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What's the biggest towed?


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One more trip. 525 miles with the Cougar. Cougar and trailer was 6300#. Gross was 10580#.

I ran it out there at 60 - 65 in 4th. That 2500 - 2700 rpm with 3.27 axles. At that speed it averaged 14.45 mpg. Funny thing is; with the trailer empty on the way back running 65-70 mph the average was almost exactly the same running in 4th and 5th.
 


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Never towed anything, but I have had around 400 pounds of cinderblock in the bed, but only had to drive a couple feet, but it was squatting for sure.
 

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Heres one of me towing my ex girlfriends saturn. Put it in trailer tow and it pulled it very well to my surprise.

 

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Nice looking truck.

When you say "put it in trailer tow"; does your tranny have a switch or something? Automatic I would suspect.
 

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16 foot trailer and four full size quads
 

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Nice looking truck.

When you say "put it in trailer tow"; does your tranny have a switch or something? Automatic I would suspect.
Thanks and it has the automatic 5 speed. I have a superchips programmer that has trailer tow, in my opinion it pulls anything terrible without it. It really makes a difference.
 

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hahahah i towed about 1200lbs of bolts in the back of mine from portland. hauled ass all the way home, hardly even noticed it
 

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I regularly haul a small trailer with 3-12ft JON boats and about 400lbs of gear on the trailer, topper on back, and about 500 lbs in the back, every time I go camping (2hrs away) Does just fine.

The most I've ever hauled was without a trailer. I had 46 - 4x8 sheets of 11/16 plywood :shok: probably about a ton and a half, rear end was slammed. Drove it to the other side of my small town. I'm lucky I didn't snap the axle or springs.

I wouldn't do it again.
 

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Saturday we load up and head out. Towing the wife's '11 Fiesta almost 3200 miles. Seattle to coastal NC. I'll get a pic.
 

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Towed the biggest item yet this afternoon. A 1995 Ford Escort 4dr/loaded, on a car dolly 32 miles. Truck towed great at highway speeds, pulled a 6% grade in a 30mph headwind at 60mph no problem--3rd gear at 4k rpm with power to spare. I was impressed how well it towed for a small truck.
 

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16ft livestock trailer not to bbad should be better after a mottor swap>:)


what usually pulls my trailers >;)
 

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25ft travel trailer. Not very far about 10 miles.

Most weight in the bed was a 1000hp electric motor and some brass bushings and bearings (3 pieces) from a raptor crusher. 600lbs of brass and almost 750lbs of motor. Boy was that a nice payday. Even split 4 ways it was nice lol
 

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I have pics of my truck pulling our 6500lb skid steer somewhere. Still stopped on a dime. Pulled my 99 super cab home on 24' car hauler too.

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Pulled this with some fairly light loads on it (Furniture, a Hot tub, ect)


 
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