Sounds like you are going to be pulling some serious weight with it pulling a livestock trailer. You can get what like 6 to 8 cattle in there? At 1200 each, that's 7200-9600 pounds. Wow, lots of weight.

The '05 Fords have the towing crown right now. You can get up to 19,000lbs available (note, that it's hard to say if you can actually tow that with all things considered) with an F-350 with the Tow Boss package or whatever it's called. But that's ONLY on a std. cab, long bed 4x2, PSD, AT (TorqueShift) and 4.30 rear. Of course you might want to look at moving up to a Class IV or V truck (F-450/550, GMs 4500 & 5500 series). Or other MDT.

Ford has a completely integrated brake controller. I'd say look beyond just the motor under the hood. They are ALL very good. Look at features, price, etc.

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we can run with a lot in the old chevy with the 454 and 4.56 rear end i dont know what the difference is with the vortec 350 in a 3/4 that my brother has cause it doesnt pull that trailor worht a **** but i know but i do know the ole truck will run hills with the best and people cant belive that its got that many miles and no problems

 

the duramax is made by izuzu and the power strokes are made by ford. i am a chevy man but when it comes to diesles you cant beat a dodge cummins. this may have already been posted but i didnt want to read all the posts so sorry if this is a repeat

 

i think if u could put a cummins in a chevy you wouldhave the truck made or a cummins in a ford

 

Powerstroke is made by international (Navistar) not ford........ the old IDI 7.3 was a ford motor. If you put the cummins in a ford you'd have a pretty good truck......... I don't mind the cummins i just don't like the dodge around it. Plus the cummins aint a real fast motor, like the strokker but still solid as a rock.

 

I've owned both the Duramax and for the last year a Cummins. The Cummins will out pull the Duramax. The Cummins is a little slower off the line(auto tranny) but it will hold the speed up hill better in my experience. It's also better than the older Fords IMO, and I don't have any experience with the newer Ford 6.0.

 

I'm a Dodge guy all the way...Why be Strokin when you can be Cummins? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] hehe...

 

sorry my mistake the power stroke is made by international what was i thinking

thanks for correcting me