U-haul may have quality issues, but, if any of their equipment breaks down, it gets repaired/replaced, at no additional cost to you. (I have personal experience with this. They took VERY good care of me, my wife, a friend that was with, and our dog.......)

I suppose if you have money to burn, buying a set of tires for one trip is doable.... (even though it makes zero sense to me.....) but, most folks don't.

 

I'm running the metric equivalent of 33's or just a little smaller. I will probably buy some tires before I go but I can't justify a set just for the trip. This is as small as I can stand on my truck with the lift it has.

That is a great point about trying it and worst case if I break down I just swap our stuff from the trailer to a uhaul truck and tow my truck the rest of the way. It'd be a pain but it's a good backup plan in case I decide to try this.

 

On a related side note, torque converters, is there any way to access their health? I was doing some reading about low stall torque converters for towing. I'm not sure how to tell if I would benefit from a new one. Any suggestions?

 

*just* replacing the torque converter is a waste of money. Trans has to come out for that to happen, and that is the bulk of the labor cost of a rebuild in any event. If I were going to get that serious, I would just go for the rebuild, and a new converter to go with it.

So far as I know, there is no real way to gauge the health of the torque converter. It pretty much just works.... until it doesn't..... Of course, it's usually something else that fails first, and simply takes the T/C with it. Our trucks tend to waste the clutch in the T/C though.... and that scatters crap thru the trans, which fails shortly thereafter. The T/C was (is...) considered one of the weak points of the trans. Replacing it with some 80 dollar "OEM Replacement" is another waste of time/money. It's a truck, give it something that will hold up. If you are spending less than 200 on the T/C, you are just giving yourself future trouble.

 

I'd be replacing it myself so labor cost isn't a factor. Good to know that the TC is probably still good though