Route Advice. 75 or 24 and 65
I am in need of Help. my concern is steep UP hills... Atlanta Georgia to Cleveland Ohio... route 75 to 71 or route 24 to 65 to 71. what route has less hills to go up.? (less Steep) ...
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Chuck_thehammer wrote:
I have a 04 Ram 1500 V6.. 3.7 with a 5 speed manual transmission...
Clutch is the most likely weak link. Once you get rolling I think you will be all right. I doubt you will be able to use 5'th gear at all. Find a speed that you can run in 4'th that has decent RPM. I think that the steep hills will take 3'rd, and I would shift into 3'rd early enough that you get 3,500+ RPM. If you can hold that RPM good, climb the hill at that speed. If not drop to 2'nd and repeat. But I think that you should be able to pull the 6% grades with 3'rd. Watch out for real slow trucks, (heavy haul and oversize) the one that are doing 5-10 MPH. You don't want to stall out, and they have lower gears than you do.
