Colorado B.S. Thread

My beaters are only that white when they first come out of the package.

 

Still better than hand digging.

 

It’s funny watching her and Alec burn. I’m over here with a light bit on my face and arms. Hurray for working outside most days.

 

Infinitely better. My back still hates me for the hand digging I had to do around the water line.
I've developed a good technique though. I dig a big ass hole right next to the water line so all I have to do with the shovel is push dirt away from the line and into the hole.

 

I’m fortunate enough to have one of them year round tans

 

Valuable tricks of the trade. We do that a lot too when diggin up dem power lines.

 

Synthetic winch line swap complete.

 

One of the toys coming to Moab with us.

 

A real golf cart on Kings!!!!

Have fun! I'll be out there for RT for sure!

 

After Moab I’m gonna send these kings your way.

 

I would say not normal. The system should be maintaining an operating temp, and if it isn't then either something is wrong or you're doing something that the system can't keep up with. Assuming your coolant level looks normal for whatever temp you're checking it at, did you notice the radiator fan running or not when it was hot (or at all)? Were you running the AC? Were you doing a bunch of starts and stops and shutting the engine down in between? Was it only doing it on the trail and returned to normal when you were back on pavement?

 

My Moab week starts now

 

Only on trail, was not starting and stopping. Fan was running. Was in 4 high the whole time, perhaps that was taxing the engine and I should have been in low to let the transmission do more work?

 

Soon...

 

But I want to go now.

 

You could have came camping last night...

 

I wouldn't think so. I'm rarely in 4lo on a trail like that, and usually just on the downhill side when hi isn't enough for decent engine braking. I can only vaguely remember a couple of times the engine was running a little hot, and unfortunately not well enough to recall what all the circumstances were beyond the things I mentioned.

 

All the heat created by the shearing forces inside the torque converter get transferred into the engines cooling system. You can overheat the engine by overheating the transmission 1st. Use your gear ratios to save your transmission and engine fluid lives and to keep temperatures down.

Edit: as a general rule, if your speeds are staying below 15mph off road, switch to low range. I'll even run up to 30mph.

 

I want to go to Moab. My planning and mental preparation has switched to that trip. Part of my reason for not coming, the truck is all but empty already.