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lol.

I do enjoy passing gas 3/4T's struggling to tow a toy boat while we're pulling two racecars in a 42' Gooseneck with the Ram 3500 up the 6%, 5 mile long Grapevine in the summer

1,000 lb-ft torque
#cummins4lyfe

1050 ft-lbs in the PowerStroke :)

A year or so we were talking about tongue weight scales. Since I needed a new ball mount/draw bar/whatever for the Ford (it's taller than the Chevy and has a 3" square receiver tube rather than 2") I decided to buy one of the weigh-safe ones with a built-in scale.

Tongue weight is about a thousand pounds with the trailer loaded -- a little high (total trailer weight is around 8000), but not terrible. I was surprised to discover that tongue weight goes UP after unloading the car, to around 1350 lbs.

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--Ian

Nice, I have one of those to measure my ~350lbs of tongue weight. Not that precise at the low end :)

I do use all 8” of the drop, though!

With all the mods that I've done to my '00 7.3l dually I think that I'm sitting somewhere around 300whp and 700wtq just looking at dyno sheets from other people. I can't just blast up steep grades like the newer trucks but it's plenty to chug up hills with the 42' gooseneck if I drop down a gear or two (6 speed manual) and maintain about 55mph. The EGT gauge is the one that decides how fast I go but I've got no problems with that since it cost me a fraction of the price and hilariously enough my truck has been appreciating in value ever since I got it. Absolutely crazy what these 99-03 super duty's are going for nowadays even with a boatload of miles.

The pickup truck guideline is spot on......but what's the deal with newer F150's having difficult to service brakes? Reason I ask is I have a older 01 7.3 F250 and was debating on going down to a newer F150 as my open trailer/miata combo is pretty basic and tow largely in the central valley here so it all pretty flat....

Arca_ex - your right - I could sell my truck and get 13k for it were-as 3 years ago I probably could of got 7k on a good day...probably more if I had the 6 speed.

I have no idea honestly.

Also. Good luck picking up a new Ford truck right now... I've NEVER seen so many F150s parked around here. Literally every empty lot or piece of space is FILLED with them. It's actually pretty insane.
Ironically, there are very little Broncos sitting around.
We were just talking about it in the group chat. I guessed 100k trucks. A friend of mine who is an engineer at the truck plant says they are preparing to park 75k of them.
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Missing the parts to put some of the electronics in them?

Apparently they've turned off ordering on the 2021 F-250s and won't be accepting orders for 2022s until September -- good thing I didn't wait any longer to get mine. As it is, the trailer camera/TPMS module that I'm supposed to have didn't show up with the truck and is on indefinite back-order.

--Ian

It's most certainly a pretty swell time to be in the semiconductor industry

Does anyone tow with adaptive air ride? I've been towing with my Tahoe and its been fine. At highway speeds it does ok with the uhaul trailer and it will slowly choo choo its way up hills. However, my rear suspension is shot, so my rear end sags more than I'd like. I would really like to convert to a traditional shock/spring combo and then run airlift bags. To replace the air suspension and pump just seems like an expense that I'm not super interested in, especially since I don't see a huge upside in having it. I daily the tahoe, but I don't foresee the ride being any worse with a traditional suspension setup.

My dad just picked up a 2021 f150. He ordered it in November and he took delivery 2 weeks ago. It was held at the plant for a week or two to get the "chip" installed before transport.

Well crap...guess I'll be waiting until fall to get in line for one now.

If you want one get in line now. They're talking about shutting down production completely.


75,000 trucks. It's not a small amount.

My Ram Ecodiesel has the adaptive factory air ride. It's pretty awesome. I'm not sure I would have ordered the truck that way, but having got the truck used I have no complaints. It's awesome for leveling the truck once the trailer is attached.

Side benefit...put it in slammed mode, back up to trailer, raise it into the ball. Done.

My Ram 3500 has the factory air suspension too. So nice.

Does anyone have any current insight or suggestions on trailer TPMS?
There was some discussion about trailer TPMS way back HERE Search brought up a few more results in this thread, but nothing substantial.

Anyone have some long term testimonials?

These two "tire minder" seem to be the popular Amazon ones. With the higher priced one looking to be a better option.

I still have the TireTraker. I needed to put the booster module in the trailer to get reliable signals up to the receiver in the truck (depends on the details of the trailer & truck construction -- it was optional when I bought mine, but looks like it might be included now) and the transmitters on the valve stems need a new battery about once a year, but it's all worked fine.

My new Ford came with factory trailer TPMS as an option, but since I don't have the sensors installed inside the tires I'm not using it yet. I'll probably install those sensors and retire the TT-600 when it gets new tires later this year.

--Ian

I have the i10. Other than the screen being scratched like it had been used for years despite being NIB, it's been "fine".

I use the booster. The alligator clips are worthless, be ready to snip them off and hardwire. And don't attach it to your break-away battery like I did, it'll drain it to beyond dead, duh.

The screen is hard to read while driving, and for anything less than a semi, the layout is crap.

Basically, I plug it in and expect it to grab my attention if something's wrong. It does that, but has lots of room for improvement.

I have the Tymate.
I've got an '04 access cab Tundra and the Trailex Mid-size Sports Car trailer. No booster needed. The readings matched exactly to the Accugauge is used to fill the tires to proper pressure. It was a little difficult to set up--the instructions are not very clear and the unit can display eight or ten tire pressures/temps, so there was some menu shenanigans to go through. I've got the trailer tires at 60 pounds per the seller's recommendation, and I set the High pressure warning at 65 pounds on the Tymate. That goes off most trips, so I need to make an adjustment. I have the unit on top of the dash, just right of center and there's no problem with reading the numbers.

Headed to WV. Stepped across the scales. Not sure I'd want to take this rig over the rockies.

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