New Tow Vehicle
Pretty excited about our new tow vehicle. Heading to the Rockies next year most likely and this will be a welcome upgrade. The wagon worked good but was really beyond its limits. It did a pretty fl...
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ktosv wrote:
Congrats on the new tow vehicle. Glad to hear you are keeping the wagon. You will enjoy how the Suburban tows. We started our "trailer" camping over 12 years ago using a 94 Caprice Wagon. Did your Buick have the tow package or were you doing it without?
The Buick does have the tow package, which included 2.93 gears instead of 2.56, oil cooler and external trans cooler, mechanical fan, not sure what else. I added a trans temp gage, largest fan powered external trans cooler B&M makes, external trans fluid filter, Hotchkis Sway bars front and rear, Air Lift bags in place of the air shocks (connected to the auto level control), and Bilstein shocks. 235/65VR17 XL Bridgestone Dueler HP Sports to replace the 245/60R17 Michelin all season tires was the last upgrade. The suspension and tire upgrades make the drive on a daily basis more enjoyable as well as aid in better towing. I've always wished it had 3.42 gears for towing but it works as it is. Those gears would have hurt our non-towing mileage so I never wanted to change them or pay for it. We get 18 day to day and 22 on trips without the trailer. It has hauled the trailer all around NY state, Pennsylvania, to the Smokey Mountains of TN and all over MI more times than I can count.
