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Originally Posted by notanlines
Just as a clarification, I was referring to the "12K and through the mountains" part of the claim, not so much that the turbo 6 wasn't better overall than the V8.
Keep in mind we once towed a 22 foot travel trailer from Memphis to Maryland and then to Charlotte with our E-250 Supervan, Windsor, 205 HP. You have never heard such screaming from an engine through West Virginia. Underpowered maybe? Do ya think?
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That "12K" with any 1/2 ton would have garnered 1 of 2 or maybe both reponses. Either "What total BS" or "Your a dangerous idiot", irrespective of what's bolted to the transmission. JMHO
Very familiare with the paved "goat paths" in WV. It's not the altitude but the grades and swich backs to climb those mountains that make them difficult. Most with no shoulders and not much in the way of a guard rail. Most of those roads were built by the WPA in the late 1930's by hand and mule powered wagons with little to no improvement since.