Terrible time towing....but why?
#1
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Terrible time towing....but why?
Hey all,
So I hooked my '15 5.0 up to a 16' bumper pull stock trailer which was empty and took off down a flat ks interstate. I set it on tow/haul and 5th gear to run 65-70, but the truck struggled with all it's might. I spent most of the 70 mile trip with my foot to the floor board. It would hover around 2100 RPM, and when i shifted down to 4th, it'd soar up to 2800-3000 rpm's just to keep her at 65 mph. the wind really wasn't much of a factor.
I'm concerned, because i used a 2014 5.0 to pull a flatbed and a '51 F3 doing the same speed and it chugged along in 5th with ease.
No warning lights or anything showed up other than the mpg was way down at 10 or lower and our 140 miles to empty fell to 4 miles at the end of our 70 mile trip.... ideas?
So I hooked my '15 5.0 up to a 16' bumper pull stock trailer which was empty and took off down a flat ks interstate. I set it on tow/haul and 5th gear to run 65-70, but the truck struggled with all it's might. I spent most of the 70 mile trip with my foot to the floor board. It would hover around 2100 RPM, and when i shifted down to 4th, it'd soar up to 2800-3000 rpm's just to keep her at 65 mph. the wind really wasn't much of a factor.
I'm concerned, because i used a 2014 5.0 to pull a flatbed and a '51 F3 doing the same speed and it chugged along in 5th with ease.
No warning lights or anything showed up other than the mpg was way down at 10 or lower and our 140 miles to empty fell to 4 miles at the end of our 70 mile trip.... ideas?
#2
That's odd, I pull a much heavier horse trailer, granted it's a GN but it has no problem. My rpms at 70 are closer to 2500 in 5th though. Sounds like you might have 3.31 gears, mine is 3.55.
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Terrible time towing....but why?
Originally Posted by Steve Osborne
sry....another tale of not enough truck...
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#8
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Sounds like the truck has a problem as it should not have an issue towing the weight you described in your other thread (~2500lb) regardless of the frontal area of the trailer.
As for Rabbit and his 2.7, nobody cares because this thread has nothing to do with how well his 2.7 towed a flatbed with a pickup on it...
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if he was complaining about getting 10mpg towing a 9,000 lbs trailer like that other guy on here, yes I would agree with you. but that's not the case here.
Capice now?
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