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Well, we decided to head up north for a few days to enjoy the cooler weather since it looks like the heat wave is beginning in Az. I took the truck and trailer down to the scales before we left to see exactly where I'm at weight wise with our setup:
Truck w/ full tank of gas, the family, sliding tool box full of tools, sliding bed extender and the increased weight of the new LT tires came in a 5,600 lbs.
The Trailer came in at 5,700 lbs with 700 lbs of tongue weight.
I continue to be truly amazed with this truck. We took the trailer on a quick test run back in Jan but I didn't want to push the truck too hard since it only had 1k miles on it at the time and it did very well. This time I decided to be more agressive when we hit the 6-7% grades going out of town just to see how well it would really do and I was even more impressed with this trip than I was the first time. We were able to maintain 65-70 mph up the grades in 92 degree heat with the A/C on and the engine and tranny temp gauges didn't even budge past normal temp readings! We also averaged 9 mpg which is darn good to me considering our average speed was a little faster than I typically drive.
Just another testimony of a phenominal truck!
Karl
Truck w/ full tank of gas, the family, sliding tool box full of tools, sliding bed extender and the increased weight of the new LT tires came in a 5,600 lbs.
The Trailer came in at 5,700 lbs with 700 lbs of tongue weight.
I continue to be truly amazed with this truck. We took the trailer on a quick test run back in Jan but I didn't want to push the truck too hard since it only had 1k miles on it at the time and it did very well. This time I decided to be more agressive when we hit the 6-7% grades going out of town just to see how well it would really do and I was even more impressed with this trip than I was the first time. We were able to maintain 65-70 mph up the grades in 92 degree heat with the A/C on and the engine and tranny temp gauges didn't even budge past normal temp readings! We also averaged 9 mpg which is darn good to me considering our average speed was a little faster than I typically drive.
Just another testimony of a phenominal truck!
Karl