JuzPlaneKrazy

I was also going to say the 101 frwy grade by Camarillo coming back from Ventura is a steep little mother too. I used to get all sweaty palms heading into that hill. Now I'm hitting the hill at 60mph, dropping into 2nd gear when I hit 50mph and I let it "chug chug chug" up the hill doing 50 while I'm sipping a Mountain Dew

ptgarcia

Haven't had one of those in a while. I always like Squirt and Cactus Cooler

CrazyCooter

1400 is high since the Juice was still boost fooling.

Imagine what the temps would have been w/ stock intake, exhaust, and no fooling!

$oC@l CTD

I know! That's why I was trying to get a comparo between what over folks have been seeing under similar circumstances. I will be going back up that same pass next week with a Dodge Dakota (3500lbs) and U-Haul tow dolly (500lbs) so my load will be a little over half of what I was pulling up yesterday...we'll see what numbers that pass brings. If it starts warming up again, I'll kick down a gear...but I don't think they will get close to that. I can hardly feel 4k behind me.

ptgarcia

I can motor up the Cajon pass with about a 10,000 lbs load (9000 lb travel trailer and 1000 lbs of motorcycles and gear in the bed) at 60-65 mph and not hit 1400*. That's with 35" tires and 3.73 and the Quad box on 60 h.p. But the Cajon is only about 10 miles of grade and averages about 5% with a couple mile stretch of 6% at the top.

$oC@l CTD

You lock out OD for that...I would assume so, as if you were IN OD, you would be lugging kinda bad...I'm kinda confused I guess. Maybe I should have turned my boxes on...maybe that would have helped out a bit...either way, I was only going about 5mph faster than you were and was running at 2200RPMs...and I had 3k less behind my truck than you did...Is Cajon pass the name of that stretch that goes from the 8E on up to Campo to 4200ft elevations or are you talking about somewhere else?

bkrukow

Dont know exactly what it weighs but the total of the hole rig is around 20-22K depending on how much water and how many ATVs and people I have with. I dont know if it makes a diference or not but this was a 6 speed and I was pulling in 5th gear on the grades at around 2700 RPM at a little over 70 MPH. If I could keep it above 2500RPM it ran a lot cooler and better than it did if it dropped down lower. If trafic slowed me down to below around 50-55 MPH on the grades it would take forever to get back up to speed if at all. A few times trafic literaly stopped on the road for no good reason and forced me to start from a dead stop. When that happened the best I could get out of it was abought 50 MPH, it just wouldent go any faster. My new truck is a auto and I am NOT looking forward to pulling those hills next summer on our anual trip to Colorado but we will see how it does. The grades I am talking abought are the ones on I70 heading west out of Denver. They climb up from Denver at around 5700' to around 11100' over a 60 mile strech of 8-10% grades that are abought 6-8 miles long each in a strair caise type of setup.

ptgarcia

Yeah, if I remember right I was cruising up in 3rd with the torque converter locked. I'm guessing I was around 2400-2500 rpm or so. Keep the rpm up and the speed reasonable and you'll keep your cool.

The Cajon pass is on the 15 freeway just north of the 10 and 210 freeway. It connects the Inland Empire (San Bernardino/Rialto area) to the high desert (Hesperia, Oak Hills, Victorville area). You would go up if on your way to Las Vegas.