Truck for towing question

dogwalkin

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My dad has a 1999 international 4700 lo profile
truck. They used it to pull a 40' 4 horse aluminum
horse trailer. They kept the trailer on a
permanent site lately and have just used a one ton
dodge to pull a stock trailer back and forth to
where there big trailer is. Anyway his old one ton
was a 99 model. Well its pretty well about layed
down with transmission problems and soon to be
third injector pump. Anyway with these newer
dodges like the '07 with the exhaust brakes and
four wheel disc brakes. How well do these do
stopping bigger trailers. That has always been his
problem his '99 would pull it but had trouble
stopping it. So if he sells the international and
gets a '07 four wheel drive would it do what the
international does. Anyway I dont have the trailer
weight right now I will try to get it. But the
thing they are trying to do is go from 2 truck to
one. Thanks in advance.
 
I have an 07 1ton with 6.7,I think with good brakes on the trailer you shouldn't have any problems.I have been pulling a 24 -8 stock with no brakes 6 speed and exhaust brake shut it down pretty fast.
 
if it were me, i would keep the ih 4700 for trailer duty and just get a nuce pickup for everything else, the 1 tos will work fine but you still have to have trailer brakes in ecelent working order to stop the whole rig , up to you , but if i had a 40 foot trailer to haul that ih would get 1st pick
 
You are comparing apples to oranges comparing the 4700 to a one ton as far as towing goes. You might get better opinions if you gave more details on the trailer. GVW, type of brakes etccccc....
 
With the addition of the exhaust brake, the Dodge will probably have MORE braking power than the 4700. There's a lot of power in the Dodge brakes without the exhaust brake...
Long as you have good trailer brakes you'll be fine.
I would suggest that you look for a 5.9 instead of a 6.7 tho... There's a lot less crap (emissions) on the 5.9 which should generally make it more reliable.

Rod
 
The truck shouldn't be stopping the trailer- that's what trailer brakes are for. The trailer brakes should be set to stop the weight of the trailer.
 
To my knowledge, any horse trailer that size would come with electric brakes as standard equipment.

Did you have an electric brake control box installed in the truck? If not, then the electric brakes on the trailer wouldn't work. If the brakes on the trailer aren't working, then stopping can be difficult. The electric brake control box costs about $150.00 installed. Its worth every penny.

We have electric brakes on all of our trailers, even the little 16 ft flatbed. They make a huge difference.

If your trailer has brakes and your tow vehicle has been set up and wired with the brake control box, then stopping does not depend on the size and/or stopping ability of the tow vehicle.
 

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