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BradW wrote:Wouldn't have been thrilled about working a manual through some of the nasty switchbacks we've driven through these last few months in N. CA, UT and CO. We lock our Cummins in 2nd or 3rd gear, activate the exhaust brake, and we're good-to-go. Keep the Cummins between 2 - 2.5k, which is the sweet spot for maximum exhaust braking on the downgrades, and good, responsive power delivery on the upgrades. Rarely needed the brakes. To each their own.
. . . That road is a long, very narrow, windy, 9% down grade mountain road. No way I would have driven that truck/Camper down that road without a clutch.
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Aug-14-2019 04:17 AM
BradW wrote:NRALIFR wrote:
BradW said: “Dang manual trannies, you just can't depend on them.....give me a good reliable automatic any day.”
I guess old dogs CAN learn new tricks when necessary! :W
:):)
I admit I was wrong about the new automatics. They have come a VERY long way.
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burningman wrote:
You fire it up in gear and go....
Aug-11-2019 12:48 PM
Kayteg1 wrote:specta wrote:
If I was going to unload at campgrounds on a regular basis I'd buy me a travel trailer.
Seeing some folks at campground - bu the time they back and park their TT at the spot, crank the stabilizing jacks, unhook hitch and WD bars, lower the steps - I am unloaded with my TC and long gone....
Than with variety of TC and different use of them, we can't apply 1 family routine to others. It is all that suits you.
I just pointed that having pets and traveling in 3-digits temperatures, you can't take the pets with TC and leave them on the streets for hr when you walk at whatever you like.
Aug-11-2019 08:56 AM
BradW wrote:
Three times in 23 years.
That doesn't included when the clutch slave cylinder went out on our 2006 F350 and left us stranded at Shinning Rocks Wilderness. Then had to tow the truck/camper off the mountain to the nearest Ford dealer in Henderson, NC. Removed the camper in their parking lot and spent the night there until they could fix it the next day. Dang manual trannies, you just can't depend on them.....give me a good reliable automatic any day. 🙂
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