Driving lesson? (long)

[X-10]

Went snowmaching today which is about 120 miles away and truck ran great pulling loaded four place trailer up mountain to parking area (put old V-10 to shame). Parked uphill with one side of rig in the snow other on paved highway. Put in four-high to park as snow was pretty crusty. Rode all day then came back and got ready to leave with temps about 30* and put truck in first and let clutch out and she almost died. tried again with just a very little throttle and she did die after sounding like I was trying to take off in 3rd. Tried couple more times then backed up a little and she rolled fine. No brakes locked up. I put her in 4-low and she crept right up the road a little ways then shifted back and same thing again. Finally revved her pretty good and she took off. I'm wondering if there is something wrong or I just need a driving lesson. I never had to give it that much throttle at all in 1rst to get my boat up the boat ramp and this hill I parked on didn't seem as steep. I just put in fuel pressure gauge yesterday and have good pressure (14 idle, 10-11 cruise with trailer, 7 WOT empty). I did get a little diesel spray on fuel filter side of motor when priming gauge line (changed filter at same time). One other factor I don't know if matters, I just went out and started pickup to double check for any problems under hood and fan was running with temp on left 190 mark. Sorry to ramble on, but have some warranty defeating upgrades scheduled for next week and would like to know if I have a problem, or just need to learn to drive . Thanks for any ideas.

 

[DNelson]

X-10,



What was the ambient temp when you ran into this situation? I find that above 7000 feet with temp < 32, it takes a while for the engine to run efficiently. I've almost stalled my '99 going up my driveway if I don't let it idle for a few minutes, if it hasn't been plugged in over night.



Don

 

[X-10]

Don, overhead on truck said it was 30 degrees. The parking area is somewhere about 9-9500 ft. I think I did revert back to gasser days and just fired and tried leaving. I'm hoping it was just cold, but I've never experienced that little of umph in 1rst before. I did look in the big book today and found out the fan is supposed to be running all the time at regular speed . Thanks for the response, Doug

 

[Miklos]

When you get done sledding and are back at the trailer, fire up your truck and let it warm up while you load the sleds. Works for me!



This last weekend, on Mt St Helens, I took my upper deck instead of my trailer. They made a new parking lot last year that is for single vehicles only, no trailers. The XC skiers had figured this lot to be for them only. They were not to happy to have me there with my noisy, smelly snowmobiles and noisy, smelly diesel truck in "their" parking lot. The forest ranger sure thought it was funny though. That big diesel sitting there with two mountain sleds on the back, idleing, amoungst the little Subarus.