What have you towed lately

[L31MaxExpress]

Made it home. The burb ran great. Even thru Chicago traffic with the AC on the Trans temp never broke 185deg. Gas mileage not too bad for 68 mph average.

I did hear the fan kick on quite a few times while at highway speed. Is that normal?

Otherwise I’m quite happy with the ol’ girl.

The fan operates when it needs to and provides a lot more cooling even at highway speed. When the thermal bimetallic element on the clutch rises in temperature it engages the clutch to speed up the fan. This is and always has been my issue with electric fans in Texas heat with towing. The electric fans cannot move nearly the CFM the clutch fan can at 2,000+ engine rpm. When I am at 2,850 rpm towing 75 mph in 3rd gear my clutch fan screams when full engagement is called for. The coolant temps will drop 10-20F in 30 seconds and the a/c system will blow so cold due to the added airflow over the condenser that it causes the ac clutch to cycle regardless of the blower speeds. I tried both leaving the electric fans off and running them on high speed in the same conditions and even my 350 despite the dual core big block radiator would run as hot as 240F requiring me to slow down and drop a gear or pull over and idle to cool it back down. I will add that my mechanical engineer uncle had similar issues with the stock E-fans on their 2010 Tahoe. He despised the EFans on it coming from prior GM products with a clutch fan that worked well. I pitched the idea of a clutch fan from a 2500 truck and he had the parts the next weekend. We ended up pulling the E-fans off and put a clutch fan and shroud from a 6.0L 2500HD truck on it. Both his engine and transmission ran much cooler pulling his 31' travel trailer with it. The ac in the Tahoe also performed better than it ever had at anything but low idle. He utilized the stock Efan wiring to add a pair of GMT400 style ac condenser pusher fans also my idea to help the idle ac cooling. Resulted in an extremely capable cooling system to cope with towing in Texas and New Mexico heat. He now has a 2500HD with a 6.6L gas to tow the same trailer. He is not a diesel fan either. He also had a 1500 4x4 with the L86 6.2 for a while. My cousin drove the Tahoe all the way through her engineering college classes and it recently had to get a new engine at 140K due to DOD lifters being wipped. I tried to talk him into one of the last new L96 6.0Ls that Summit had from GM in that Tahoe but it sadly ended up with a GM reman DOD 5.3L (LC9 IIRC). The new 6.0L was cheaper than the reman 5.3L at the time by nearly $1,000 and the 6.0L had a new intake manifold, new injectors, new fuel rail, and new water pump on it as it was the last of the production dressed Express van engines being sold off.

 

[Supercharged111]

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With the new rear wheel cylinders this thing really stops. Also doesn't hurt that this car as is consumes less than half the trailer's available payload so its brakes have plenty left to give as well. The wife drove and was comfortable with it, so next time out it'll have a snowmobile in the back, a cherry picker and axle in front of the car, and a 5.3 in the trunk. Trailer is still nose up.

 

[Supercharged111]

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With the new rear wheel cylinders this thing really stops. Also doesn't hurt that this car as is consumes less than half the trailer's available payload so its brakes have plenty left to give as well. The wife drove and was comfortable with it, so next time out it'll have a snowmobile in the back, a cherry picker and axle in front of the car, and a 5.3 in the trunk. Trailer is still nose up.

Well, the day has arrived.

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I need to try and get a better shot tomorrow. Or not. It's a circus for sure.

 

[Sean Buick 76]

I’m a big L-96 fan!

 

[JS45]

Well, the day has arrived.

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I need to try and get a better shot tomorrow. Or not. It's a circus for sure.

What a rig. Man we def need more pictures all around! Both of them! Hell all 4 of them in the picture!

 

[Supercharged111]

Here's a shot from later that morning.

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And my parting gift to the state of CO.

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That moving truck was 38,000 all in, it was a turd! Loaded it a wee bit heavy on the right side as you can see.

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Drove for 2 days, stayed at a friend's house for a day, got in yesterday, finished unloading the truck today. Man we have a lot of ****! Got the plow unloaded too with a chain and a willing tree.

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Snapped both tailgate cables while I was at it. Now to finish unpacking, fun.

 

[smdk2500]

Man we have a lot of ****!

Its amazing how you find out how much you have when you put it all in boxes and something smaller then your house. I went through a move beginning of this year and found I had a lot of stuff I didn't need. I'm still looking at stuff thinking do I really need this.

 

[BNielsen]

Hauled home more free lumber from work. Some of it's not in the best of shape but there's still plenty of it that's good enough for my projects. Need to get it broken down and stored up while it's still nice out.

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[smdk2500]

Took the 96 firebird I got in trade with my 99 to auction. Biggest load I've had to pull with my 95. Hopefully I'll get enough out of the car to fund the front end rebuild on my 99 and have some extra left over.

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[Supercharged111]

Took the 96 firebird I got in trade with my 99 to auction. Biggest load I've had to pull with my 95. Hopefully I'll get enough out of the car to fund the front end rebuild on my 99 and have some extra left over.

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Or keep it as a fun car unless it's a V6 turd.