Towing mpg!!

Hey guys I'm new to the site, I'm sure this is a topic that has been cover but I'm curious as to y'all's thoughts on towing with our trucks. Don't see many out on the road doing it. I have a ~2500lb trailer that I have towed a few times across the state and noticed that I seem to have the power to pull it just fine, but fuel economy is the real battle for me. Granted I have the 3.4l with the trd supercharger I average about 9-10mpg seeing as the tank isn't the biggest my range kills me I'm stopping all the time for gas it feels. Anyone else on here towing much and what motor is in yours, and what kind of mpg you seeing?? Here is a pic of my latest adventure getting er muddy!!

 

It’s been awhile since I owned my 99’
But when I was hauling lawn equipment with a 6x8 trailer my mpg was not good.
I’m going to say it was low teens.
I was running a 3” lift with 32x11.50 Goodyear MTR Kevlar Tires too.
They were really heavy so that probably didn’t help me much either.

My brother bought the truck from me.
I know he used it to tow a lot more than I did.
Even he noticed the MPG was a lot worse towing.

I going to call it normal.
Keep an eye on the Temps and Tires and call it good.

 

Anytime you change the wind resistance of your truck in any way your fuel mileage is going to suffer.

The amount of weight the type of terrain the speed your driving plus any added headwind or crosswind all takes mileage away .

Since I seldom drive without a payload or towing something I live with my 10 to 12 miles per gallon as normal for me.

 

the gas mileage your are going to get depends on many things but the most important is how hard are you making the motor work. A vacuum gauge mounted so that you can see it when you are driving is going to be your best friend. You will see where a certain speed with a certain throttle position will give a certain mpg but if you push the throttle that 1/16" more the only thing that happens is more noise and a drop in vacuum and mpg.

 

Newer F-150 towing a larger ones. 6-8pmg. So - yours is pretty good Gonna take more go juice to yank around anything unless it's a diesel. Even then - the gas mileage suffers quite a bit. Sometimes when I mountain bike I will train with a weighted scuba vest. Race day - take the vest off and it's like I shed 20 lbs. I get better gas mileage that way

 

I tow our 2018 Jayco 16XRB hybrid with my '03 DC TRD 4x4 Taco. Gas mileage is atrocious. Like you said the size of the tank is the killer. My gas mileage goes from around 20 highway to 10 and I have a 16 gallon tank. You do the math. Pulls fine but on 8hr trips we are constantly stopping for gas.

 

I used to tow my 12’ Casita fiberglass egg camper ( full bath, kitchen ) with my 2.4 w/ 5 speed and consistently get low 20’s mpg sometimes as high as 23 mpg ......My top speed though was 60-65 mph but mostly only did 55-60 mph on flat ground.

 

That sounds about right. I get about 12mpgs towing with my 4L 4Runner (~3500# trailer).

With my 3.4L Taco I once got 18mpgs towing a small popup trailer on a 2k mile trip, but the thing weighed ~800# and I couldn't go faster than 55 with it (it was unstable otherwise). After that I got a ~2000# popup trailer and went all over the western states with it. I never really tracked the MPGs because I already knew it doesn't get "good" mileage anyway even when not towing. I just didn't want to know how bad, lol.

I could still manage about 200 miles between fill-ups though, which is not all that different from my city mileage.

 

My enclosed trailer is about 8 feet tall from top to bottom of the wheels and maybe 14-16 feet long.

Loaded down maybe 3500 pounds was like 9 mpg on the highway.

The height was the killer

 

The biggest I pull with my extra cab 3.4 auto is my 5x10 trailer. Loaded with a utility four wheeler, a dirt bike, a couple 5 gallons gas cans, an rtic 45 full of ice and drinks and food, and some other misc stuff I’d have to guess all in at about 2000-2200 lbs and get about 14 mpg at 78 mph and 82 to pass some people. Running 4.10 gears and 32x10.5 bfg ko2 loaf range e tires. All in all not too bad. That’s about what I get in the city empty. It definitely does drop a gear over even the slightest hill though. The biggest killer as already stated is the small tank size. I’d like to swap a bigger tank in but can’t afford any more taco lean hah

 

I found out two weeks ago after installing front kings all you do is crank up the adjustment on the drivers side to eliminate that lean

 

I guess there’s my excuse to get a new set of kings hahah. I have the 5100’s on there now set to the 2.5 setting so I can’t just easily adjust one a little tighter than the other sadly