"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
12/29/2018 at 10:35 • Filed to: None
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"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
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We got a dusting of snow in Las Cruces last night. The German Shepherd loves the snow. The lab/pitbull mix is curled up on the couch hoping it goes away soon.
It snowed quite a bit more in locations further North in NM yesterday, which means the truck and trailer got to play in the snow on the way back down from Albuquerque. I LOVE driving in the snow, and about 100 miles of the trip were slush or snow packed. There were also a few miles of sheet ice North of Socorro, which meant playing the game what direction do you think that car/truck/semi was heading before their off course excursion.
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Th e Michelin LTX seemed to do pretty good on my 2WD truck in the snow for all seasons , but it was a bit hard to tell objectively . A few hundred pounds stuff in the bed and a car trailer with a miata’s worth of tongue weight on the back of truck is a bit like engaging cheat mode in the snow for a non-4WD truck.
I’ve got my Dad’s car down here to do a timing belt/tune up/Svending on it next week, since I don’t go back to work until the 8th. He’s finally managed to rack up 61k on his 05 Miata. It also happens to generally match my trailer.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
12/29/2018 at 12:58 |
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“Cheat mode in the snow for a non-4wd truck”
Until you hit a grade of more than about 3%.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/29/2018 at 13:01 |
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It did fine on the two 6% grades, and driving across Southern NM is largely climbing in and out of one c anyon after another. With less weight on the rear, it would’ve been an exercise of carrying more speed up hills.
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
12/29/2018 at 13:52 |
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You must have still had decent contact between rubber and pavement.
I’ve done the trailer in the snow thing with 2wd, and even with winter tires and locking diff it doesn’t work. You can only carry so much speed around corners before you start to lose the trailer, and you won’t get very far up the hills with the trailer hanging wheels in the ditch... Or the canyon as it were.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/29/2018 at 14:56 |
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Some of them were pretty snow packed, but the road had been plowed and sanded. No corners to speak of on most canyons, as they’re a straight up and down kind of thing. Even the big one that does have a couple of curves on each side is a 75 speed limit mph interstate. Even snow packed, it felt fine at 45-50ish around them on the way down . I can see what you’re saying on a tight, twisty, two lane mountain road