Who says a 6.5 cant tow

[HANK1948]

Heres some pics of My 96 crew cab dually taking my 1972 C50 stake truck to the scrap yard with a GVCW of 26,500 lbs I towed it 60 miles. The stake truck weighted 10,500 and the trailer is about 7,000.
With my new Westers reflash ECM she towed it great on a 91 deg day with the air on, EGT's didnt get hotter than 800, trans temp was 200, and coolant got to 220 once going up a big hill.

Not to bad for a 11 year old 6.5

[Robyn]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Looking good

Post a nice piccy of your truck and trailer on the Photo's forum as we would all love to see this Bad boy

Later

Robyn

[arveetek]

Ummm......did the '72 get crushed?

It looks like a pretty decent old truck.....

Casey

[wes-in-nc]

Did you take the tach out of that truck? Did it have speed minder??

[Turbine Doc]

18K# on mine rite at 24K# total, but if you are going to do it often you need a few more mods, brakes, trans, fuel to go with the other stuff, deep trans pan & extra tans cooler another cooling for up to 25K# over factory helps keep my temps in check never over 200F on trans nor over 210 F on water temps up to 75mph on 100F day, max EGT post turbo GM-8 950 post turbo 12-13 max boost (self limiting) can go 17 psi if need be, IMO too much stress 17 psi with factory CR

[HANK1948]

Did you take the tach out of that truck? Did it have speed minder??

No, it didnt have a tach or a speed minder it was a plain jane truck.

I thought about removing some parts but most of the worthy parts were rusty or pitted.

[HANK1948]

Ummm......did the '72 get crushed?

It looks like a pretty decent old truck.....

Casey

It looked good @ 50/50 (50 feet or 50 mph) the cab was very rusty holes though the roof, the bed wasnt too bad but the frame wasnt great. The brakes were shot and the motor needed help.

I originally (7 years ago) got it to haul my antique tractors to pulls and shows. that was before I got my dually. The work it was going to take to make it road worthy just wasnt worth it. Since I have my dually, I bought a new 30ft gooseneck and haul all my tractors, makes life easier mantain one truck not two.

[wes-in-nc]

18K# on mine rite at 24K# total, but if you are going to do it often you need a few more mods, brakes, trans, fuel to go with the other stuff, deep trans pan & extra tans cooler another cooling for up to 25K# over factory helps keep my temps in check never over 200F on trans nor over 210 F on water temps up to 75mph on 100F day, max EGT post turbo GM-8 950 post turbo 12-13 max boost (self limiting) can go 17 psi if need be, IMO too much stress 17 psi with factory CR

Tim. Do you pull that load alot? No offence ment but that looks totally unsafe for a pick up. I have hauled a backhoe around using a dump truck and it still pushed me around.

[Turbine Doc]

Tim. Do you pull that load alot? No offence ment but that looks totally unsafe for a pick up. I have hauled a backhoe around using a dump truck and it still pushed me around.

None taken,

No only a couple of times a year mostly it stays at my buddys house and we use it at his place or I get somebody to move it with a bigger truck, if I can't get a bigger truck max I've moved it is to my hunting camp 150 miles away, were I hauling it full time or farther I'd have a truck for that purpose, (actually I'm looking now for a small dump truck to pull it) as for the truck I've overbuilt every which way I can.

Although I still have the K1500 frame & axles, which does giveme some pause, but power wise & stopping ability I've got more than a 3500 does with upgrades I've done, I run escorted when moving it to try to manage the risk, stay mostly to the side roads where I can keep speed down, if I have to go interstate it's slow in slow lane only, trailer/trailer brakes is/are rated for 9 tons backhoe is just under 6. That particular day that I took the pic I was at my brother in laws house scooping up some debris & junk vehicles Katrina pushed up into his yard, during those 1st hectic months following Katrina you used what you had.

What pushed me over the top to make the K1500 capable of moving the backhoe short trips was the extra fees $200 each way to have it picked up & delivered to a repair shop to do repairs I was capable of but too far away for me to do the work, or if I needed to move it away from my low country camp on the river to nearby high country, it has been completely submerged once, so I don't leave it at my camp if I think there is slightest risk of river getting up & flooding, and you can't always find somebody or an available truck to go after it, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do and try & make best of it.