Fuel mileage towing

[ford4life]

GALLONS PER MILE
14.76

You sure you don't have a 460 gasser under the hood with 14 GPM? Don't worry about the spreadsheet, I do it too.

 

[DaveBen]

NOW that makes sense!!

Dave

 

[powerboatr]

bama lucky me my laptop has a BIG battery


yep this is all mileage and fuel, we have about 12000 miles of that towing cargo or the rv. and we get worse mileage pulling the little 7x14 cargo than the rv

 

[JLDickmon]

OK, my truck is a 2004 super duty, 6.0, 4X4, 3.73 ratio, w/ A/C on running 75mph, I have also tried towing at 68mph still no change. Seems that no matter what I do mileage does not change.

ever think about upgrading the tires on the trailer to a medium duty/commercial type, like a Goodyear G674 or something? You may have the same problem as my g/n horse trailer does... shiite tires make for shiite hauling...

 

['57turbo]

I tow a car trailer (5500-6000) I have seen a low of 12 MPG and a high of 16. The RPM range was no more than 2000 for my best.

 

[BamaSixGun]

i get about 13 mpg towing a 36' 2 car trailer with 5th wheel, weighing anywhere from 20k to 24k with the cruise on 73, 2000 rpm, a/c on, and the banks 6gun on level 3.

 

[Maxtor]

larger stock down pipe on 06 manual trans.

Just found out from Bank's tech that the down pipe on 06 Ford with manual trans is larger than down pipe on automatics. He said that the stock (manual trans.) down pipe flows the same as their improved down pipe. Explains the good fuel mileage that I have been getting.