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Originally Posted by Racebug
hahaha. I had a f150 with the 5.0 for about 10 years. it could hardly pull a log splitter!! ok not that bad, but if you put 4000 lbs behind it, might as well leave it in 3rd gear cuz it wont pull 4th and forget about 5th. it didn't like 5th empty.  |
I pull our 4600 LB (dry) trailer just fine with a 2013 F150 5.0, with a 3:55 rear gear and average 10 - 12 MPG doing it.
It regularly shifts into 6th.
I am pretty sure the engines available in F150s were the 4.6 and 5.4 until fairly recently, when the 5.0 DOHC Coyote was intorduced.
-Brian