Mountain Towing Advice
I live in Kansas and am dreaming of taking our 5er out to Colorado. The 5er is 35' and I drive a 3/4 ton, 6.0L Gasser. I just scaled the rig (~17K lbs) and I'm almost exactly at my truck GVWR full...
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hornet28 wrote:
Depending on the grade down you may want to drop to an even lower gear than it took for going up. If you use the gears it will save even more on your brakes. Can't tell you how many times I've been behind someone who didn't know enough not to ride the brakes. I'll tell you the sight and smell of brakes smoking isn't good. One place I've seen that more than once is 89A from Prescott to Cottonwood through Jerome
I totally agree with this statement and have said so many times. Truck has changed since the old truck driver said that but he probably was correct.
chevman
