I know this should be more of a trip report than a build blog but it will be actually more of a TSA on towing and car trouble.
Basically on our last trip to Seattle the truck troubles pointed to ethanol in my gas at about 75%. Sounds stupid because my truck is flex fuel. The gas may have come from Oregon or Washington but basically after changing my fuel pump the system red rich on both banks. After full diagnosis I realized my ethanol content and had a friend who has a pro scanner reset my fuel composition and now she is running better than ever.
We spend a lot of winters up in mammoth lakes in California and it's about a 330 mile drive from Los Angeles. I will usually make it up in half a 31 gallon tank on my avalanche and a little less than half on the way back with enough to spare for driving around in LA. So one tank will do plenty for my trip. I should mention that I set cruise at 60 so most likely you guys are honking at me for being a slow driver but with gas prices what they are....well I'm sure most understand.
So with that I was curious with a 2000 lb trailer and heavy off road tires what the comparison would be and there was basically no difference. I'm up here in half a tank and feeling pretty good about it. The drive is about 85% flat and the rest is some 6% grade climbing. Yes of course I stick close to the 55mph trailer law in Cali but mainly because I'm a MPG freak.
Anyway. To those that have questions regarding towing offroad trailers and gas mileage at least for highway purposes if you keep it at or around 60 you really shouldn't notice a difference. Of course off road is a different story. Back in the back country of mammoth its really sandy so on some of our hill climbs with the trailer we got a lot of spinning of tires since I don't have a full off road set up for my avalanche but with 4wd it wasn't too much of a problem. The drive offroad is well worth the seclusion. 4th of July weekend in the town of mammoth was just busy as hell but about 4 miles out of town and there is not a soul to be found
Anyway. Everyone have an awesome 4th of July weekend and be safe out there!
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