3.5 Ecoboost Towing 12000

Second generation 3.5 ecoboost max tow pulling 11900 lbs .

In my videos I compare the 3.5 EcoBoost to the 2.7 liter EcoBoost. both engines have their advantages and are great in different ways. comment below! thanks for watching!

[iammekanic]

Finally good, informative, heavy towing video!!! Much appreciated my man!!

[trahan]

I been sitting here for the last 5 mins thinking to my self .. "Man, these streets look real familiar..." then I see your coming up over the bridge over by Selfridge and it all it me.. Now I know why everything looks familiar :)

[maksimshinkarev]

Nice truck set up))))
I have 18 3.5 rear end 3.31. Time to time guys loading me with over 4 yards too) The heavies one I had it was with the gravel and my GVWR went up - 20106lb. Couple time I had to stop on the light right before steep hills)) o man, after truck start pulling you can feel how front driver side going in to the air a bit with every gear shifting.
Average daily tow loaded mpg around 14. Right now I went over 40 000mi on the truck - no issues.
Transmission hit 10th if you going 75ml +.
Only think I would fix - at the video 1.40 min you could see - Idk if those guys put to much weight at the back or its your set up like that - but trailer frame should be level with the ground, its not safe driving like that on a high speed.

[dang]

5:30 anyone else thought "man move over from the left lane and let this guy pass"

[davidhoover]

Hey man! Thanks for the video. I have a 2016 F150 and it has an option called braking effort in the towing menu. It came stock on low. I like the truck to intervene more with downshifting and trailer braking. So, I have the setting set to high braking effort. It down shifts even during softer braking and it feels really nice.

[Lorrieboi]

I hauled 6 yards of crushed concrete in my ‘22 when my 250 was getting some warranty love. It kicked ass, all I have is upgraded brakes

[JohnDiMartino]

I told you it would be okay 👌, you don’t need a WD hitch for dump trailer. Amazing the pulling power the 3.5 has isn’t it! Pulls like a diesel.

[austinrush]

This summer I bought a 21, 000lb gvwr dump trailer; trailer weight of 4, 500 lbs. Put 5.5 tons of rock in it on my 2018 3.5 F150 and that almost jackknifed me as I was pulling on the scale. Other than my heaviest load ever of that, I was hauling 3.5-4 tons everytime in my dump trailer with my truck for a total of ~12, 000 lbs of trailer weight and it pulled just fine, but did not brake well. It pulled the 16, 000 lbs fine but definitely couldn’t handle the weight behind it when braking. Gonna buy me a 7.3 and actually be able to haul 6 tons in my dump every time.

[tlalexander]

That's very impressive. My tuned 2010 5.4 doesn't pull near that well even with my 21 foot bass boat. But I do have 3:55 gears with the 6 speed auto and a little larger than stock tire size.

[mikeyvillareal]

Man that's awesome thank you for this video, I'm about to buy a 2012 3.5 and I was worried about tow capacity myself, I have a offroad truck that needs to get towed and I wanted to make sure the truck would do it and it looks like it was a breeze with that 3.5 i originally was going to go with the 5.0 but looks like the 3.5 is fully capable

[timschultes]

Sean I got my new 2020 F-150! Love it dude!!

[MattN]

Great video! I'd really like to see the 2.7 & Superduty tow this load and hear how they compare.

[wcraft]

Would like to know what the tongue weight was - assuming it was light (as it did appear to be) then that's probably why you're rear wheels broke lose during city acceleration.

[aaronengen]

I would like to see at least a little bit of the 2.7 pulling that wait! Going to get a truck and don’t know what motor I should get!

[RangerExperience]

Did you change out the hitch? The hitch that comes with the truck Max's out at 5000 lbs.

[quinton]

That would be badass trying to pull it with the 2.7 would love to see that fords numbers seem lower power wise for it! Do you have airbags or any other aftermarket spring add ons in the rear suspension? sag doesn’t seem that bad at all

[paulrodrigues]

It's nice that on a dump trailer you can put the weight somewhat where you want. I tow a travel trailer so the weight is where it is. No moving that around.

[kevinmcquitery]

Pulls better than my 07.5 2500HD with the 6.0 vortec with 3:77 gears!

[nhguged]

If I'm not mistaken, you're only supposed to tow up to 5, 000 lbs on the bumper. In order to tow more than that, you need a WD hitch.

[brandonmacon]

I really wish ford would've kept these air vents. Minor detail but these were the best looking vents ford ever put out.