As promised some photos of our long 8 week vacation in our IDI motorhome.

I have over 1000 pics, but will cut it down to about 100, just to give y'all an idea of the places we been and visited.

First interesting stop, in Walcott Iowa, on I-80, the World's Largest Truck Stop.



Chimney Rock




Hot Springs






Cody, Wyoming 4th of July Rodeo parking lot (we always did have one of the newest campers in the lots where ever we went lol )




Rodeo action


Rodeo night Wal-Mart parking lot, counted a total of 63 campers around midnight before hitting the sac.

 

Old Trail Town












This is a quick pic I must show, it's in a ghost town called Elkhorn in Montana, and we drove around in the camper stoping here and there for pics and I snaped a few from the window, this one I snaped as we were trying to get moving up on a step hill, and couldn't move. You can see the coal on the side. lol we had to back up all the way down, and try it again.


Back up to Canada for a few days for the Calgary Stampede.




Over in B.C

 

Awesome!

 

Very nice.

 

You couldn't move forward at all on the hill? That would be a bad situation with a large trailer behind you. I will keep that in mind! wow

 

Nice pics, looking forward to seeing more! That Terex Titan is impressive, I hope to be able to see it in person someday!

 

Nope wouldn't move an inch. Keep in mind it was very steep, lots of stumps, rocks sticking out everywhere, but it happened 3 times in that little ghost town that we had to back up down a hill, or almost down, to be able to drive back up. lol Non-turbo diesel at it's finest

 

u passed right buy my house and dint stop buy

 

great pics John!

 

Its scary but not completely surprising. I had situations like that in reverse with a trailer before I had the transfer case. Granted I have 3.08 gears but I was no where near 11000 lbs.

Its not so much a turbo problem as a gearing problem. The torque converter simply stalled and couldn't produce enough torque to get rolling.

 

Is it ok to leave front hubs unlocked, shift to 4 low, and continue up the hill? Does that give you a considerable amount more power to move?

 

I think I remember reading in some old thread that Dave S. said it is ok to do that, and he does it sometimes. Although not 100% sure....

 

Not going to hurt, but I suspect that John's RV is pretty unlikely to have locking hubs, or a transfer case!!

 

looks like you had a blast! me and the wife are lookin at campers now so that someday we can go on nice trips like that and hopefully meet some of the fine people on here in person

 

Absolutely. Once you manouver a heavy trailer in low range (hubs unlocked) you'll never want to go back. My truck doesn't even have the front whee drive setup but it does have a transfer case so I use it.

The truck will have enough torque to easily break traction (or drive train parts under the right conditions) so use a light foot. In the case of automatic, often you will be on the brakes instead of the accelerator pedal. Using this method eliminates most of the hunting between pedals for cases when you are on uneven ground when manouvering on an incline with a heavy load.

I don't really have to use it on the boat ramp but I do anyway because its just easier.