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Joined: Dec 2002
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Speaking of Torqueflights. My truck for many years was a 1975 Dodge W20 w/ a 71 steel crank 440, a 727, 4.10 gears and the ubiquitous full time 4x4.
Many a time I came off the mountain running about 16000 GVW with the pickup and trailer loaded with firewood. First gear was too low, and second was way too high. But since the transfer case had a differential in it, you could run it it in low range on gravel, dirt or pavement.
I could run 3'rd and low on the flat parts, and down shift to second and low for descents. Even without a lockup converter, there was plenty of compression braking.
The old girl had 36 in dual glass packs dumped out in front of the rear axle. You could hear it coming off the mountain for miles.
When we hit the level pavement, we would stop and throw her back up into high range and come home. I remember using low range to come down Midvale Hill on Highway 95 once when my Mom sent me that way for a big load of fire wood.
Oh yes, good times, good company, hard work, great memories.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Joined: Sep 2016
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I drive I70 continental divide stretch more than I'd like. I see runaway trucks and brakes on fire all the time.
Downshift.
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On a slightly different track, this is dealing with manual transmissions in the 18 wheeler. When you get to a hill on the interstate, and there is a five-mile downhill that is steep, and they have signs "THREE TRUCK RUNOFF RAMPS NEXT 4 MILES. MAX SPEED 45 MPH."
You better shift down into 7th gear and let that transmission handle that hill. If you try to ride down that steep hill in 10th gear and let the brakes handle it, you won't make it. Your brakes will begins smoking and then will catch on fire. Either you have to eat the runoff ramp, which means you have had a bad day, or else you ride it on down and pull over. Your brakes catch fire, then the tires catch fire and the trailer burns up. Either truck runoff ramp or burned up trailer, your trucking career has come to an end. Or, you just hang on till 5 miles out onto the flats where you crash and take out a whole freeway full of cars and kill several people, Like that fool on I70 a couple years ago.
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I forgot one thing I change my Transmission fluid at 50,000 miles on all my cars and my Trundra , some less. Plus i only use the full synthetic ATF.
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