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| Wondering what vehicle you use to tow your Crestliner 1850 Muskie Edition Fish Hawk with? I am currently towing mine with a 2004 GMC Envoy XL without the tow package. The Crestliner has a Mercury 125HP 2-stroke and a 9.9 Mercury kicker with the usual bells and whistles. The trailer is an Eagle with surge brakes. I'm worried that it may be too much for the vehicle and I'm considering another vehicle. |
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| 2000 Toyota Tundra.
However, we used to tow it with a Mazda Tribute V6 and it handled it just fine. In fact, it got about the same gas mileage as our Tundra does now.
I think your Envoy XL will do the job and then some. I'm not experienced with the Envoys but just from looking at them on the road they appear to be much larger than our Tribute which handled towing our 1850 Muskie Edition w/ surge breaks really well.
Hope this helps! |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | worth reviewing:
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=32... |
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| Check your vehicles towing capacity and what it's rated for. Even if it came from the factory without a tow package, the vehicle will still be rated for towing capacity.
I tow our Crestliner 1750 with a 90 hp two-stroke motor with our '02 Chevy Trailblazer (same thing as the Envoy) with no problems. I've even had five adults, the back end of the Trailblazer loaded to the gills with coolers, beverages, ice, groceries, luggage as I pulled the boat on vacation a few weeks back...no problems. Still got around 15 mpg. Stopping on a dime would have been trouble....but you can't expect to do that with a boat behind you and that much weight in the vehicle. Have to plan your stopping distances. Don't tailgate.
You should be fine as long as you don't overload your boat and put too much weight back there and end up pushing your Envoy.
I've seen people pull the 1850s with a little S10 Blazer, which is far smaller than your Envoy. Just gotta be smart.
If your Envoy didn't come from the factory with the tow package....what type of hitch system did you have mounted to your car? Hopefully one that's welded on and not bolted on? Hopefully one rated to the capacity that your 1850 needs. One that can handle the tongue weight that your 1850 presents?
Even though your Envoy didn't come from the factory with the tow package...I'd guess it's still a four-wheel disc brake vehicle? I'd guess with the Envoy, there probably wasn't even an model of that year that would come with rear drum brakes?
Edited by MACK 8/13/2007 1:06 PM
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| I think your Envoy Has 275 HP She will pull no Problem. Stopping with it might be a little problem but you have surge brakes that help you out. The only problem is your hitch heavy enough and also you might want to bring her into the shop and have a tranny cooler installed unless you want to do ot yourself..... I have a Highlander 3.3 liter and pulls my fishawk 1650 around no problem. But I don't pull in overdrive and It has a Tranny cooler...Your manaul should say how much you can tow and I would guess you are around 2600 Pds with Trailer and Gas Oil Gear.... |
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