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  1. RangerGress

    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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    Do I need LT tires to tow?

    Talking about load ratings instead of AT vs. LT is prob a better discussion for how a tire will handle heavy loads. The P275/60 R20's my truck came with have a load rating of 114 so 2601lbs. The HTS's above at 119XL are apparently rated for 2998lbs, so that's the right direction. Tires rated for...
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    Do I need LT tires to tow?

    I am a mechanical engineer. I also spent a year teaching HS physics, which is where rotational inertia is often taught. I've been racing BMWs for 7yrs. I probably wouldn't be surprised. Being concerned re. a couple of lbs of weight of truck tires is silly.
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    3.0 ecodiesel

    Lots of EcoDiesel threads in various forums. There are also a couple forums expressly for the EcoDiesel. DEF. The cost of DEF is so close to zero it's a non-issue. Oil changes. There's a number of discussions at bitog re. inexpensive oil solutions for the EcoDiesel. Lots of oil engineers...
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    Do I need LT tires to tow?

    You're worried about the weight of your tires? That's silly.
  20. RangerGress

    Rear suspension help

    +1. I did a bare bones install because I figured that the most simple install would be the most reliable. Therefore no onboard pump. I pump up to 35psi when I'm towing a 7400lb trailer once a month, and otherwise the drop them down to 5psi. Cheap, reliable, and function as advertised.
  21. RangerGress

    First Ecodiesel roadtrip, 370mi, 7600lb 24' enclosed trailer.

    Road Atlanta Turn 5 is hellishly tricky. It's my worse turn at RA. God knows there's a lot of ways for that turn to go really badly in a hurry. It can look fine, then all the sudden the car gets upset by the exit rumblestrip and in an eye-blink you're backwards heading for a wall. Re...
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    First Ecodiesel roadtrip, 370mi, 7600lb 24' enclosed trailer.

    Sorry, can't help. Mine is 2WD.
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    First Ecodiesel roadtrip, 370mi, 7600lb 24' enclosed trailer.

    Video games are very limited in our house. Therefore with the carrot of video games, the kids will do anything. The racer paddock at RA is in a big hole tho. Not sure if I can get an Internet connection down there.
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    First Ecodiesel roadtrip, 370mi, 7600lb 24' enclosed trailer.

    Re. CMP. I suck at CMP. I've a bezillion laps there and I'm not very fast. This past weekend I was running PR times tho. Really quite surprising. I was doing PR times at Roebling Road last month too. Is hard to understand why I'm suddenly running times like "the old days." I had 3 crashes in...
  25. RangerGress

    Cheap and elegant tow mirror solution

    Bottom line up front. Cheap parabolic mirror is probably all you really need to get tow mirror visibility out of a standard mirror. Details. I tow a 24' enclosed trailer so when I ordered a truck I ordered it with tow mirrors. That truck got stuck in QA Hold for a month so I got a truck off...

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