montecarlo31 wrote:
ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
:) Hi, your Expedition is close to what my Navigator is. My Navigator has a payload of 1,600 lbs. and a tow rating of 8,900 lbs. My trailer has a GVWR of 6,300 lbs and an actual tongue weight of 900 lbs. This leaves about 700 lbs for me and my wife and some other stuff in my Lincoln. Also a 35' trailer is 10 feet longer than mine and will become a big sail when the wind hits it. My opinion is to have a trailer close to 25' and no more than 7,000 lbs. for your tow vehicle.
Another way to figure it out is to figure the tongue weight of a maxed out trailer and start deducting everything from your payload rating.
Wait so you are giving him advise as a 2000 navigator owner? You realize there have been two major overhauls since yours right? You realize his wheelbase is 12" longer than yours? You realize his curb weight (ability to control the towed load) is significantly higher? You realize the CG is lower? Please re-read and then maybe give some advise that is more applicable like my truck isn't anything like yours but I'll go ahead and give you some advise anyway.
Actually ROBERT is kind of spot on with his assessment.
The 5.4 is kind of a weak point, don't get me wrong, the 3V 5.4 with 300 HP is no slouch by any means BUT it is not going to win an races when loaded. I towed my same 26Ft TT loaded to about 7K lbs with our older 2006 F250.. It pulled it but getting on long steep 8% grades made it work..
The main issue the OP will have IS the CARGO RATING of the vehicle. Large SUVs by their very nature of being fully closed by all that extra sheet metal just don't have all that much cargo weight left over..
Folks just have to have it all and can't fathom the idea of looking at smaller more manageable sizes.. Time to "SUPER SIZE", right?
Growing up, my parents took all six of us kids and went traveling with a pickup truck and TC.. Yep, EIGHT people.. Dad added and extra bunk over top the bottom bunk.. Looked like a bunch of sardines but we ALL lived to grow up and tell the tale.. It didn't kill us.
