flusher
Super Member
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2005
- Messages
- 7,538
- Location
- Sacramento
- Tractor
- Getting old. Sold the ranch. Sold the tractors. Moved back to the city.
I'm getting closer to finding the 1999-2003 3/4 or 1T PU I need to pull a 10K GN for hauling my parade tractors (heaviest is about 4500 lb).
I'll be test driving some candidates soon.
This will be the first PU I've bought totally for towing grunt.
Question: short of putting the candidate truck on a dyno or hooking up a loaded 10K GN trailer, what should I look for that will tell me if the truck will tow loads anywhere near the specs you find in the manuals or that you read about in forums like this one?
Any tricks of the trade that I should use during a test drive to get a handle on this question?
I'd hate to get stuck with an otherwise acceptable truck that has a worn out engine that's short on grunt.
I'll be test driving some candidates soon.
This will be the first PU I've bought totally for towing grunt.
Question: short of putting the candidate truck on a dyno or hooking up a loaded 10K GN trailer, what should I look for that will tell me if the truck will tow loads anywhere near the specs you find in the manuals or that you read about in forums like this one?
Any tricks of the trade that I should use during a test drive to get a handle on this question?
I'd hate to get stuck with an otherwise acceptable truck that has a worn out engine that's short on grunt.