Another disappointment in this 7.3
 

so i overall like this truck for the ride,comfort and suspension, but towing with it sucks. I need ideas on what to do to make it pull a little better please. i put a 4" tb exhaust on it and a napa filter but as far as towing its damn gutless compared to my cummins. Yesterday i was towing my 16' enclosed spray trailer which maybe weighs a total of 7,000 and the damn truck struggled to keep it at 70 mph????? I had to have it out of od because it wouldnt hold od on flat roads??? and my rpms were at a constant 2700-2900 which i think is ungodly high. Any other truck ive driven even my 1/2 ton hemi could pull it easier and my mileage was 8.5mpg. So what else could i do??? The truck doesnt smoke one bit and runs awesome empty but is this just how these 7.3 are or what. any help is appreciated cause im starting to think maybe i should sell it and go back to dodge already and its only been about a month. thanks in advance

I think you have another problem. I dont tow much but when I have mine tows like a champ. What are your egts and boost when towing?

I love my 7.3s but you could do a cummins swap and have the best towing truck around.

egts are normal highest i have seen is 1100 and boost im not sure but it spools up fine and sounds normal. I even jumped into a buddys 7.3 and it was the same way it just feels gutless to me

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maybe im just so used to the torque of my other cummins that its normal for these trucks to tow like this

maybe do a few upgrades. maybe a tow tune as well

I would go for a chip then. You are comparing your 7.3 to a vehicle that was 7 years newer. Compare it to a 99 24v and well, I dont know about any of your friends with 24v cummins, but I have 4 friends with them and they got no balls. They are just loud and sound like they are spitting the crank out

yeah im prolly gonna go with the ts 6 position chip. And i will beg to differ with ur previous statement because my dad had a 99 cummins and it would wipe the floor with this truck and after he put his edge on it and a couple other mods my 05, and 06 cummins wouldnt have touched it

Hmm not sure then. All my buddies are terds. They have quadzillas and fuel systems. No trannies yet. Maybe thats their last piece to fix

the edge made a huge difference and then he put in a raptor pump and a goerend tranny it was a sweet truck but unfortunatly it got totaled out. Oh well but i am ordering my ts 6 position chip tomorrow:tu: hopefully it helps

Get a chip for it, like said above, you're comparing a 7.3 to a CR and that is a tough way to look at it.