Hill Climbing
Just want to run this by some of you, at the present time when I climb a (Hill or Mountain) I let the Allison do the changing or down shift as needed, if it don't down shift at 1400 RPM I will down sh...
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Lots of interesting replies. I find it interesting that no one mentioned EGT temps when climbing hills. You can have dangersly high EGT temps long before your water temp goes up. I think every diesel coach should have at least a Boost, EGT and transmission oil temp gages. I will watch and if EGT temps start to get high I will manually down shift. The hill that got my water temp up was not the big climes but a gentle grade that couldn’t have been more than 2-3 degrees. The problem when I caught it was I was running cruise but the hill wasn’t enough to make the transmission down shift. So the computer had the boost maxed out to maintain speed. The problem it was about a 20 mile climb. You didn’t feel like you were on a hill till you looked behind you.
Bill
Bill
