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Your Tow Rig


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This is mine... 85 F250 HD, 460, 4 speed, 4x4. Kind of a rusty old junker with a lot of weird issues but it always gets the job done. I have a set of EFI heads and all the fuel injection stuff from a newer truck so I will be installing that someday. I got a class V receiver hitch for it and the heaviest load I have pulled so far was about 1000lbs of firewood in the truck and a 20' car trailer with a Lincoln Mark VII junker that weighted 2900lbs. The truck did NOT like pulling all that at all.

 
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Is that the ford on youtube that ripped the chevy apart?!?
 

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Heres my truck actually towing my new travel trailer....

 

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Here is our tow setup:

03 Excursion with a 6.0 and 21 ft trailer w/ 10,000lb winch







 

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Heres my tow rig, 1977 F250 camper special 2wd Stock 400 with an Automatic, nothin to special but she gets the job done...
It looks brilliant Dustin.
 

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Here is mine:

2008 F350 Lariat 6.4L powerstroke diesel, torqshift auto transmission, AFE stage 2 sealed enclosure intake, AFE DPF/DOC delete pipe and H&S XRT Pro tuner, procomp level kit and 35x12.50r18 Procomp Xtreme AT's.

 

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My awesome "tow" rig as of late. You can't hear them, but the p-metrics were screaming.

 

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Missing your powerstroke Mavy?
 

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I sold the superduty and picked up this one owner 97

 

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Missing your powerstroke Mavy?
Without a doubt. I bought the F150 to tow my Jeep to the Rubicon back in July and then sell it when I got back. I was without a tow rig at the time and needed something quick. I got a good deal and knew I wouldn't get hurt on it. I'll have it for sale in a week or so after I get it detailed and it will be replaced by a diesel of some sort. For the most part the F150 does what I ask of it, it's just down on power for all the mountain passes out here and really drinks the fuel when loaded because your screaming the engine to keep speed. When I towed my Jeep to the 'con the last 80 miles or so is a steady climb for the valley floor all the way up to Lake Tahoe (about 8000'). I fueled up at the bottom and burnt 2/3 of tank by the time I pulled into the staging area. It was in second gear at 3600-3700rpms for the better part of an hour and a half, mileage worked out to just a hair over 7mpg :icon_surprised:
 

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