Westend, back then, "Ranger" was a trim package for the F250. Not the small pickup truck that they named "Ranger" later on.
Mitch
Jayco, a Highboy, eh? Yes the 4x4 rode high on even stock tires. I had the 390/4 barrel that was mentioned above, driven through a 4 speed manual.
At one point I was in cahoots with a couple of tree trimmers and did a bit of their dump work. I had 5' sideboards and could load trunk pieces full to the top with a Samson line cradled underneath the load. When I was at the tree dump, I'd tie the line onto a big trunk or a couple of stumps, lock in 4x4 Low, pull forward, and let the rope pull the load out. One day it didn't feel right so I got out of the truck and saw the back half of the load was on the ground and I'd pulled a big trunk and a couple of stumps out of the dump pile. That truck was a haulin' machine.
The OP should have no problem pulling the trailer with his '74. Like others have said, as long as the springs are still good, use a WDH to get the correct trim level.
