Towing Advice?
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Towing Advice?
I’m looking at a prospect 7.3 IDI F250. It’s about 2 hours each way and I have a 96 150 to tow with. The odds are kind of against me, I have an exhaust leak in my truck already. It’s the inline 6 with a 3.08 in the back (2wd) with 29 inch Goodyear tires. On top of all this it’s a bumper hitch. Is there any way in hell that I could possibly tow this IDI home? I know it sounds like mission impossible but I wanted some input from everyone. Also meant to add. I just rebuilt the trans in my 96 and I installed the HD-2 Tiger kit by Transgo for the E4OD (if that helps in any way).
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Personally, i would be calling a friend with a more capable truck. Or perhaps renting a truck from uhaul to do it.
If it was 10 or 15 miles and you could take back roads and go 30 miles per hour... maybe. But, 2 hours, no way. Because if you dont have a hitch, ill be betting you don't have trailer brakes. And at some point in a 2 hour drive, you will probably have some amount of higjway to contend with and some sort of hill.
Forget the underpowered and undergeared totally. You dont have a way to safely stop the whole shebang.
Sorry man i can't see a way to safely do this trip. Like i said at first, if it was a few miles maybe but not this distance.
If it was 10 or 15 miles and you could take back roads and go 30 miles per hour... maybe. But, 2 hours, no way. Because if you dont have a hitch, ill be betting you don't have trailer brakes. And at some point in a 2 hour drive, you will probably have some amount of higjway to contend with and some sort of hill.
Forget the underpowered and undergeared totally. You dont have a way to safely stop the whole shebang.
Sorry man i can't see a way to safely do this trip. Like i said at first, if it was a few miles maybe but not this distance.
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I’m looking at a prospect 7.3 IDI F250. It’s about 2 hours each way and I have a 96 150 to tow with. The odds are kind of against me, I have an exhaust leak in my truck already. It’s the inline 6 with a 3.08 in the back (2wd) with 29 inch Goodyear tires. On top of all this it’s a bumper hitch. Is there any way in hell that I could possibly tow this IDI home? I know it sounds like mission impossible but I wanted some input from everyone. Also meant to add. I just rebuilt the trans in my 96 and I installed the HD-2 Tiger kit by Transgo for the E4OD (if that helps in any way).
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