Towing on a hot day
Does the outside temperature matter that much when towing? Leaving on Wednesday for the mountains and it's supposed to be 97 and humid.
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- I live in the mountains where you are headed and temps are in the 80’s.
If you are concerned with I40 East of here, I would just leave as early as possible.
I just came back from Lake Hartwell where it was in the 90’s. According to the TPMS, temp never got over 100.
We’ve gone up and down both Saluda Grade, Black Mountain and Hwy 25 many times with our horribly, undersized, puny truck pulling our just plain awful, held together with staples and spit TT at 55 with nary a problem. Usually, we have to do one of the three to go anywhere.
With your description, you should be fine. Come to our mountains, enjoy, spend lots of money. GrandpaKip wrote:
I live in the mountains where you are headed and temps are in the 80’s.
If you are concerned with I40 East of here, I would just leave as early as possible.
I just came back from Lake Hartwell where it was in the 90’s. According to the TPMS, temp never got over 100.
We’ve gone up and down both Saluda Grade, Black Mountain and Hwy 25 many times with our horribly, undersized, puny truck pulling our just plain awful, held together with staples and spit TT at 55 with nary a problem. Usually, we have to do one of the three to go anywhere.
With your description, you should be fine. Come to our mountains, enjoy, spend lots of money.
No way to not spend lots of cash..LOL..rbpru wrote:
We drove all over the AZ desert for a month, cold nights and hot days. the truck/trailer combo did what it was supposed to do.
Any newer pickup with a factory installed tow/haul package, towing within its specified limits, will have no problems in hot weather on long uphill runs.- The main thing I do when towing hot is to let the engine idle a bit before shutoff if it is running on the warm side. This dumps some of the heat out of the system so it doesn't boil the coolant or overheat the transmission fluid. Even 5 minutes helps.
- Wasn't a big deal. It was 92 degrees at the bottom. I ran 45mph all the way to the top. The temp gauge changed about 2 degrees and that was it. We're chilin in the Smokies.
- Good. Now go spend that money.
