Best Vehicle to Buy to Pull a Small Bass Boat...

[Stonewall2002]

It was an 1999 Automatic Ford Ranger. I loved the truck but it just didnt have the giddy-ap and go I needed. Pulled my boat twice. Once from the guy I bought it from in New Albany to my home in Valley Station, and once to Taylorsville lake and back. One morning I went out to go to work and the truck wouldnt go into second, just stayed in first. Traded it in as-is to the dralership for the Trailblazer, they even came to my house to tow it away. Other than tires and brakes the Trailblazer has been great.

Keep on chuckin'

[Moose1am]

OK thanks. I was thinking it was probably an automatic transmission. I have a manual transmission which I think has less to go wrong with, except when my wife and daughter tried to learn to drive a standard shift. LOL You could hear the gears grinding for miles away. :(.

We had a 1990 Dodge Grand Caravan that had an automatic transmission. It had the Dodge Towing Package which included an larger transmission and transmission cooler and oil cooler etc. The literature said all the stuff was beefed up to help haul stuff.

One our first long trip pulling a Williamsburg Coleman Popup Camper though the Smokey Mountain Area the engine would only allow us to go about 40 mph up the steep grades. I could floor the accelerator and the engine would not allow us to go any faster. We got back home and took the Caravan to the dealer and he said that this was a feature that protected the Transmission in case something went wrong with the transmission. It took us forever to get though the mountains of Eastern TN and to Pigeon Forge, TN. The dealer made some changes to the transmission after we took it in and that fixed the problem. The next trip to the mountains the Caravan shot right up the mountain grades pulling our camper. Not sure exactly what they did but it happened to a lot of those Caravan transmission. That vehicle is suspect is still running.

Regards,

Moose1am