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Re: Anyone with experience towing with a Suburban
Andrew, Here is my experience with a 2001 GMC Yukon 5.3L. Living in North Reno I have to travel up and down large hills in order to get home. When I say large, we are talking about 2500 to 3000 feet in elevation change. The problem I was having when towing was in the summer; if the gas tank had less then 1/4 tank I would burn the pump up climbing the hill. I also made the mistake of not turning the AC off once and fired the compressor. So in the end, the 5.3L will tow it but when it heats up outside be careful.5.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Truck is too small
I had a similar problem. We bought a Jay-co 23F trailer from a dealer and they looked at our tow vehicle and said no problem. We have a 2001 GMC Yukon with the 5.3l in it. We hooked up and left for our first trip and found that the truck was working very hard to pull itself down the road. Now in my area we have a ton of steep hills to climb, the Yukon would climb the hills with the trailer but it took everything. After replacing three fuel pumps and two ac condensers we started looking for a tow vehicle. We found a young kid that needed to off load a 03 ford 6.0. This was the best thing we could have done. The Ford will pull the trailer fully loaded up anything hill, in fact I now pass other towing up hill. The lesson I learned was the Toyota Tundra may have pulled the Shuttle but it was on flat ground with no wind.326Views0likes0Comments
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