MPG with 5.0 AWD towing?

[bryanhbre]

what's the mpg range for towing with a 5.0 AWD explorer? (mine's a 01 mounty). Just wanted to get an idea of what everyone got, i'll be pulling a 2500 pound boat, maybe 2 people & some gear. Would guess with people, boat, & gear around 3500 pounds.

 

[Spdrcer34]

You didn't say if this was Highway, or In-town/Side road travel...


Either way, I'm going to say be glad if you hit 11. But expect 8 to 10.

Ryan

 

[bryanhbre]

i would say it'll be 85% highway, 15% city. probably anywhere from 50-65 MPH on the highway and of course who knows about city driving.

 

[Tom G]

Mine's 2WD, I get 12.2 pulling a 17' boat along with all of our vacation stuff.

 

[CDW6212R]

I got close to 11mpg with my last two pulls, a 4500+ pound load of sod, and pulling my 99 Explorer on a trailer. It isn't good, so concentrate on the trans, don't push the throttle too much. Don't try to speed up as normal, heavy loads make a lot of heat in the trans. Regards,

 

[410Fortune]

well lets see when I towed my 19' bayliner with my 96 5.0L explorer AWD my fuel mileage was CRAPPY/ Mile

at 65-75 mph, flat highway, tires pumped up, 400 mile trip, I would say I got about 8 mph maybe 10
However we also have a 97 AWD 4.0L OHV, we use this truck to tow the jet skis (2 1200 cc Kawasaki 2 seaters) and that truck gets the exact SAME believe it or not, we always had to fill up at the same time!

Now my 96 has a cam, headers, and 33" tires LOL, but I have 3.73 gears with 33" tires, so my highway mileage was decent! 2200 rpm at 70 mph with boat (once you get moving! LOL)

Anyways my point to all this because I actually have no idea how many mpg I got towing, is since I ditched AWD and went to a selectable transfer case I get 1.5 the MPG on the highway towing, same truck, same tires, same boat, same trip

so I weould say 12 or so MPG would be my GUESS without actually keeping track.

this summer I will be making that trip alot, so I will keep track so we can see for sure what to expect froma truck like mine