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just out of curiosity, if you don't tow, why get the 3.55 rear end? You will get better mileage out of the 3.15, especially if your commute is mostly highway
Because I plan on putting some larger heavier tires on.
I test drove them all in 2015. I bought the 2.7. I wish that I'd gone with the V8. The 5.0 - the old 5.0 - drove well enough, and if they'd stocked one the way that I wanted I would have bought it and that would have been the end of it, but they didn't. So I drove them all, and decided the V6s drove a little bit better, and they had a blue one besides, so here I am. A month or three in I'd already forgotten how the other two motors drove, much less the car that I drove before that which was faster than all three of them. But I'm reminded every time that I drive the truck how bad the vacuum cleaners sound.
Between the presumable low end bump of the new engine, a light 2WD truck, short gearing with the 10 speed, and not towing anything, and coming from the slug of the old 5.4, the new 5.0 surely drives well enough too.
The V6 probably drives better still, but it surely has a mess of plumbing under the hood and surely still sounds like poop.
07-20-2017, 06:59 PM
