Toyota Tundra - TT ?

camp-n-family wrote:

Make sure he knows it would sound like a sewing machine on any and every grade if he wants to hold any speed.

I have two friends that had 18CK trailers (5,200lbs max) and got very tired of their 2007 and 2008 Tundra's down shifting on the slightest of grades. The trucks held speed just fine, but ran a LOT of rpms to do so.

I am sure this is how many gas rigs are, but no real experience with the others.

I find that hard to believe. They must be driving in OD if it was shifting a lot or had aftermarket exhausts if it was loud. I leave mine in 5th and it hums all day at 65mph in the low 2000rpm range with my 31' 7600lbs tt. If I hold speeds on some long grades it will downshift like any other vehicle, but it hardly sounds like a sewing machine. It's no low rpm diesel but it's also not loud or annoying at all.

Both where bone stock.

Small, and I do mean small like a 2% rise for 1/2 mile, would send both rigs screaming. One guy was so annoyed he slowed to 55 in a flat stretch of a 75 mph zone to quit listening to the motor.

The other guy towed with it for a summer and now has a diesel, and said the tundra doesn't even hold a candle to the way a HD pickup tows it.

They both said the tundra has the power, just needs way too many rpms to make it.

Maybe it's the elevation out here? But 2 rigs with nearly identical trailers is not a fluke.

One of the trips I was riding in a friends 460 ft/lb Cummins on 35's towing a similar trailer and the tundra was behind us. We where doing 60-65 and on every little incline, not grade just normal small inclines in a flat desert, they would fall way behind or listen to the motor scream.

These are the same small inlines I pull at 65-70 in OD and hardly notice the truck work any harder. 1-2% if I were to guess.