New truck first tow report. Good, Bad, Ugly
We have finished our first towing trip with the new truck... So here is the good the bad and the ugly. We went from Phoenix to the North Rim and back. Our lashup was in the 25-26K range. Performan...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
"The hottest the trany got was 282 climbing Sunset point"
I assume you meant 182 ???
My Ford will run high temps both oil and tranny (200-230), BUT I'm attributing that to the fact I have a bug screen in front of the grill so while air is still passing thru, just blocked some. My semi has a screen behind the grill but in front of all the rads-----see no problems with temps unless climbing a hill, 65*-75*, towing 2 -28' trailers and have 25,000-33,000 lbs of product (basically grossing between 65,000-80,000) or close behind another semi in front blocking air. Then the water temp climbs to 225-230 and "forward parachute" (engine fan) come on. Tho the semi is an auto, do not have temp readout for it, so cannot tell how hot that gets.
