- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
I've owned this truck for three months now and about 3,700 miles. I really love the motor and trans. Shifting is seamless and it always Jeeps the motor in its power band.
I've towed the dump trailer with my tractor in it several times now, mostly back and forth from Eagle Mountain to my home in Grantsville. There are a handful of grades on that route that are probably no more than 4% and the truck keeps the speed limit quite easily pulling this load. I had it set at 72 mph on Wednesday coming home with this combo and it shifted clear down to 3rd gear for a few seconds. For a completely stock motor, it sounds absolutely terrific at 5,500 rpm pulling that trailer. 😎 I have no doubt that I could get better mileage if it didn't sound so good.
On this current tank if fuel I fueled up at the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon on our way to Skyline Drive to kill us an Xmas tree.
By the time we reached Fairview Canyon, the trip mpg showed 10.2 mpg because of all of that low speed dirt road exploring. By the time we got home 140 miles later it was at 15.2 mpg. Then I drove to Eagle Mountain to snag the tractor and trailer (56 miles). When I got home, the trip mpg had dropped to 13.7 mpg.
One surprising feature on this truck is the fuel tank. I expected it to be a 28 gallon tank with what I had found online, but it's gotta be a 34 gallon. I've put 32 gallons at a time in there at least 3 times now. That gives it a much more reasonable range than my 2015 F-350 with the 6.2 gas engine and it's 28 gallon tank.
I still haven't pulled my 5th wheel with it. We decided to leave it on the mountain this winter.
I'm not terribly happy with Ford's suspension in the rear. It sags too easily with any trailer hooked up to it, and it doesn't contact the overload spring until it's sagged significantly. That drives me a little crazy, so it will get airbags eventually.
I've towed the dump trailer with my tractor in it several times now, mostly back and forth from Eagle Mountain to my home in Grantsville. There are a handful of grades on that route that are probably no more than 4% and the truck keeps the speed limit quite easily pulling this load. I had it set at 72 mph on Wednesday coming home with this combo and it shifted clear down to 3rd gear for a few seconds. For a completely stock motor, it sounds absolutely terrific at 5,500 rpm pulling that trailer. 😎 I have no doubt that I could get better mileage if it didn't sound so good.
On this current tank if fuel I fueled up at the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon on our way to Skyline Drive to kill us an Xmas tree.
By the time we reached Fairview Canyon, the trip mpg showed 10.2 mpg because of all of that low speed dirt road exploring. By the time we got home 140 miles later it was at 15.2 mpg. Then I drove to Eagle Mountain to snag the tractor and trailer (56 miles). When I got home, the trip mpg had dropped to 13.7 mpg.
One surprising feature on this truck is the fuel tank. I expected it to be a 28 gallon tank with what I had found online, but it's gotta be a 34 gallon. I've put 32 gallons at a time in there at least 3 times now. That gives it a much more reasonable range than my 2015 F-350 with the 6.2 gas engine and it's 28 gallon tank.
I still haven't pulled my 5th wheel with it. We decided to leave it on the mountain this winter.
I'm not terribly happy with Ford's suspension in the rear. It sags too easily with any trailer hooked up to it, and it doesn't contact the overload spring until it's sagged significantly. That drives me a little crazy, so it will get airbags eventually.
