How big a trailer before load equalizer?
03-24-2014, 04:31 PM
#21
ColdWar Vet-USN Shellback
Thread Starter
You need to remember I live on flat land! The only hills areound here are on ramps to the express way. I pulled from Toledo, OH to Alexandria, VA with an empty trailer there and probe on the trailer back(trailer is heavy at 2500 lbs). Round trip I got 15.8(something like 16.5 going with empty trailer) and this is with a 3200 stall so the hills really beat up on my millage since it wouldn't lock as quickly as a stock converter would. This is a lighter load(5500 or so on the way home.)
On the hiway around here I shouldn't have problem getting your camper around at 15+ mpg. The big camper I pulled(see my air bag thread) was not only larger but also loaded with crap to the gills because they got kicked out so we stuffed what we could and rolled. Again hills and mountains will make that drop to 13 pretty easy.
On the hiway around here I shouldn't have problem getting your camper around at 15+ mpg. The big camper I pulled(see my air bag thread) was not only larger but also loaded with crap to the gills because they got kicked out so we stuffed what we could and rolled. Again hills and mountains will make that drop to 13 pretty easy.
And why are you on a F150 forum trolling about?
04-02-2014, 01:57 PM
#22
if the tires on the trailer are "trailer tires" they usually have a max speed rating too... mine are 65 mph. I know guys that don't follow that and so far have been fine; however, I wouldn't risk it. travel tires were invented to cheaply fill the gap between passenger tires and LT tires. with trailer tires, you run them at max PSI and some times they aren't even rated to carry the entire gross weight of the trailer (I assume this is because tongue weight is really never on the trailer tires?) so you're basically running them at the max rating for everything.