Tow Rig

[you da man]

Any gas burning truck will get about half of it's city mileage when it's towing.

That's a good way of putting it seeing that my friend's Hemi truck gets 7-8 towing a 24ft Supra

[mmandley]

FWIW I have an 07' F150 with the 5.4 Liter, I don't really check mileage much but I would say I get about 14 around town and 12 or so towing a boat my guess is the Hemi will get similar.

I have the Gyphon performance computer in mine and the instant mileage generally says 12 or 13 in town in performance mode not towing. I average 12 per tank so it seems pretty accurate.

Towing i switch it to Tow mode and in town im getting 8 to 10.

Freeway 55 in the local areas i get 12 and when i take it south doing 60 to 65 i get 10 when shes in 3rd and 12 in OD.

Yea when im towing i dont worry so much about gas mileage, i worry more about the jerks who cut in front of me then hit there brakes to make that dam right turn they could have made when they were behind me.

[dru1974]

Drove the new truck tonight. Wow it is smooth and like piloting the enterprise there are so many options....itsca real beauty. I will post some pics when I can.

[you da man]

congrats on the truck. You should try driving the Dodge Mega Cab, too bad they stopped making it.

[Sled491]

Kind of after the fact, but back in the day when we were racing we were pulling our race hauler with a brand new Chev 6 litre. Was getting about 6mpg on the highway pulling our 40 ft trailer. The next year we switched to the Cummins. I put on a 4" exhaust and K&N FIPK. We were getting about 12 - 14mpg pulling the trailer after that.

My buddy has the 09 dodge 1500, he can't say enough good about it.