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Originally Posted by schwalbach
came with 350 miles by the time the dealer trade was done, first tow with camper 100 miles, took it easy, next tow was 2 horse pull behind, just went easy on it, now have 560 miles, averaged 8.5 with camper staying under 50 mph 10,000 lb next 100 12 pulling 7500 or less horse trailer under 50 mph so should be good, driving it back and forth to work now. even going easy appear to have all the power the diesel had.
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Wow, I hope that last sentence is just you being conservative! Your 5er has a GVWR of 10,000# and a dry weight of 7,199#, so if you have it maxed out with a full 2,801# of payload. That 6.0 with 360 HP should do way better than the 18 year old diesel with 185 HP!
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