Towing 4 x 8 Uhaul Trailer

Towing a 4 x 8 uhaul trailer about 1000 miles. I know about using ECT, but thoughts on staying in D instead of 4 for flat areas ? (4 revs very high)

 

how much total weight will you be pulling (including trailer weight)?

 

A 4x8 trailer is nothing. Just drive it. If you feel it getting weird, then do what you said.

 

Keep it in D and let the TCM take care of the gearing. You will experience a lot of gear searching but I found it to still be better than keeping it in 5th.

 

I'm guessing I'll be putting under 500 lbs inside. Trailer is probably less than 1000 lbs. Then maybe 250 in the bed of truck

 

5x8 v nose. Trailer is 700lbs empty and I had ever inch filled. Towed from CA to NH. 3200 miles. For the most part keep it in d. Hills go to 4th

 

you'll have no issue leaving it in D and ECT on.

 

You’re within the 3500 lbs. let me know how you make out. I am thinking of towing 2500 - 3000.

 

ECT and leave it in sport (4) per the owners manual.

 

Make sure to check the wheels

 

About 1,300lb or so total load using my own 4x8. I barely knew it was back there.

 

Ok thanks, I just didnt want to burn too much gas in 4th

 

Do you have a scanguage or similar to monitor trans temps? I see that you've got a 2020 and mid-model year toyota decided to delete the aux trans cooler, so be mindful of those temps while you're towing so you don't cook your trans fluid

 

I actually just bought a second Taco, a 22 with the 3.5 and it says it has a trans cooler, (which I'm pretty sure I see from the front)

 

Maybe they went back to them. Cuz they definitely pulled then for a few years

 

If they did I feel even more cheated than I did upon initial discovery

 

I believe the “cooler” is now just the one in the radiator. There was an external one separate for he radiator on earlier models. But for reasons unknown. Toyota no longer finds it necessary.

If you have an external, it will look like this

 

S5. you'll not know its there half the time and you'll get great fuel economy. I tow my 5x10 utility trailer thats mostly aluminum with a 500 lb. sled, or lawn tractor that weights less...no problem in S5.

 

It's a little confusing there as they count the trans cooler at the AT and the one in the rad as coolers also. The one that you can see on the left side of the Taco in front of that rad (rectangular, not the tubular PS cooler) is the AT cooler that went away.