Manual transmission gasser
Any one remember when the last big cubic inch. Gas engine with a manual trans came out. I bet they are rare if the owners are like me. Lol The new autos just don't seem right for my mountain dri...
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Blt2ski
I've never been worried about up hill, actually not worried about downhill with the truck I have now. My t18 has a 6.32 granny gear I just have to think ahead. Granny isn't synchronized. I have lost traction on some sand covered roads but never got stopped because of power.. I was by myself and came up on a area of road deeply covered by damp leaves, I lost traction and decided to back up. As I was backing up I high centered the trailer on a rock I couldn't see in my mirrors. Couldn't go forward or backwards. I had to block all the wheels with rocks. Jack up the trailer axle. Put rocks and dirt under one trailer wheel. Then make sure the truck didn't get high centered on the same rock. That was a bit scary I was way out of the main travel areas. And of course no cell phone or CB reception.
Going up hill if I got worried I'd jump before the truck stopped. ;.0
Going downhill I'd get run over buy my trailer. I got to have me some gears and brakes. lol
As hot as it gets in eastern Washington and Oregon I figured the rattle snakes just went east for the winter. :>)
We have Rattle snakes up to 6000 feet. And I wouldn't get to carful until over 7000 ft. Especially on the eastern side in the big granite mountain areas. All that granite can warm things up a bunch. There are a few lakes I will go to up above Bishop. Sabrina, South and North lakes. But that's a long drive. The season is so short there that it can get crowded. And mice are terrible in a wet year on that side, even at 8000 ft..
I've never been worried about up hill, actually not worried about downhill with the truck I have now. My t18 has a 6.32 granny gear I just have to think ahead. Granny isn't synchronized. I have lost traction on some sand covered roads but never got stopped because of power.. I was by myself and came up on a area of road deeply covered by damp leaves, I lost traction and decided to back up. As I was backing up I high centered the trailer on a rock I couldn't see in my mirrors. Couldn't go forward or backwards. I had to block all the wheels with rocks. Jack up the trailer axle. Put rocks and dirt under one trailer wheel. Then make sure the truck didn't get high centered on the same rock. That was a bit scary I was way out of the main travel areas. And of course no cell phone or CB reception.
Going up hill if I got worried I'd jump before the truck stopped. ;.0
Going downhill I'd get run over buy my trailer. I got to have me some gears and brakes. lol
As hot as it gets in eastern Washington and Oregon I figured the rattle snakes just went east for the winter. :>)
We have Rattle snakes up to 6000 feet. And I wouldn't get to carful until over 7000 ft. Especially on the eastern side in the big granite mountain areas. All that granite can warm things up a bunch. There are a few lakes I will go to up above Bishop. Sabrina, South and North lakes. But that's a long drive. The season is so short there that it can get crowded. And mice are terrible in a wet year on that side, even at 8000 ft..
