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Update on the truck:
Moved back in June, loaded all our stuff into the fifth wheel (it was completely packed) and drove from El Paso to Idaho. My dad flew down to drive the truck, as he has much more experience towing. He said the truck did great, the best towing gas truck he'd driven. It did 70-75MPH quite well, except for the steep hills. Even at those speeds, it didn't do terrible on gas. I reset the dash MPG gauge a couple hundred miles in and it showed 8.5MPG over the rest of the trip (at 13-14MPG, it's about .5MPG optimistic, not sure how it translates for lower MPGs). Weighed the whole setup and it was a bit over 16k lbs, just about at the GCWR, so the performance was great considering that.
Now to the current state of the truck... I sold it a couple weeks ago. Didn't need it anymore and it was just making my insurance cost more. I miss its roar, but I like being done putting money in it.
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