F250 6.2 V8 vs F150 Ecoboost

[sdef]

What kind of weight do you estimate this to be? How is truck set up...Max Tow, 3.73 axle ratio, using WD hitch or standard hitch, does it seem to handle this weight ok?

+1. Although I did not see the 6.2 option for the 2015 model. Attached are the specs for the 2014 model.
View attachment 2014-f150-tech-specs.pdf

A 2014 is still on my list, especially if I stumble upon a great deal on one.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

What kind of weight do you estimate this to be? How is truck set up...Max Tow, 3.73 axle ratio, using WD hitch or standard hitch, does it seem to handle this weight ok?

The tractor as it sits in this photo is 7300ish pounds. The trailer I want to say is 2600 pounds.

Truck is 3.55 rear end with an 3.5 V6. No problems towing. Hoofs along in 6th gear at 75 mph on the flats, holds the speed on hills and shifts down to fourth. This is the lightest configuration for my tractor and I've towed it heavier as well. Making sure the tire pressure in the trailer is at 80 psi is huge as it really effects mpg and what gear I can run in.

Here is the same set-up towing 1400 more pounds.

 

[TomSeller]

The tractor as it sits in this photo is 7300ish pounds. The trailer I want to say is 2600 pounds.

Those wouldn't be guesses, would they?

 

[deere5105]

The tractor as it sits in this photo is 7300ish pounds. The trailer I want to say is 2600 pounds. Truck is 3.55 rear end with an 3.5 V6. No problems towing. Hoofs along in 6th gear at 75 mph on the flats, holds the speed on hills and shifts down to fourth. This is the lightest configuration for my tractor and I've towed it heavier as well. Making sure the tire pressure in the trailer is at 80 psi is huge as it really effects mpg and what gear I can run in. Here is the same set-up towing 1400 more pounds.

Good to hear. Looking forward to trying mine out with tractor and trailer.

I also noticed your 4x4 sticker looks a little different than the one that came on mine!

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Good to hear. Looking forward to trying mine out with tractor and trailer.

I also noticed your 4x4 sticker looks a little different than the one that came on mine!��

The joke is that US Treasury bailouts have always created revenue for the Treasury and limited damage to the downside by retaining jobs. Perspectives on the issue vary: Investors like it when everything crashes quickly and hard as such things put everything under the sun on fire sale (due to a lack of anybody willing to spend or deploy money) and provide the ground work for speedy recoveries, whereas bailouts tend to put crashes into slow-motion and then function to dampen the depth of economic devastation, while for common Joes and the poor, crashes simply lower their quality of life. Ironically, since financial theory isn't taught, the very people most helped by bailouts also were the most vocal against them. This irony amusing me to no end (especially when most people lumped auto bailouts with banking backstops), and thus I put no bailout addition on my truck.

 

[wawajake]

The joke is that US Treasury bailouts have always created revenue for the Treasury and limited damage to the downside by retaining jobs. Perspectives on the issue vary: Investors like it when everything crashes quickly and hard as such things put everything under the sun on fire sale (due to a lack of anybody willing to spend or deploy money) and provide the ground work for speedy recoveries, whereas bailouts tend to put crashes into slow-motion and then function to dampen the depth of economic devastation, while for common Joes and the poor, crashes simply lower their quality of life. Ironically, since financial theory isn't taught, the very people most helped by bailouts also were the most vocal against them. This irony amusing me to no end (especially when most people lumped auto bailouts with banking backstops), and thus I put no bailout addition on my truck.

Selective memory I see and somewhat gullible...........Ford took tax payer money to make the ecobuosts, but the blue oval is what your driving so that makes omission of the facts okay I see!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Selective memory I see and somewhat gullible...........Ford took tax payer money to make the ecobuosts, but the blue oval is what your driving so that makes omission of the facts okay I see!

The difference is they didn't need the money to keep the doors open. The money given to Ford was a grant to develop more fuel efficient engines. End of story.

Chris

 

[sdef]

As alluded to in earlier posts, I had been becoming enamored with the F 150/3.5 TT Ecoboost concept, especially with the maximum torque at 2500 RPM and possibility of better unloaded vehicle fuel mileage. However, while reading my April issue of Consumer Reports magazine (2015 Annual Auto Issue), I see the Ecoboosts in various bodies are listed as "Used Models to Avoid", with the 2011 and 2013 F150s as some of those. But also the 2011 V8 4WDs and F250s and F350s. I imagine that as time goes on, other year models will be added as the experience grows. So maybe things are no so rosy in new Ford land. And I know GM and Dodge are also having problems, with Toyota as the only truck OEM with a high rating. But Toyota does not have the towing capacity I require.

So maybe I need to rethink my tow vehicle purchase with possibly purchasing an older 3/4 ton, knowing I will have some repair bills looming. I still have time to decide but, was really wanting the reliability of a new/newused vehicle.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Selective memory I see and somewhat gullible...........Ford took tax payer money to make the ecobuosts, but the blue oval is what your driving so that makes omission of the facts okay I see!

I'm well aware that Ford took $9B to help accelerate and subsidize the development of EB after their company was already recovering, but Ford didn't receive any money to keep the doors open. Ford happened to be in the right place and at the right time in its overall development cycle to be the ablest candidate to put good use with the money.

 

[wawajake]

Good spin........... if that makes you feel better.

Winston Churchill put it very well when he said “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”