Well since I volunteered to go overseas I had to move my wife back to her parents house. I had the Raider 4door 4x4 V8 and a 6x12 trailer...weighed the vehicle and trailer with motorcycle and furniture and stuff and it was 9004lbs so what ever our truck weighs minus that..She handled it ok I guess. that is alot of weight. I had to drive mostly through country but a couple of cities in NC. In the city the temp gauge got up to around 3/4 which kinda scared me...but I was pushing her a little not to block up too much traffic...I thought the electric fan might have popped a fuse but it hadn't. I got about 13 MPG which isnt too bad. I'm not sure what the weight limit for the truck was but I am sure I was close to it...I feel bad for her, so tommorow I'm gonna put a fresh oil change in her and some water wetter..

On a different note the electric fan setup I have with the high/low settings, I though I would wire it up to run on high instead of low and it kept on blowing fuses...i put a 30 in her and it popped when it started up...any ideas? Im thinking maybe a ground on the high side wire of the motor...I will check tommorow.. Is the reason my temp was getting so high because I was towing and trying to accelerate too fast?

 

well you've got all that weight on the truck its gonna make it weigh more but i mean you were only towing what like 2500 pounds? our trucks are supposed to haul like 7,000 pounds with the V8's? not sure but thats what i think it is and if it was at like 3/4 with only a 2,000 pound load then yeah that is kinda like weird but idk cause i don't do much hauling with my monster!

 

I would check all the wires for your fan. It dont sound like it is geting enough air. I pull a 6x12 with a standby generator, 3 welders, 40 gal air compressor, tool boxes, and more loaded heavy and mine dont go to half way with the stock fan

 

Well with trailer and load it was about 4550 that I towed.. The fan works fine...The a/c blows reall cold. I may have had the setting the thermostat switch a little high so that may have been it. If I see it continuing to have problems I'm going to remove it and put a new fan in.

 

also I think the 7000 lbs is with the HO motor...raiders dont come with that engine.

 

7000 is with the 3.92 gears and the the weight distribution hitch

3.92 gears is 6800lbs
3.55 gears is 5000lbs

 

Yup I have the 3.92.. I think I was just accelerating too damn fast [:@].

 

i towed like some where around 5000lbs from AZ to Oklahoma. like 1000 miles and averaged 14mpg i don't tow much so i don't know if thats bad or not.... it towed like a champ the only problem was the uhaul trailer (12x6) was crappy and can't really tow faster than 50mph.

 

I just did about 100-120 miles with the 16 foot cargo trailer loaded to about 5000 pounds (including the trailer) up to the Poconos...some major, major hills and it did okay...it was a little sluggish on some of the hills. The last hill was 3/4 mile long, with an 11% grade...I could only pull that at 30 mph in 2nd gear. On the highway, it did okay...it would keep a steady 65 mph over 4th, 5th or 6th gear, depending on the grade. I-81 in PA, north of Harrisburg, is pretty much all hills.

 

mb, my dad actually lives in Easton/wilson pa...about 5 minutes from when 81 intersects with 22