[Fot] Towing (New F-150)

[BillDentin at aol.com]

Amici...

The last decade or so that I raced, I towed my twenty foot Pace America box 
trailer, using a one ton Chevrolet cargo van, which has a 6.5 diesel 
engine.  I loved using the big cargo van, because it offered lots, and lots of 
storage options.  I never used it for sleeping, but you sure could do so.  A 
short suit was that diesel engine was the one Chevy converted from a gasoline 
engine (NOT Chevy's finest hour).

But I bring it up because Russell mentioned the difference he experienced 
when towing a box trailer.  One thing we did was buy an air deflector that 
sat up on the roof of the van, and deflected air over the box trailer.  That 
made a measurable difference in gas mileage (10% +/-).  That was not an 
expensive after market item, and might be worth looking into for those using a 
suburban or a van type vehicle to tow box trailers down the road.

Bill Dentinger
  
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