Toyota Tundra and small 5'ver

John&Joey wrote:

Scott's wrote:
I pull a 26 foot 5er with my 2013 tundra with the 5.7. Trailer is around 7500#. I use a b&w hide a ball and goose neck conversion on the trailer. I've pulled it 1000s of miles. Never had a issue. I'm really happy with the set up.. The Tundra is way more capable than most people on here seem to think. I had a F250 diesel before the Tundra. I think the Tundra pulls better than the F250 did.

Thanks for the input. We live on the road for about six months out of the year and have seen this combo only a few times. The owners all seem pretty happy with it. When talking with the F250 guys they all love their trucks, then start to list off all of the repairs they've had to do.

We've had great luck with Toyota, and not so much with American iron. What we need now is a small, simple, and nimble rig to tour the country in for 3-4 months out of the year. That would be broken down into two segments in the fall and spring. Hotel stays would also be done while touring.

Currently I'm not Tundra educated, so any advice in that area would also be appreciated on models or options that I need to have.

Thanks for all of the input.

You'll find a lot fewer guys complaining about older Duramaxes than Powerstrokes. Hard to beat a diesel if you're towing a lot of miles, even with a light trailer. My only real beef with my '02 D'max is with the transmission, where some brilliant "engineer" decided that I wasn't competent enough to be able to manually use all the gears, so can't manually select 4th; goes direct from 5th (OD) to 3rd on the column. It's a $500-600 retrofit for an OD cut-off switch. I think it was in '04 when they changed this.

Lyle