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my rig pig towing not so good

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Old 03-19-2014, 08:56 PM
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my rig pig towing not so good

Well right now I'm loaded down 12000 lbs of drill pipe in my 97 f250 and it just can't pull it over 50mph I do have a set of baby swamps comeing still with a new clutch is this going to help my towing abilities mostly this truck is just my got rod to get me to and from the rig but when I do have to tow it's quite a lot any thoughts or other up grades
 
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Old 03-19-2014, 09:36 PM
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you need a chip with an appropriate tune...

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Old 03-19-2014, 09:42 PM
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I do i have a custom tunded 6pos with swamps tunes I have intake exhaust gauges
 
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Old 03-19-2014, 09:47 PM
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You have a issue somewhere.
You shouldn't have that much problems with 12k

Have you checked fuel and air filters ?
Does it smoke with tring to tow ?
 
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I just put new filters in at work this morning so I know that they are fine there is a lot of smoke in all gears at low rpms but once I build some boost it does not
 
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Have you checked fuel pressure ?

Black smoke ?
If so I'd start looking for exhaust leaks pre turbo and boost leaks.

Blue smoke?
Could be injector, injector orings or low fuel pressure
 
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Old 03-19-2014, 10:09 PM
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K well I got it up to 70 on I 76 but iffy lugish
 
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what gears? if you have 3.55 gears and oversized tires it will be a slug with that weight.
 
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The many combination of mods is what you have to figure out for the best towing mods. The chip is real important with the baby Swamps!!
 
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My thought would be you have 3.55 gears. I have the 4.10 and I sure notice the trailer when I'm over 10,000 lbs
 
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Well today I loaded with 26 drill pipe at 800 lbs a piece I'm not shur how to upload pics but I I thought last night was bad o my I definitely need to tune this up
 
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You need to tell us what your truck is

gears, trans, tire size, milage, ANY mods that have been done, etc

as for putting 20,800lb load on a trailer behind one of these trucks, YES, you will ALWAYS know it is there no matter what mods you do to it

That truck in the BEST configuration is only rated at 20k GVCW(gross weight of truck, trailer and load), no leads 21k just on the trailer. you are asking WAY to much from your truck, you need a single axle tractor for those weights
 
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K intake exhaust chip with runs 285/65/16 for tires and I just started to blow out brake fluid from slave cylinder it was just replaced less than two months ago will I still have brakes or what
 
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K intake exhaust chip with runs 285/65/16 for tires and I just started to blow out brake fluid from slave cylinder it was just replaced less than two months ago will I still have brakes or what
Slave, master, or wheel cylinder. There all different. Which one is leaking. Brakes are more important than power. If you have no fluid you won't stop. E-brake on anything is not something you want to have to use. At the weights your running I wouldn't take a chance
 
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Slave I think it the one that pushes the forks in to the clutch on the side of the tranny but will this effect my brakes i have no clutch the pedal is stuck to the floor.
 

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