Post your tow rigs here!!!

[adkins112]

2002 f-250 7.3L diesel ts chip, built auto, ball bearing turbo, 5" exhaust, afe intake, 35" mickey thompsons

 

[Will]

My nissan has a 3.3 v6 the 4.0 didnt come in till the 2nd gen

Ahhh...

I guess it would be slow then.

I can't keep Gen's apart. We have a '93 Pathfinder in the family--been passed around like the village bike. My dad has had it for several years because it's their only 4x4 up there in northern Iowa and my mom uses it in the winter to do visitations--she's a Lutheran minister. I towed things with it and it was fine--as long as you keep the tach at 4,000rpm.

 

[midget]

Ahhh...

I guess it would be slow then.

I can't keep Gen's apart. We have a '93 Pathfinder in the family--been passed around like the village bike. My dad has had it for several years because it's their only 4x4 up there in northern Iowa and my mom uses it in the winter to do visitations--she's a Lutheran minister. I towed things with it and it was fine--as long as you keep the tach at 4,000rpm.

Actually its kinda the opposite problem its geard right so it shoots to 50 pretty quick but 60mph is a struggle b/c ts at 3200 rpm with OD off and if I turn the Od on it just bounces on an off of it and thats not good for the trans 70mph straiht and true down the interstate is fine though.

 

[Will]

Yeah, stuck between gears is the age-old problem. Our Pathfinder with it's 4-link rear would lift the rear end up with a trailer on it and actually spin a tire when taking off hard from a stop. It was very annoying.

 

[jaymegriffiths]

The question was how can you afford to daily drive it. I drive 1,000 miles a month. If I had a 14mpg vehicle (which that isn't in town) I would pay $3,000/year in gas. I stopped daily driving my full-size and got the 39mpg Honda which would save me $1,900/year over a 14mpg truck--and probably well over $2,000 year if I drove yours. I drive my full-size about once a week now--and on trips when I have to haul shit across the country. The little car will have paid for itself by about New Years.

some friends of my family's all drive new duramaxes, and this year all 4 boys (1 dad and 3 sons) admitted to paying over $15000 in fuel EACH. NO TYPO. thats how you know you have too much ,money.

 

[JohnnyU]

some friends of my family's all drive new duramaxes, and this year all 4 boys (1 dad and 3 sons) admitted to paying over $15000 in fuel EACH. NO TYPO. thats how you know you have too much ,money.

Seriously? I haven't even spent $1,200 on fuel this year, and that's through about 500 gallons of fuel, and around 8,000 miles. To spend that much money, figuring the average cost of diesel in the last year was $2.41, that means they'd have to have burned over 6200 gallons of diesel. Figure 14mpg average, that'd mean they drove 87,100 miles EACH.


I would really question these folks' credibility.

 

[85DANGERanger]

heres my tow rig..all 532hp and 1025ft lbs of it!!

 

[85DANGERanger]

Seriously? I haven't even spent $1,200 on fuel this year, and that's through about 500 gallons of fuel, and around 8,000 miles. To spend that much money, figuring the average cost of diesel in the last year was $2.41, that means they'd have to have burned over 6200 gallons of diesel. Figure 14mpg average, that'd mean they drove 87,100 miles EACH.


I would really question these folks' credibility.

id agree, these new diesels out now adays with the DPF get HORRIBLE fuel milage, specially when there brand new and dont have any miles on them. i drove my company truck,, 08' ford f350 powerstroke 6.4 from indianapolis to tuscan, arizonia and averaged 6.5 mpg pulling a tandem axle inclosed with about 8k pounds in it.. the emissions crap is killing the new diesels fuel milage. in my 04; chevy duramax i get between 18-22 mpg

 

[ranger_mclaren]

heres my tow rig..all 532hp and 1025ft lbs of it!!

Ever brake the tierods or axle shafts on that while pulling the sleds? Chevys and GMCs are infomaus for blowing out the front ends while pulling sleds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJR0IqqKkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxoAbEVqD9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfauOXbqKLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PmoCSqRaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6Lqj-_eSo

 

[choped84]

1983 f-250, 7.3 diesel, ats turbo, 4'' turbo back exhaust into 5" stacks,

 

[Jason]

id agree, these new diesels out now adays with the DPF get HORRIBLE fuel milage, specially when there brand new and dont have any miles on them. i drove my company truck,, 08' ford f350 powerstroke 6.4 from indianapolis to tuscan, arizonia and averaged 6.5 mpg pulling a tandem axle inclosed with about 8k pounds in it.. the emissions crap is killing the new diesels fuel milage. in my 04; chevy duramax i get between 18-22 mpg

The lack of desire from the manufacturer to develop better engines is killing mileage. My one work truck, powered with a Volvo D13, is a 485 hp 6 cyl diesel and it gets that mileage pulling at 107k pounds total. Why can Volvo get that mileage while our Macks get 4 or so with the same Eaton-Fuller 10 spd?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The lack of desire from the manufacturer to develop better engines is killing mileage. My one work truck, powered with a Volvo D13, is a 485 hp 6 cyl diesel and it gets that mileage pulling at 107k pounds total. Why can Volvo get that mileage while our Macks get 4 or so with the same Eaton-Fuller 10 spd?

Different emissions standards. In their defence, I have never heard of a Powerstroke get THAT bad of milage. It is usually about twice that, which isn't all that great either.

Ford is ditching the Navistar diesel in the near future anyway.

 

[85DANGERanger]

Ever brake the tierods or axle shafts on that while pulling the sleds? Chevys and GMCs are infomaus for blowing out the front ends while pulling sleds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJR0IqqKkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxoAbEVqD9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfauOXbqKLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PmoCSqRaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6Lqj-_eSo

yes, they will break if you dont inforce them, $90 set of sleeves fixes the tierod breaking problems and lowering the torsion bars will prevent the half shafts from breaking, but i rarely see halfshafts break, only on lifted trucks with a lot of angle on there shafts. alot of the guys dont know what there doin and built up there truck and forget about the front end, yes, IFS sucks but it doesnt take much to bulletproof them..

 

[Jason]

Different emissions standards. In their defence, I have never heard of a Powerstroke get THAT bad of milage. It is usually about twice that, which isn't all that great either.

Ford is ditching the Navistar diesel in the near future anyway.

The 2010 HD truck standards are very strict. Not much different than those on diesel light-duty trucks.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The 2010 HD truck standards are very strict. Not much different than those on diesel light-duty trucks.

Like I alluded to before, that isn't typical milage for a 6.4 anyway. They usually get at least twice that.