Quote Originally Posted by DmaxMaverick View Post
. It's normal. Mine has reached that level, and a bit more, but I was hauling at GCWR+ up a long 6% grade, on a 118F+ hot summer day. Turned off the A/C, opened the windows and enjoyed the wonderful noise of a howling cooling fan. ).
Was that going up 395 out of Bishop?
Moving from Riverside to Susanville wife was driving my 74 C2500 pulling my 54 Ford with 283 and 4 speed. Hit that hill and it pulled us down real quick. I had her stop and I hopped in the Ford still hooked up with tow bar. I told her when I wave at you start driving. She started to roll and I dropped the Ford in gear and up the hill we went, 65 Mph. Passed a CalTrans crew and they must have radioed ahead, as we crested the grade the rest of their crew was cheering us on. To many years running push pull scrapers I guess.