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[Tayook]

We bought the 1987 SunLINE, but are having serious doubts about our F150 hauling it.

Not sure what was going on with me for the last post, but the our truck is a short bed and the camper is for an 8 ft bed. Guy we are getting it from hauls it on his Ram 2500 with a short bed, tailgate down, but he said it is extremely heavy. He said he could feel it pretty good using his 2500, which makes us worry about our F150 even more.

We have been looking at getting a F250 for a while now and this is cementing the idea. Having trouble finding a good deal on a diesel, which is what we perfer. Should we settle for a gas? What are your experiences with them? Did you opt of diesel or gas and why?

Thanks in advance!

ps - We need a cable to connect the camper lights to the truck wiring system. Anyone have a name for what we are looking for? Also, is there any type of adapter that would allow two sets of wiring to be connect to the truck. One for the camper and one for our bass boat trailer?

[aqualung]

Wiring Harness:

Torklift makes the wiring harness you need:
http://www.torklift.com/p.php?w_page=wiring_harnesses

You can make up your own harness, its not really all that hard. Buy the plug and two sockets plus the 7 conductor trailer wire. Your local RV dealership should be able to help you out with this stuff. As for hooking it up, white goes to white, black to black, blue to blue, red to red, green to green etc etc etc... you get the picture... its all color coded. The white and black wires are a heavier gauage since they're the 12V battery power plus the ground, then the blue is the next heaviest gauge since its the trailer brake wire. The rest are for lights and auxiliary stuff so they aren't that heavy a gauge.

As for the truck, diesel is the way to go. Once you get all that weight on the truck, the low end torque of a diesel can't be beat. I would suggest a dually truck if you can swing it. the weights of a camper and trailer really add up and the extra load capacity and stabilty of a dually really help out.

I opted for a diesel dually for the reasons stated above. I decided on a Cummins diesel which pushed me at a Dodge truck. I do like the Ford F-350 but not the International built PowerStroke. The new Ford built PowerStroke sounds like a much more reliable engine but the jury is still out. As for the Duramax, I have too many frustrated friends with injector problems on thier Duramaxs, not to say that the newer ones aren't better but......

Hope this helps.