Backing up a steep driveway in 4WD Low gear?
Hi folks. I'm looking for advice on whether I can, or should, use 4WD low gear to back up my 25 ft. Microlite (7k lbs.) in low gear with my 2017 Chev 1500 5.3L. The standard reverse gear seems kind of...
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There is a great potential of burning up your automatic transmission jockeying a heavy trailer into a spot. Makes no matter dirt (loosy-goosy) traction, or asphalt (good traction)
That puts the TC into high stall conditions and large amounts of power (if lots of throttle is used).
Almost no air flow, except for whatever the engine fan (makes no matter electric or water pump shaft) and worst is going backwards (as most do to jockey their setup into a tight space...worst yet if have to jack knife the setup, which has even more amounts of throttle needed
It just takes an instant to burn up one of the auto trannies clutches doing this
Most times, doesn't burn up a clutch, but burns the ATF to leave ash in that mix. Enough times doing that and the amounts of ash will do it's nasty business on high tolerance mating surfaces...mainly the valve body stuff
There is a great potential of burning up your automatic transmission jockeying a heavy trailer into a spot. Makes no matter dirt (loosy-goosy) traction, or asphalt (good traction)
That puts the TC into high stall conditions and large amounts of power (if lots of throttle is used).
Almost no air flow, except for whatever the engine fan (makes no matter electric or water pump shaft) and worst is going backwards (as most do to jockey their setup into a tight space...worst yet if have to jack knife the setup, which has even more amounts of throttle needed
It just takes an instant to burn up one of the auto trannies clutches doing this
Most times, doesn't burn up a clutch, but burns the ATF to leave ash in that mix. Enough times doing that and the amounts of ash will do it's nasty business on high tolerance mating surfaces...mainly the valve body stuff
