Towing in the mountains with a gasser????

Hybridhunter wrote:

RinconVTR wrote:


Well I am wrong on occasion! LOL. But its modern transmissions that I am most familiar with...not older ones. And really, they are not fundamentally different.

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Say what? There a fewer similarities than differences, Clutch to clutch shifting, any gear torque converter locking, and robust overdrive ratios that are used for towing are not even the same technology as years past. Each of those items is a game changer.

Add in semi synthetic low viscosity factory fill, and completely redefined operating temperature range, and you have what amounts to a new technology.

If you believe that modern transmissions "are not that different" then are familiar with neither.

Say what? You better brush up on "technology".

Clutch to clutch shifting ---- completely different trans type and not used in trucks nor any towing vehicles I am aware of!

any gear torque converter locking --- not any gear, that I know for sure. It may very well "lock up" in more higher gears than decades ago, but definitely not all gears. Say it does...this would not be new tech.

robust overdrive ratios --- "robust OD ratios"? Uh, whatever that means. Regardless, different OD rations has little to nothing to do with technology.

semi synthetic low viscosity factory fill --- not new tech, nor is full syn. Its simply in widespread use today.

completely redefined operating temperature range --- only based on running semi and full synthetic oil that can handle the higher temps. Nothing more. And we aren't talking anything drastic either. I recall the very same operating and towing trans temp ranges 3 decades ago as I do today.