Long story short...I pulled a trailer from Houston to Denver and was disappointed with the pickup the whole way. Any help from the crowd to get this corrected would be greatly appreciated!
To give you some info to work with, It's the '99 in my signature. I was fairly happy with the way it ran solo, but I hadn't had the chance to pull anything with it yet. I bought a trailer at auction in Houston so I went down there to get it. The trailer is a Pelsue FOST (you can check it out on their website). Mine is a 94 model so it's just a little different than the one they sell now, but almost the same. It's 7x12 double axle and around 7' tall plus an A/C on top. The tag says it weighs 4135 dry. It trailed nicely but pulled like an anchor! There's no way guys can pull 5er's with a 6.5 if they all pull like mine! On the flat I pulled it at 70mph, seeing 11-13lbs boots and 900F EGT (pre turbo). Any kind of a hill and the egt would climb to 1200 and I'd have to back out of it. Boost would peg my 15psi gauge. I had some wind in spots but not the whole way. I got 11-12mpg on the way back. Unloaded I usually see 16-17. One good hill in east CO I started up at 70 with 1050F egt and reached the top doing 43mph at 1100F egt. That's not much of a trailer for the thing to struggle so hard. WTF? Is it my tune or something else? Time to park the 1 ton and start using the 1/2 ton again?
To give you some info to work with, It's the '99 in my signature. I was fairly happy with the way it ran solo, but I hadn't had the chance to pull anything with it yet. I bought a trailer at auction in Houston so I went down there to get it. The trailer is a Pelsue FOST (you can check it out on their website). Mine is a 94 model so it's just a little different than the one they sell now, but almost the same. It's 7x12 double axle and around 7' tall plus an A/C on top. The tag says it weighs 4135 dry. It trailed nicely but pulled like an anchor! There's no way guys can pull 5er's with a 6.5 if they all pull like mine! On the flat I pulled it at 70mph, seeing 11-13lbs boots and 900F EGT (pre turbo). Any kind of a hill and the egt would climb to 1200 and I'd have to back out of it. Boost would peg my 15psi gauge. I had some wind in spots but not the whole way. I got 11-12mpg on the way back. Unloaded I usually see 16-17. One good hill in east CO I started up at 70 with 1050F egt and reached the top doing 43mph at 1100F egt. That's not much of a trailer for the thing to struggle so hard. WTF? Is it my tune or something else? Time to park the 1 ton and start using the 1/2 ton again?