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    Need Advice - 18 Laramie/3.0-Liter V6 EcoDiesel Engine - Enough Power?

    I've had an EcoD for >4yrs. It's really a wonderful truck. But it's not a powerful truck. With only 240hp, it's just not going to accelerate hard, so if that's important to you, the engine is a bad fit. The EcoD's mpg is amazing. I get 23-24mpg in my 50/50 city/highway commute. If I keep it...
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    Extended Warranty - Used/Trade-up

    The upper limits for warranties run 100k to 120k miles. Obviously as miles go up, so does cost. Things to know.... The time to buy an aftermarket warranty is before your current warranty expires. This is because lots of people buy warranties with pre-existing problems. So warranty companies...
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    Prices for Integrated Trailer Brake Controller

    I got mine from a dealer for ~$300 installed. Shop around.
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    My towing test. (10,000 Lbs - 1008 Miles with a 1500)

    A WD hitch wouldn't have helped sag much. Most people don't set them that tight so they move only 60-80lbs from front axle to rear. Those that use the trailer footjack to set the WD hitch drawbars fiercely tight move 150-200lbs rear to front. That's enough to impact sag, but not enough to make...
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    10 Days of Glory

    Awesome.
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    Liking the Airlift 1000 air bags

    I have the same airbags. ~800lbs of trailer tongue weight caused 3" of rear sag and 1" of front lift. Then I put 35psi into the air bags and ended up with 1" and 0". Big win.
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    Tension on wdh

    sicmadek, dscent is right but you aren't. Also, you guys are not saying the same thing. He's talking about weight xfer between truck axles and you're saying trailer and truck at the same level. "Making the camper ride level with the truck" is most certainly not weight distribution. The...
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    Air bags

    My trailer is 7400lbs. It would be unworkable w/o the airbags. See http://www.ramforum.com/f119/ecodiesel_towing_test_suspension_sag_mpg_power_cooling-48504/
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    Traction/Tow Haul

    There isn't consensus on this. I tow a big trailer and I've played around with the button a bit. My perception is that all it does is shift the load vs. rpm curve a bit for the tranny's computer. As a result the tranny is a bit more hesitant to shift gears when the load changes. Shifting under...
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    Ecodiesel towing test. Suspension sag, mpg, power, and cooling

    Ok, so the nice approach didn't work. The harder engineering programs, I mean other than ME, all have at least 2 total semesters of Thermo and Heat Xfer. The lighter engineering programs have 1 semester that kinda combines both. Your writing indicates you don't understand heat. You could...
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    Ecodiesel towing test. Suspension sag, mpg, power, and cooling

    Hmm. I never got back to this thread. Sorry. I'm going to try to correct the confusion here w/o behaving poorly. I don't want to do a beat-down particularly because you're just trying to help and I respect that. The problem here is that one of us is a mechanical engineer that positively worked...
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    Trip report. Maiden voyage 2013 Laramie CC 4x4 26' Jayfeather 254EXP

    I thought I wrote about it here but now I don't see it. See here Ranger's tow thread. Spring droop, mpg, power, and cooling - Page 3
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    brake controller help

    The above guys have it right. I tow 7400lbs and I have the brake controller set to Light per the owner's manual. In experimenting with this, imo Light is fine for that much weight. I don't want the trailer tires to lock up, I just want to feel lots of braking back there when I move the...
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    WD hitch... what brand do you use

    I tow 7400lbs 4-16hrs round trip once/mo. 24' enclosed trailer. For the last 3yrs I've been using a 10k WD hitch that Harbor Freight sells for not much. It's worked very well. Just be sure to use the trailer's footjack to lift the center of the rig so you can get the WD hitch good and tight.
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    Trip report. Maiden voyage 2013 Laramie CC 4x4 26' Jayfeather 254EXP

    I used to have the same issue with my weight distro hitch. Then someone told me to use the trailer's foot jack to lift the center of the rig, then hook up the WD bars. That lets me get the next link in the chain. I now get ~3x as much weight moved rear to front. You can also look at your hitch...
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