One other piece of advice when towing a trailer. Always fill up with
premium gas. It will cause your engine and transmission to run much
cooler with less pinging. I learned this the hard way, when pulling my
boat down the highway, during the hot summers we have here in Oklahoma.
I actually burned up a transmission, due to an overheated engine. About
$1200 later, I wised up and started running premium whenever I hauled my
boat. No more problems after that, and I could climb hills with ease.
Larry
51 Chevy 3100
OKC OK
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:03:49 -0600 "Bobby D Keeland"
<bob_keeland@usgs.gov> writes:
> I used to have a full size ford van with 300 inline 6 and AOD
> transmission.
> When I moved from Monterrey, CA to Walla Walla, WA I had the van
> completely
> full and pulled the largest enclosed trailer u-haul made. The
> trailer was
> also completely full. At times I could not exceed about 15 mph while
> driving through the mountains of northern CA. Every now and then I
> had to
> stop to let the motor cool down. I worried a bit about possible
> damage to
> the motor or transmission, but I got more than 150,000 more miles
> out of
> both before the motor gave out at 250,000 miles a few years ago.
>
> My advise, if you decide to use your Ford Explorer, is to just take
> everything easy. No jack rabbit starts or anything like that. Once
> on the
> highway keep your speed low and you should be just fine. If you
> want to
> tow at high speed or if your Explorer has a V-6, rent the u-haul
> truck.
>
> BobK
> 51 3600 5-window (in pieces)
> Arnaudville, LA
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> BLUCHEETAH@aol.com
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> Sent by: To:
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> owner-oletrucks@aut cc:
>
> ox.team.net Subject:
> [oletrucks] Trailering advice
>
>
>
>
> 02/17/03 02:44 AM
>
> Please respond to
>
> BLUCHEETAH
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> Hey Everyone,
> I've located a '53 Chevrolet 1/2 ton in Colorado (I'm on the Texas
> Coast).
> I've given the guy a deposit to hold it until I can drive up there
> and
> check
> it out. I don't have a trailer, but the plan was to check it out, if
> I like
>
> it, rent a u-haul dolly trailer and drive it back to Texas. My
> questions
> are
> these: Is there any reason you guys think I shouldn't drag this back
> on a
> dolly trailer? Apparently the guy who is selling this feels it's in
> good
> enough shape (drivable) and doesn't think it's a problem. Any
> foreseeable
> problems you can think of? Do you think my 1994 Ford Explorer can
> handle
> the
> load?
> Thanks for the first of a lot of advice.
> Susan B.
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> 1959
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