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First trip of the summer to northern Michigan

 

This Casita came up for sale close to home and I jumped on it. Original owners have had it since 2000. First trip upstate NY. Tacoma handles it like a breeze.

 

love me them Casitas, but with my wife and I being + sized, we ended up upgrading to an Escape 21.

 

We just bought a 2018 Jayco Jay Flight 212QBW - 25 feet long and 5,000 pounds loaded. This is the third camping trailer we have pulled with our 2012 V6 Tacoma - the others were 3,000 and 3,500 pounds. It has the tow package and tow capacity of 6,400 pounds. We have a Prodigy Brake Controller and weight distributing hitch. So far all has been well. It doesn't race up the hills, but I can get over Vail Pass at 55 mph and 3,500-4,500 rmps in third or fourth gear. I typically downshift to 2nd gear down hills. We have been pulling our trailers all over the Colorado Rockies for 6 years with this truck, as well as long trips to the Great Lakes, across the south to New Orleans, and out to California and Utah. I try to keep our max weight at < 80% of the tow capacity to account for the altitude and hill climbs in Colorado. I get between 9-12 mpg when towing.

I'll be getting a new truck in the next few years as this one has 130,000 on it. I might try to push this one on a big trip out to Alaska next summer, as it still runs great. I have spent a significant amount of time comparing between Tacoma, Tundra, and F-150. I will probably go with another Tacoma because we don't plan to get a trailer larger than this, and I'd rather have a smaller truck that gets lousy towing gas mileage on the 60 days a year I tow with it, than a full sized truck that gets lower gas mileage the other 300 days a year that I don't. The only repairs that have been needed was new u-joints and brakes. I know of no other truck that is this size, this price, and pulls the amount of weight that this does.

 

Nice. I have a similar 2018 StarCraft BH camper that I just picked up. My first long distance trip is coming the end of July (Bar Harbor, Maine, 600 mile 1 way).

 

This is encouraging as in July I plan to take a 1200 mile one way trip from WA to Phoenix towing a smaller moving trailer (moving daughter). But if price is right we may pick up a TT to take back.

 

Picked this up today! 2008 Crownline 200 LS. I'm very happy with how the truck pulled it a short distance. I'm not sure how heavy it is exactly, but I'd guess anywhere between 4,000 and 4,500 lbs with the trailer. My beefed up rear leaves definitely helped keep everything level.

I'm running 6112s up front on the first notch for minimal lift and the rear is a 2016 leaf pack with a 3-leaf AAL from Wheeler's. Truck normally sits pretty tail-high but looks perfectly level with the boat attached.

 

Probably around 4000 is accurate. Spec on the boat is 3400-3600, and trailers usually run a couple hundred.

Edit- Of course, a full tank of fuel is an extra 200lbs. Then toss a cooler full of beer and a bunch of fishing gear into the mix and you're probably close to 4500

 

Looks like air bags or a beefed up leaf pack would serve you well, will all that sag in the rear

 

Do you monitor your tranny temps and do you have an additional cooler? I towed that same trailer a few weeks back about 200 miles round trip with 3 mountain passes all 5-7% grades and my temps were reaching 230 as I would get to the top of the passes and it was 55 and raining out. I am adding an additional cooler this weekend because summer temps in southern Oregon are regularly above 100 degrees.

*Also, get sumosprings I love them and make it so limited bounce and no sag with WD hitch.

 

Couldn't help but laugh when I saw this on imgur

 

no lights, no safety chains, I bet thats strictly used for low speed towing around the harbor.

 

I have been camping in Bar harbor many times, it is a great place...

 

I installed the B&M Supercooler in my PreRunner. I'm getting the Scanguard before I head to Bar Harbor, don't want to replace a trans, I hear it is about 6 grand to do so.

 

Not a picture of what I tow but what I’m installing to help tow. Added on top of stock cooler that comes with tow package.

 

Nice !

 

Did the same thing for mine, should help with wheeling too. I hit the tranny temp light multiple times last fall in Moab. 4 tire fires up almost every obstacle for a day straight does wonders to your tranny temps

 

Yeah I have a trip next weekend towing my trailer so we’ll see how it does. Will be hard to tell if it does any good around town since my commute is 2 miles and it’ll be in the 70’s/80’s for a few weeks

 

Nice!

We just picked up a MAX, too!