Advice needed-Western US summer trip
Hello all, We are planning our first big RV road trip and I need some help. We will be leaving from Central Florida in June, and have about 28-30 days total. We have traveled quite a bit in the pas...
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Air bags will help you balance the rig side to side and so on but they don't add one ounce to the carrying capacity, indeed they reduce it by whatever they weigh. I would go easy on a tuner and would be concerned about blowing something up on that engine which will be overstressed on any grade.
The Texas hill country west of San Antonio will provide a taste of a stress test for you. They are nothing compared to something like Hwy 12 in Utah but they killed the transmission on my Suburban, which was slightly older than your vehicle is now. And you can imagine how easy it is to find a mechanic in Ozona on a weekend. Disasters always happen on weekends, right after the repair places closed. Fortunately the local auto parts place recommended some gunk to pour into the transmission and amazingly that got us home and it kept the transmission running for months afterward. I could never find the stuff again in Florida and I've forgotten the name of it now.
The Texas hill country west of San Antonio will provide a taste of a stress test for you. They are nothing compared to something like Hwy 12 in Utah but they killed the transmission on my Suburban, which was slightly older than your vehicle is now. And you can imagine how easy it is to find a mechanic in Ozona on a weekend. Disasters always happen on weekends, right after the repair places closed. Fortunately the local auto parts place recommended some gunk to pour into the transmission and amazingly that got us home and it kept the transmission running for months afterward. I could never find the stuff again in Florida and I've forgotten the name of it now.
