8% grade descent
Newbie Here. F350 and 37' fifth wheel. Yesterday I went down an 8 degree slope and left it in Tow Haul while using the breaks on trailer and truck to slow me down. I was thinking I might have been ...
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PatsRock wrote:
Thanks so much for the help!
If I want to start out in 2nd gear at the top of a hill do I have to put it in Neutral, disengage the tow/haul, then put it in second gear? Just wondering what the correct sequence is?
No, and why would you ever think that it worked in such a cockamaime fashion?
You slow down to where the engine won't over-rev when you drop it into 2nd, and drop it into 2nd. Tow-haul is neither here nor there in this situation because you've overridden the shifting system by dropping the truck into 2nd.
