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Best place to cross the rocky mountains

Provience said:
About 8 to 10 thou backlash...in a few spots. I really have myself convinced not enough preload was letting it open up more when under use.

New gears, very cheap gears, but new nonetheless. I'm not trying to learn in expensive stuff :rasta:
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That tracks. I had a D60 in my first truck that was “rebuilt” before I got it. I ran it without pulling the diff cover. Caps were on the wrong side and had negative bearing pre load. It didn’t make noise under acceleration but howled when I’d make it coast. Pulled the cover and it was mostly hurt on the coast side of the ring gear.
 
Provience said:
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Worthwhile to go all the way up to 80 or just go on with the more southern route across 40?
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The hill W into or out of UT outside of Evanston WY on I80 is fun...especially if the brakes and/or tranny are funky. Ditto doing I 70 thru the tunnel and the various passes and until you get past Glenwood.
Then theres US 160 over La Veta Pass which takes you to Wolf Creek pass. The downhill side of Wolf Creek is fun, ask the folks at the bottom of the overlook for the San Juan valley.

IMO stay S of CO...
 
JR4X said:
That tracks. I had a D60 in my first truck that was “rebuilt” before I got it. I ran it without pulling the diff cover. Caps were on the wrong side and had negative bearing pre load. It didn’t make noise under acceleration but howled when I’d make it coast. Pulled the cover and it was mostly hurt on the coast side of the ring gear.
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I'm annoyed by it all, I'll do better next time :laughing: not being able to move under this thing is a bitch. First day, tried to drop the tank that most in the way, none of the capture nuts wanted to work right :laughing:

Should've just cut it all out, next time...
 
DVanVorous said:
The hill W into or out of UT outside of Evanston WY on I80 is fun...especially if the brakes and/or tranny are funky. Ditto doing I 70 thru the tunnel and the various passes and until you get past Glenwood.
Then theres US 160 over La Veta Pass which takes you to Wolf Creek pass. The downhill side of Wolf Creek is fun, ask the folks at the bottom of the overlook for the San Juan valley.
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Parley is only 7100 ft. He’s almost home free by the time he gets there. Twin falls is like 3 hours from there. That drop from west of Evanston to Salt Lake isn’t near as bad as the rest of the stuff everyone else is trying to send him up and down.

No one is suggesting he go through wolf creek, that route is counterproductive to northward travel even if it was the best way to cross the mountains. From east to west it takes you hours south and puts him right where he’s trying to avoid.
 
JR4X said:
Parley is only 7100 ft. He’s almost home free by the time he gets there. Twin falls is like 3 hours from there. That drop from west of Evanston to Salt Lake isn’t near as bad as the rest of the stuff everyone else is trying to send him up and down.

No one is suggesting he go through wolf creek, that route is counterproductive to northward travel even if it was the best way to cross the mountains. From east to west it takes you hours south and puts him right where he’s trying to avoid.
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I'll be bypassing salt lake city, the cutoff from Wyoming into Bear Lake isn't bad and is mostly down hill. 30 runs right to where I'm headed.


Oddly enough, hwy 36 in Texas is my first highway to take and hwy 36 in Idaho is my last highway :rasta:
 
I thought I 70 sucked went thru last year in RV to Moab / Yellowstone on the way back took I80 , it was dark when I left salt lake so no idea what the first 100 miles looked like .windy AF but was a tail wind
 
SanDiegoCJ said:
I'm half surprised they don't just close it for the winter. It'd sure fawk up access to Jackson if they did though.
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It's vital for the Jackson economy. A shitload of the Jackson area workforce lives in Idaho.
 
Provience said:
I'll be bypassing salt lake city, the cutoff from Wyoming into Bear Lake isn't bad and is mostly down hill. 30 runs right to where I'm headed.


Oddly enough, hwy 36 in Texas is my first highway to take and hwy 36 in Idaho is my last highway :rasta:
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Okay, I'll modify my route suggestion since I now know you're going to southeast Idaho instead of south central. From Vegas just go straight north on I-15. I'd still suggest taking I-10 across as it's the flattest.
 
Depending on when you come through Wyoming, I may be able to help if there are issues.
 
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55' overall length, chained the truck with an X underneath and drove around the block. Feels better than I thought. The damned high drainage intersections scrapped everywhere through.

2" drop hitch, 16.1/4" height static on the RV, dropped to 15.3/8" or so. About an inch is probably within the acceptable 550lb limit tongue weight.

it's entertaining, I've never run a trailer with this much space between the axles and the pivot in the middle. Going to be good for right lane on the highway.
 
That sucks and on a Sunday. What way did you decide to go Pro? Man a de capped blown trailer tire can make a mess of a fender. I had to put a whole new fender on my car trailer from one of those.

How’s that motorhome doing so far?
 
If you decided to come up I25 and need any help along the CO front range area, holler at me, I'll be around this week. But looks like you may have a while before you get to me :laughing: Hopefully things smooth out for ya.
 
Going 27 to 87 then 70 into Denver, then up and around via 80


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Aaaand that makes tire #3 for the day. Pretty glad I put air in the spares :laughing: did also have the strap break that was holding the 2 split ones from earlier, looked in the mirror and saw the 1 following me down the highway:laughing:

So now I've got 1 flat spare and 1 flat on the trailer.

This is as good an excuse as any to got the 225/75 instead of the 205/75.


Going to sleep on the side of "industrial blvd" and find a shop tomorrow
 
shortbus4x4 said:
Looks like you were reversing so fast it blew your trailer fender off. Consider it a warm up for NM.:flipoff2:

And I can remember as a kid my dad going through the desert in SoCal at night to save on equipment damage.
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Yeah it was nice and 80s this morning. Sign said 99* when the first let loose, which took out the second.

Now the third, that will put me at a full fender delete. Never did like those fenders anyways. They may have been floppy enough to cause damage, or it could be that the trailer tires are 8 years old and were just sitting in a field for the past 2 years.
 
JR4X said:
That sucks and on a Sunday. What way did you decide to go Pro? Man a de capped blown trailer tire can make a mess of a fender. I had to put a whole new fender on my car trailer from one of those.

How’s that motorhome doing so far?
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I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure how the motorhome is doing.

Firstly, it's doing as good with the trailer as it would've with the flat tow of the wife's car, 4.88 with trailer and 4.1 with car.

Secondly, I've been sticking with 55-60mph, which is right where it wants to shift from 3rd to O/D. So I went ahead and locked it into C6 mode to keep it from constantly shifting. Then it would sometimes try to shift into 2nd while going 60 mph, figured it was related to the psom issues.

Asked the wife what kind of noises she was hearing, faint whine was all. After it finally set in on me, I said "yeah, that's like a pump whenever not a gear whine though"....well, why the fuck is a pump whining?

Stopped for gas and sure enough, power steering fluid low.....and transmission fluid not on dipstick :homer:

Added ATF and without the trailer hooked up [because I had to run to O'Reilly for as I didn't have a 13/16 socket/wrench for trailer tires :homer: ] and it still would not hold O/D and cruise 65/70 mph like it did just a couple weeks ago.


Going to just ignore that, continue to use C6 mode, which has improved with more fluid, and cruise on. That'll be a winter project at this rate.

As long as I stay 55 mph, it's great :laughing:
 
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Provience said:
Going 27 to 87 then 70 into Denver, then up and around via 80


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Aaaand that makes tire #3 for the day. Pretty glad I put air in the spares :laughing: did also have the strap break that was holding the 2 split ones from earlier, looked in the mirror and saw the 1 following me down the highway:laughing:

So now I've got 1 flat spare and 1 flat on the trailer.

This is as good an excuse as any to got the 225/75 instead of the 205/75.


Going to sleep on the side of "industrial blvd" and find a shop tomorrow
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In 10 ply while you’re at it. I’m getting them from Peerless for $106 each and they seem to be doing me pretty well.
 
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