CONTENTS Ford Products Available for All Pickups/Chassis Cabs/Super Crewzer™ . 3-4 Slide-In Campers . 5 Major RV Categories Sport Utility Vehicles . 6-7 Ford – a Leader in RV Class A Motorhome Chassis . 8 Class C Motorhome Chassis . 9 and Trailer Towing! “Four-Wheel-Down” Towing. 10 There are many reasons Ford is considered a Van Conversions/Class B Van Campers . 11 leader in RV and trailer towing: Things to Know Before You Tow . 12-15 • Outstanding Selection Whatever your need, there’s a Ford vehicle Trailer Classes and RV Trailer Types . 16 or chassis to fill it. Maximum Trailer Weights and Towing Packages. 17 • Exceptional Towing Capabilities Required/Recommended Trailer Towing The F-Series Super Duty pickups and Equipment and Frontal Area Considerations. 18 chassis cabs can pull heavy trailers. In fact, Trailer Towing Selector when properly equipped, they can handle • F-250/350 Super Duty Pickups . 19 conventional trailers up to 13,900 pounds*, • F-350-550 Super Duty Chassis Cabs, and fifth-wheel trailers all the way up to Class A Motorhome Chassis, F-650/750 Super Duty . 20 21,500 pounds. • F-150 Pickup and Ranger. 21 • Experience Many years of RV and towing experience • Escape, Explorer 4-Door, Explorer Sport, back all Ford vehicles. Sport Trac, Expedition, Excursion and Windstar . 22 • Quality and Reliability • E-Series and Ford Cars . 23 Ford has earned a reputation for providing Trailering Tips . 24 quality and reliable RV products. PICKUPS/CHASSIS CABS CLASS A MOTORHOMES CLASS C MOTORHOMES Ford offers a complete lineup of tough Self-contained RV camping/travel Built on a cutaway chassis – includes pickups and chassis cabs for a full vehicles with a living unit van cab section. Ford chassis entries are range of RV and towing jobs. F-Series constructed on a specially designed E-350 Super Duty, E-450 Super Duty Super Duty Pickups can handle vehicle chassis. Ford offers F-Series Cutaway Chassis, E-550 Super Duty conventional trailers up to 13,900 Super Duty Class A Motorhome Cutaway Chassis, and the new E-350- lbs.* and fifth-wheel trailers up to Chassis. 550 Super Duty Chassis Cabs with 14,200 lbs., and Super Duty Chassis wheelbase choices all the way up to Cabs can tow as much as 21,500 lbs. 233.5 inches to handle the largest units. VAN CONVERSIONS/VAN CAMPERS SLIDE-IN TRUCK CAMPERS TRAILERS Van converters use a full-size van Designed for carrying in a pickup A wide range of trailer types are in chassis to create travel/camping units truck bed, these units can be easily RV use: folding campers, conventional with special equipment and comfort removed to use the truck for other travel trailers, boat/ATV/snowmobile features. Ford offers E-Series Van. purposes. Ford F-Series pickups haulers, and fifth-wheel travel units – are ideal for slide-in camper use. in a broad range of sizes, floor plans and furnishing levels. 2 *Effective with Fall 2002 production. M Metric Conversion – To obtain information in kilograms, multiply pounds by .45. Ford Pickups – A Complete Lineup to Meet ALL Your Recreational Vehicle and Towing Needs F-250/350 SUPER DUTY PICKUPS . SUPER DUTY For Your Serious Towing Needs! All these Few vehicles have impacted the trailer Powerful Engines outstanding towing industry like Ford F-Series • Triton™ 5.4L V8 (260 hp/350 lb-ft Super Duty Pickups. With their wide torque) features make selection of models, powertrains, • Triton™ 6.8L V10 (310 hp/425 lb-ft features, and huge boost in conventional torque) Ford F-Series towing capacity(1), they are a top choice • 7.3L Power Stroke® Turbo Diesel V8 for the really BIG RV and towing tasks. (275 hp/520 lb-ft with manual Super Duty a transmission; 250 hp/525 lb-ft with “must-have” Capable and Built Ford Tough automatic transmission)(2) F-Series Super Duty offers: • 6.0L Power Stroke® Turbo Diesel V8 for serious • Higher conventional trailer (325 hp/560 lb-ft) offers best-in-class towing…up to 13,900 lbs.(1) torque and Diesel horsepower(2) RV customers. • Fifth-wheel trailer towing up to 14,200 lbs. Safety Features • The most interior room Among their many safety features, Ford F-Series Super Duty Pickups offer Hard-Working Image standard 4-wheel ABS on all models. In A dominant grille opening and large addition, available telescoping trailer cooling capacity help cool the big, tow mirrors provide excellent visibility. powerful engines, which are designed to satisfy one of this truck’s primary (1) Available effective with Fall 2002 production. (2) 6.0L Diesel replaces 7.3L Diesel effective with Fall work uses – trailer towing! 2002 production. F-350-550 SUPER DUTY CHASSIS CABS F-350 Super Duty Pickup AND F-650 SUPER CREWZER™ . Offers Up to For Your “Ultimate” Towing Needs! 13,900-Pound(1) If your towing needs are even bigger than our F-Series Super Duty Pickups can Conventional Trailer Towing handle, check out our F-350-550 Chassis Cabs with hauling upfit (as shown here) Capacity and or even the F-650 Super Crewzer™ (shown on page 20). The Chassis Cabs can pull trailers all the way up to 21,500 pounds, and the Super Crewzer™ offers a 14,200-Pound GVWR of 23,000 pounds and GCWR of 43,000 pounds. See your Ford dealer for Fifth-Wheel Towing Capacity details on these really heavy haulers. (See Chart on Page 19) 3 The Rest of Our HARD-WORKING Pickup Lineup F-150 F-150 SUPERCREW RANGER When Your RV/Towing A Different Kind of Pickup! A Great Choice for Needs Aren’t Quite As Big! On/Off-Road Fun! SuperCrew expands the utility of The Built Ford Tough F-150 the full-size F-150 Pickup by America’s top-selling compact continues to do its part in making adding four full-size doors and pickup for 15 years in a row comfortable seating for six adults – RANGER F-Series Pickups America’s best- continues to offer a whole lot of RV without compromising its “tough • selling vehicle. Their ideal and towing capabilities in a combination of rugged performance truck” image and capabilities. relatively small package. These and passenger comfort make them SuperCrew is one more example of capabilities come from its Built perfect for all but the very biggest how America’s best-selling trucks Ford Tough heritage – and its long RV and towing tasks. Noteworthy keep coming up with better ways to list of outstanding features: features include: get the job done. Its long list of features includes: • Regular and 2-door/4-door • Available SuperCab models with SuperCab models four doors standard • Choice of 4x2 or 4x4 models • Three engine choices – 143-hp • Choice of 5-speed manual or • Same wheelbase as short- 2.3L I4, 154-hp 3.0L V6, or 4-speed automatic overdrive wheelbase SuperCab for 207-hp 4.0L SOHC V6 with transmissions convenient maneuverability and 238 lb-ft of torque • Can be equipped to tow trailers up garageability • 100,000-mile tune-up interval on to 8,800 pounds • Unique 5 1/2-foot pickup box all enginesa/ • Three powerful engine choices: design with steel inner panels and • Choose from 5-speed manual or – 4.2L OHV V6 with 202 hp/ composite outer panels automatic with overdrive 252 lb-ft torque • Optional pickup bed extender for transmissions – 4.6L SOHC V8 with 231 hp/ improved box versatility and • Can be equipped to tow trailers up 293 lb-ft torque convenience to 5,860 poundsb/ • Choice of two powerful single- – 5.4L SOHC V8 with 260 hp/ TM • Four-wheel anti-lock brakes 350 lb-ft torque overhead-cam Triton V8 (ABS), standard • Fail-Safe Cooling System engines: • Power rack-and-pinion steering, F-150 SUPERCREW • 4-wheel disc anti-lock brakes – Standard 231-horsepower 4.6L standard – Optional 260-horsepower 5.4L TM • (ABS) standard on all models • SecuriLock passive anti-theft • Standard SecuriLock™ passive • Fail-Safe Cooling System system, standard anti-theft system • Electronically controlled 4-speed automatic overdrive transmission a/Under normal driving conditions with routine fluid/filter changes. • Standard 4-wheel-disc anti-lock If you need even greater b/5,960 pounds for fleet applications. capabilities, check out the brakes (ABS) • Can be equipped to tow trailers up For More Information F-Series Super Duty models on to 7,900 pounds F-150 the preceding page. • Standard power adjustable on Any of the Ford accelerator and brake pedals Pickups, See the • Optional power glass moonroof Appropriate Brochure at Metric Conversion – To obtain information in kilograms, multiply pounds by .45; Your Ford Dealership. M to obtain information in kilometers, multiply miles by 1.6; to obtain information 4 in centimeters, multiply inches by 2.54. Slide-In Campers for F-Series Pickups For the convenience of a camper, and the functional capabilities of a full-size pickup, a slide-in camper may be ideal for your RV needs. Use the chart below to • Cargo Weight Rating transmission). Cargo Slide-in Camper Installation select the proper F-Series shown in chart is Weight Rating shown • Ford Motor Company Pickup/Camper Combination: maximum allowable, must be further reduced recommends consulting • Combined weight of assuming weight of a by weight of powertrain your camper manufacturer/ vehicle, camper body, base vehicle with upgrades and any other dealer for details regarding occupants and cargo required camper option options. Option weights proper installation of your must not exceed Gross content and a passenger and center-of-gravity slide-in camper. Vehicle Weight Rating (150-lbs. per) at each information are available • A dimensionally stable block (GVWR).