Truck has 4.56 rear. The clutch will feather, so I think the clutch is good. It does use some oil, about 1 quart per thousand miles. Has oil seep on front of engine, nothing I would consider major. I don't know about the valves or compression, but truck will do fine once moving. It will climb steep hills as good as I would expect a 23 year old truck to. Wouldn't valves or poor compression cause poor performance on the move too?
I will ask and try to find out about a plugged cat convter. Still seems like this would cause it to struggle while moving as well as starting out.
I am now starting to recalculate what weight I am actually towing. I towed a farmall c tractor with loader to a mechanics house for repairs yesterday. Other then needing to use low gear and slightly slip clutch to get rolling even on flat, the truck did ok. Farmall c weight is around 3000 lbs. Trailer is 2850 lbs. Add the loader and other add ons, I figure I was towing roughly 7000 lbs.
I might take my tractor to weight scales and see how much it really does weigh. Maybe I am hauling way over 10,000 lbs. If any one like to take a guess at weight, I am hauling a kubota mx5200 tractor loaded tires with washer fluid 75%, loader with bucket, fransgard v3507 3ph winch with chains and binders.
Here is my weights,
mx5200. 3716lbs as stated by kubota.
tires. 935lbs at 55gal per tire at 8.5 lbs per gallon
loader. 1400lbs?
bucket. 250lbs?
winch. 408lbs as stated by fransgard
Trailer 2850 as stated by man.
chains and binders. 100lbs?
total weight 9659lbs
then add my weight and misc items in cab, couple chainsaws and I am right about the 10,000lbs area. Truck is rated at 9500lbs bumper pull, but 13000lbs for gooseneck as stated by trailers.com.
One more question. I know over weight is over weight, but if truck is rated for 13,000lbs towing a gooseneck, and handles the tounge weight of what I am towing as I guesstimated at 10,000lbs bumper pull, shouldn't it be able to start out as if it were towing 13,000lbs. Towing weight all the same as far is the engine, transmission, and gear ratios concerned isn't it.