What do YOU use to tow your track car?
08-15-2017, 10:28 PM
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I've been told (by friends who are professional diesel mechanics) that the 6.4s are utter train wrecks from top to bottom. They make the 6.0s look good. Had a friend post a pic several months ago of a 6.4 truck with the cab off, heads off, shortblock on a stand, caption was "75k mile service". You couldn't give me a free 6.4 liter truck.
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08-15-2017, 11:44 PM
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Guy says he bought gas-engined Ford
Thread turns into Ford diesel bashing as a result. Fun.
One day in the shop last week, 4 of our 5 occupied bays had a blue oval in them. All the truck owners at the shop have Chevys.
This is not a coincidence.
Ford has built some great driving vehicles but their engineering often leaves me perplexed. Too many odd ideas with frustrating solutions.
Thread turns into Ford diesel bashing as a result. Fun.
One day in the shop last week, 4 of our 5 occupied bays had a blue oval in them. All the truck owners at the shop have Chevys.
This is not a coincidence.
Ford has built some great driving vehicles but their engineering often leaves me perplexed. Too many odd ideas with frustrating solutions.
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08-16-2017, 12:52 AM
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I've been told (by friends who are professional diesel mechanics) that the 6.4s are utter train wrecks from top to bottom. They make the 6.0s look good. Had a friend post a pic several months ago of a 6.4 truck with the cab off, heads off, shortblock on a stand, caption was "75k mile service". You couldn't give me a free 6.4 liter truck.
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08-16-2017, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by turbofan;1434020[b
]Guy says he bought gas-engined Ford
Thread turns into Ford diesel bashing as a result.[/b] Fun.
One day in the shop last week, 4 of our 5 occupied bays had a blue oval in them. All the truck owners at the shop have Chevys.
This is not a coincidence.
Ford has built some great driving vehicles but their engineering often leaves me perplexed. Too many odd ideas with frustrating solutions.
Thread turns into Ford diesel bashing as a result.[/b] Fun.
One day in the shop last week, 4 of our 5 occupied bays had a blue oval in them. All the truck owners at the shop have Chevys.
This is not a coincidence.
Ford has built some great driving vehicles but their engineering often leaves me perplexed. Too many odd ideas with frustrating solutions.
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08-16-2017, 06:08 PM
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I'm about to bite the bullet and convert to 16" wheels on my trailer so I can run load range E truck tires. It's going to increase wheel diameter by 1" but I have plenty of space, and a 1/2" ride height difference shouldn't be noticeable.
Buying 8 new wheels and tires is going to suck though.
Buying 8 new wheels and tires is going to suck though.
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08-16-2017, 07:57 PM
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I tow close to 20K miles a year.
Took the truck and trailer across the scales at 18,600lbs fully loaded.
Truck is a 2002 Ram 2500 Cummins. Triple disk billet converter, Chip's Transmissions stage 4 gearbox, Edge Juice with Attitude "hot unlocked," "Super B Special Single" Turbo(Yes....I tow my Supercharged Race Car with a Turbo Truck
), DAP 100hp injectors, FASS 150GPH Fuel System, "Hot Rod" VP44 Pump, ATS Pulse Flow Manifold, AFE grid heater delete, AFE Intake Elbow, AEM Water/Meth injection with 5 gallon tank, AFE Intercooler and pipe kit.
This thing is an absolute BEAST. Get's 14-16 mpg towing my 28' trailer at 75-80 mph and fully loaded it will pass an unloaded Ford going up Jellico Mountain.
As I typed this I realized I might have a problem......my truck is almost as modified as my car
Took the truck and trailer across the scales at 18,600lbs fully loaded.
Truck is a 2002 Ram 2500 Cummins. Triple disk billet converter, Chip's Transmissions stage 4 gearbox, Edge Juice with Attitude "hot unlocked," "Super B Special Single" Turbo(Yes....I tow my Supercharged Race Car with a Turbo Truck
), DAP 100hp injectors, FASS 150GPH Fuel System, "Hot Rod" VP44 Pump, ATS Pulse Flow Manifold, AFE grid heater delete, AFE Intake Elbow, AEM Water/Meth injection with 5 gallon tank, AFE Intercooler and pipe kit.This thing is an absolute BEAST. Get's 14-16 mpg towing my 28' trailer at 75-80 mph and fully loaded it will pass an unloaded Ford going up Jellico Mountain.
As I typed this I realized I might have a problem......my truck is almost as modified as my car
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08-16-2017, 11:22 PM
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I was thinking of picking up a V8 4runner for towing duties at some point but the price some people are asking for these things are insane. I regularly see 200k+ mile examples for over 10k.
Anyone towed with any of the new toyota V6 Taco/4Runners?
Anyone towed with any of the new toyota V6 Taco/4Runners?
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08-17-2017, 08:55 AM
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I have a friend who bought a 4.0 v6 4Runner crew cab long bed for his track tow vehicle / DD. He's only towed with it a couple of times so far and I have not driven it yet because I rolled his last truck over on the interstate while pulling a trailer with his last car on it. The four liter seems to have surprisingly good torque and power seems great. The long bed was difficult to find with the crew cab but seems to add to the overall stability and certainly it's a lot more useful space in the bed. Seems like plenty of truck for a single Miata and trailer.
'04-'06 extended cab v8 Tundras have come down a lot lately, fwiw.
'04-'06 extended cab v8 Tundras have come down a lot lately, fwiw.
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08-17-2017, 09:12 AM
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I have a friend who bought a 4.0 v6 4Runner crew cab long bed for his track tow vehicle / DD. He's only towed with it a couple of times so far and I have not driven it yet because I rolled his last truck over on the interstate while pulling a trailer with his last car on it. The four liter seems to have surprisingly good torque and power seems great. The long bed was difficult to find with the crew cab but seems to add to the overall stability and certainly it's a lot more useful space in the bed. Seems like plenty of truck for a single Miata and trailer.
'04-'06 extended cab v8 Tundras have come down a lot lately, fwiw.
'04-'06 extended cab v8 Tundras have come down a lot lately, fwiw.
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08-17-2017, 09:32 AM
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00-02 had the trans oiling problem and any of those with over 100,000 miles have certainly had the trans replaced. By 03 they had reengineered it. By 04 they had switched to WS trans oil. My replacement trans was an 04 that took WS oil. I got it for $300 and it has been over 300,000 miles since then so I'm pretty sure they had the problem solved in 2004. That being said I would not hesitate to own a 2000 to 03 or any of them. Somewhere around 2003 or 4 they went to the bigger brake calipers in front but you can buy them for cheap from RockAuto and retrofit any of them since they are a bolt on direct replacement.
Mine is a '01, has the original engine, ac compressor, alternator, ps pump, interior switches, etc. and went 10 hours each way to MATG pulling my car. Has 413,000 miles on it currently. I should probably go ahead and get another one but I selfishly want to say that I drove it to 500,000 miles just to say I did it. I think the catalytic converters are probably bad by now. It keeps throwing a code for that.
Mine is a '01, has the original engine, ac compressor, alternator, ps pump, interior switches, etc. and went 10 hours each way to MATG pulling my car. Has 413,000 miles on it currently. I should probably go ahead and get another one but I selfishly want to say that I drove it to 500,000 miles just to say I did it. I think the catalytic converters are probably bad by now. It keeps throwing a code for that.
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08-17-2017, 09:45 AM
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There is a reason they hold their resale value, they are awesome trucks.
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08-17-2017, 09:51 AM
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00-02 had the trans oiling problem and any of those with over 100,000 miles have certainly had the trans replaced. By 03 they had reengineered it. By 04 they had switched to WS trans oil. My replacement trans was an 04 that took WS oil. I got it for $300 and it has been over 300,000 miles since then so I'm pretty sure they had the problem solved in 2004. That being said I would not hesitate to own a 2000 to 03 or any of them. Somewhere around 2003 or 4 they went to the bigger brake calipers in front but you can buy them for cheap from RockAuto and retrofit any of them since they are a bolt on direct replacement.
Mine is a '01, has the original engine, ac compressor, alternator, ps pump, interior switches, etc. and went 10 hours each way to MATG pulling my car. Has 413,000 miles on it currently. I should probably go ahead and get another one but I selfishly want to say that I drove it to 500,000 miles just to say I did it. I think the catalytic converters are probably bad by now. It keeps throwing a code for that.
Mine is a '01, has the original engine, ac compressor, alternator, ps pump, interior switches, etc. and went 10 hours each way to MATG pulling my car. Has 413,000 miles on it currently. I should probably go ahead and get another one but I selfishly want to say that I drove it to 500,000 miles just to say I did it. I think the catalytic converters are probably bad by now. It keeps throwing a code for that.
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