Jerry Burr added:
> For the last 5 years I have ben using a friends '93 Ford 150 long bed,
king
> cab pickup with the 5 litre inline 6....I'm only towing an open trailer
with
> a Lotus 51 so it is not as heavy as some of the other loads being
described,
> but it sure goes down the road and up the hills with out ever breathing
> hard.And It has tons of torque . Towing from Bay area to Seattle at 70MPH
it
> got 16-17 MPG...And I never knew the trailer was there.I'm told that is
the
> motor UPS uses in their trucks...
Really hard to beat the old inline six . . I remember doing a comparison on
the Ford engines offered in the 1988 F150 Ford pickup I bought: The 4.9 six
had gobs more torque than the 302 V8 at ANY rpm and more torque than the
bigger V8 (360?) clear up 3800 rpm, above the normal trailer-towing rpm
range. FedEx and UPS use them, the FedEx fleet server across the street
from my shop was installing a rebuilt 4.9 one day and I was told the
replaced engine had 243 k miles on it . . 243 k miles of stop and go abuse,
wow.
Tony
4.9 Ford F150 with lots of trailer-tow miles up to 7000 pounds gross
trailer weight.
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