5.2L Towing?
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5.2L Towing?
Hey guys I'm sure it's been discussed numerous times but I want to ask about towing. I'm currently in Afghanistan but when I leave here I only have about 11 months left in the army. My question is when I first moved from Indiana to Kansas me and my wife had hardly anything to our name besides our neon and my ram. Now that we have lived in Kansas for a few years I'm curious what I should do to my truck to tow a fully loaded 18 ft car trailer and my bed being full. My ram is an 01 with a 318 and 3.55 gears and 4x4 auto. I know when we moved to Kansas it did fine but got terrible gas mileage like 12 I think. And I figured since I'm over here I should save up to get a programmer and good exhaust. Is there anything else y'all would recommend? I know my gears are killing me but idk if I should put 3.73 in it or not. Any help would be awesome.
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Be careful not to overload the truck. GVWR is 6400. Mine weighs about 5300 empty and it's 2wd. I wouldn't get a tuner as you would want the torque management when towing. Exhaust and intake would help a little. If you want gears I would go 4.10's or numerically higher. The nice thing about the 3.55's is when you're towing with o/d off the engine isn't screaming when going down the road @ 60 mph. If you don't have a trans cooler I'd recommend one. 12 mpg towing is great! When I towed a 7x16 high top trailer from FL to TN I averaged 7 mpg @ 65 mph, 8 mpg @ 60. Make sure plenum gasket is good and check valve for trans is removed .
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Well I plan on buying the sct tuner. Then going to summit for headers and then ordering the Pypes violator cat back system. I need to check into eliminating the tranny check valve, and maybe putting electric fans on the truck and taking off my clutch fan. I hope I can get by without new gears.
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