40 mph uphill? Other Armada or Titan TVs?
I’ve been trolling this site for a year. There’s so much info I that haven’t needed to ask a question until now! Tv: 2006 Armada LE 5.6L DOHC V8 with factory tow package. Tow rating 9000lbs. 305...
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Paul, after all the replies you’ve received you know what you’re options are if you want to improve your performance at higher elevations. I won’t beat that horse anymore.
I did want to tell you though that you would be passing me going up those long steep grades in my first Diesel pickup hauling my first truck camper. The truck was a 1983 F250 with the 6.9L Diesel, about 160 HP/ 300 FtLb torque. No turbo. First year of Fords Diesel powered pickups. I was hauling a 3500 lb truck camper with it.
You talk about a dog in the Rockies! I chugged up many a grade in Colorado at 25 mph blowing black smoke like the Durango to Silverton trains. The hikers and bicyclers hated to see me coming up on them on those roads. I was slow, but not as slow as them and would eventually get past them. Got a lot of dirty looks, and worse. There wasn’t a dang thing I could do about it though.
I also had a 1983 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, which was the first year of the 9th generation Tbirds. Turbo 2.3L 4 cylinder. That was a fairly large 2-door sedan that weighed about 3200 lbs IIRC. I took it to the Rockies several times as well, and it always surprised me how well those four little pistons performed at high elevations. Of course I was never towing anything, but I could pass everything going uphill! No Diesel truck of the day could even keep up. I loved that generation of Tbirds, and owned four of them before they were discontinued.
Times have sure changed.
:):)
I did want to tell you though that you would be passing me going up those long steep grades in my first Diesel pickup hauling my first truck camper. The truck was a 1983 F250 with the 6.9L Diesel, about 160 HP/ 300 FtLb torque. No turbo. First year of Fords Diesel powered pickups. I was hauling a 3500 lb truck camper with it.
You talk about a dog in the Rockies! I chugged up many a grade in Colorado at 25 mph blowing black smoke like the Durango to Silverton trains. The hikers and bicyclers hated to see me coming up on them on those roads. I was slow, but not as slow as them and would eventually get past them. Got a lot of dirty looks, and worse. There wasn’t a dang thing I could do about it though.
I also had a 1983 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, which was the first year of the 9th generation Tbirds. Turbo 2.3L 4 cylinder. That was a fairly large 2-door sedan that weighed about 3200 lbs IIRC. I took it to the Rockies several times as well, and it always surprised me how well those four little pistons performed at high elevations. Of course I was never towing anything, but I could pass everything going uphill! No Diesel truck of the day could even keep up. I loved that generation of Tbirds, and owned four of them before they were discontinued.
Times have sure changed.
:):)
