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EquipmentWorld.com | October 2017 63 R am will bump up power for its 2018 Ram 3500, edging past Ford for bragging rights to best-in-class torque. The ramped-up Ram delivers 930 pound-feet of torque, or 5 more pound-feet than the 2017 F-350. The truck can also tow up to 30,000 pounds with its fifth-wheel hitch, which is 2,500 pounds more than a fifth-wheel equipped 2017 F-350. Working closely with Cum- mins, the 2018 diesel improve- ments include higher boost limits through a variable geometry turbo and flow-rate increases through the fuel delivery system enabling the 6.7-liter I-6 to produce an ad- ditional 30 pound-feet of torque. This improvement ranks the Cum- mins engine ahead of the compe- tition with 930 total pound-feet of torque. The 30,000-pound fifth-wheel towing uprating is made possible by an in-house hitch design from Ram Engineering. The upgraded capability allows the Ram 3500 to haul the heaviest travel trailers in the industry. Ram reports that its new hitch will allow customers to move away from Class 4 and 5 trucks to haul trailers that would have otherwise been limited to 24,000 pounds. –Tom Quimby Untitled-5 1 12/10/15 10:21 AM Ram 3500 steals torque crown from Ford, claims best-in-class fifth-wheel towing The Ram 2018 3500 Cummins engine has an add- itional 30 pound- feet of torque.