Anyone towing with an 2011+ ecoboost?
After searching the specs, I have realized the f150 have more payload capacity with the new ecoboost then the 5.0 engines. I was wondering for those that tow with it how the experience been? Any issue...
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ib516 wrote:
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Great info.
Hey thanks. Funny I'm just now going through your thread "Jumping off the Diesel Bandwagon - UPDATED". It's a long one! Lots of good info there.
Here's a little more about the Eco's Engine Braking. Never had an issue over the last 3 years and 62,000km (half of that towing), out west in the Rockies, down in Appalachia. Worked just fine in Tow/haul mode.
Until just a few weeks ago when I tried going down the West side of the Newfound Gap road in Great Smokey Mountains N.Park, Tennessee. Went up it just fine last fall, lots of fun, many 20mph hair-pin turns, even a 20mph loop-dee-loop where you bridge over your own path (Dunno the average slope but it's steep).
But coming down this Spring in 2nd gear was tough on the brakes. The Eco could use another gear between first and 2nd to help out. First was too low and 2nd too high. So the brakes got used a lot, and I started using the trailer's hand brake controller to save the truck's brakes. Never felt too much fade, but you could smell it.
