JumboJet wrote:
Hudsoner wrote:
old guy wrote:
I have a friends who had a gas MH and he had a heck of a time getting over the rockies. he had to disconnect the tow-able and have his wife drive it over. he got a diesel and never looked back
Your friends probably should have done some maintenance to their engine (new spark plugs help one in a while, so does a clean air filter). I am just back form a long trip through the Rockies and Cascade Mountains, and I never had any problem to get up and over them. In fact I mostly outran the diesel pushers and trucks. My gas mileage was around 8.5 mpg
I owned a 2000 Hurricane 29D. I don't remember passing any DPs (never drove in the Rockies with it), but I do remember the 6,000RPM screaming V-10 climbing the hills in the Ozarks. I never towed with it either.
I completed a 4,600 mile trip through the Rockies and Cascades in June in my DP and was passed by a few 400-500 HP DPs. Don't remember any V-10s passing me on the hills though. A few got me going downhill! :) :) :)
There you go, your engine was older than mine, and I bet you did not have a 5 Star tuning done to it, and I also bet that your son (if you have one) is a master mechanic with Ford, who keeps my engine in its top performance condition (and now he is thinking about to turbo charge it)
