k-stater88

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?

5.0GN tow

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.

k-stater88

yep, 3.31..but at the rate it pulled this trailer, there is no way humanly possible that i'd be able to pull 5,000+ lbs.

Steve Osborne

sry....another tale of not enough truck...

130428

A 16' empty trailer ain't exactly a heavy load...unless it has really, really bad aerodynamics!

Steve Osborne

you understand my comment???


he bought fuel economy vs hauling/towing.....

Rabbit

I don't know what it weighs but had to haul my cousins 1500 Chevy home today. My 2.7 pulled it as good or better than my 09 F150 with 5.4 did

11screw50

And yet his truck is rated to tow +/- 9,000 lb. depending on the exact configuration...

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...

xcntrk

What are the details of the trailer? Enclosed or open? How many axles? Does it have brakes? What is the empty weight?

130428

obviously you didn't understand mine. you can have 3.31 and tow 2,500 lbs and have fuel economy when not towing.

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?