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Originally Posted by zanegrey
Hey Pappy, any ideas how the V-10 would do up here in the Colorado Rockies? I live at 9K feet and if you look at my past posts about my 2008 F-350, I've already blown a motor (20K miles) and continue to have continuous regen / DPF issues! I've always been a diesel fan but I've had it and really considering going back to a gasser! Just wondering how it'll do at altitude pulling hay and cattle? Heaviest load would be 200 small squares (13,000 lbs) on my gooseneck flat bed trailer.
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Hey Leo,
I live up on the Front Range in Castle Rock and I know the Summit County area pretty decent. I haven't had my 2005 V10 4.10 up there, but I can offer some towing experiences down here. I've towed my Sundowner 4 horse gooseneck trailer (5K empty) and a 16ft hydraulic dump trailer (5.5K empty) with various loads between 10K and 12K around Colorado and between here and Portland, Oregon. I can say that the V10 does feel the altitude some, but with the loads I've pulled I haven't had any complaints. Here's a few data points.
10K trailer, Pendleton, Oregon, EastBound up Cabbage Hill. 5-6% grade for 5-6 miles. Starting elevation: ~ 1000ft. I put the TS in 3rd and let 'er rip...climbed easy...plenty of pedal left. Some of the curves on that climb are sharp, slow down to 50, then just a little sqeeze of the pedal (not wide open) and you're back up at 60-65. Same load, I-80 in Wyoming, east of Laramie, climbing Telegraph Hill. 5-6% for about 5 miles. Starting elevation is about 8,000ft. Climbed that hill in 3rd again, wide open at about 68MPH. No big curves on that one to slow down for. So I needed more pedal in Wyoming than I did in Oregon.
One more for ya: 12K trailer (dump trailer with the Kubota L3130 on the back, plus implements), climbing I25's Monument Hill between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock. About a 5% grade at 7500ft. Climbed that one wide open in 3rd at about 65-68MPH. Had to slow down for a truck on that climb to, down to the mid-upper 50s...V10 had plenty to accelerate from there.
So, nothing as high as what you're talking about running but maybe my experiences will help a bit.
Ord.
