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Forgot to mention the legendary Cummins. Buddy had one with exhaust and chipped, thing got 22-24 empty and 18 mpg pulling a 19 ft boat all the way out to the Columbia..nuts! My V10 always gets 14-16 empty. 10 mpg pulling the 620. And I didn't even want to know pulling the 30ft 5th wheel into the wind! Ha ha mine has a set of Borla headers, k&n cold air intake and a banks shift kit.

Mine and my brothers V10s, the things are bullet proof.
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Honestly, if a crew cab is not a necessity, I'd be looking for an older dodge 3/4 or 1 town with a 5.9 cummins. They pull very well and are very reliable. In all reality though, if all your doing it pulling a camper OR a boat and not both at the same time, any v10 or diesel truck (except a non bulletproofed 6.0 or the horrendous 6.4 (both from ford)) will do. I had an 02 ford f250 with the v10 in it and it was a great truck... absolutely SHITTY fuel mileage, weather pulling or empty didn't matter, it sucked, but it pulled just fine.

Yeah but then you could only drive it in one town !
 

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$15k was mentioned in the first post. FYI. Although they might be out of the price range, the ford 6.4 diesels can be a bargain. They were and still are the strongest stock diesel in a pick-up made. They were horrendous on fuel mileage and needed a only a few things to be bullet proof. Basically they needed a coolant filter, egr & dpf delete, and a good tune. The only other real weak spot was they had a bad run of radiators with poor cimps that had a tendancy to leak and the best solution was a new radiator. If you do the first three things, they were really stout and very good engines. The real probelm was they were the first generation of the DPF system which was the root of most of the issues. They were know to hold 600-800 hp in stock configuration rather well! the key to any of these, finding one that's low mileage and hasn't been abused so you have a good platform to begin with.

FYI, there's nothing wrong with the old Vortec 8.1's either, they were thirstier and some had a tendency to burn a little oil, but they were a stout puller and reliable. If I was looking at 2011 and newer rigs, I'd probably lean to a 6.2L ford. Every towing test puts that at the top of the current gen of gas engines in 3/4 ton trucks (up untill this year). The 6.4 Hemi makes more power but cann't get it to the ground due to transmission gearing and the GM 6.0, although reliable, has never been a power house and has pulled the rear spot in comparisons for more than a decade.
 

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