Towing help
Towing help
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When I had horses, I used to pull my 4 horse trailer all the way from Detroit up to the UP to ride. I stopped in ******* to fill up one time and met up with a designer of the X powertrain at the Speedway there. Got talking with him a while when I was filling up after going all that way in D. He said don't use D, that trans is made for hauling loads in OD. Ever since and up until I got rid of the horses I towed in OD and still today with 180,000 miles, the trans doesn't miss a beat! He said you cannot kill that trans and if you do, there was a defect in it to begin with. Now I haul a 6 place Renegade enclosed snowmobile trailer all the way up to places like Paradise, Curtis, Seney, Germfask and over to the Soo St. Marie in MI and Ontario and have yet to have a problem, except for a torque convertor giving a vibration.
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Originally Posted by Downriver Thunder
...and have yet to have a problem, except for a torque convertor giving a vibration.
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Originally Posted by NC Medic
So towing in OD is better then
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Originally Posted by Downriver Thunder
Toreador_Diesel, I took the X into the mechanic this time last year to solve the problem, he went through every box and that's what he found and replaced it. No problems since.
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Originally Posted by NC Medic
how can you find out what size 315/75/16 are 33 or 35
315/75/16 = 315mm wide with a sidewall that is 75% of the width and a 16" Rim.
1" = 25.4mm.
315mm x .75 = 236mm
236mm/25.4 = 9.3"
You have a sidewall on top and bottom plus the diameter of the rim. So....
(9.3 x 2) + 16 = 34.6"
I'm at work on a Sunday and this math was more entertaining to figure out than the math I should be doing for work..... which I now have to get back to doing
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That is the mathematical formula and it is right. But not every 315/75-16 is 34.6 inches in diameter. Some are as little as 34.1 and some as much as 35.4. There may be some outside that too. Going from one brands size to another brands size does not guarantee you a change in size. I learned that the hard way going from Bridgestone to Nittos, thinking I was increasing about half inch when actually I lost a very small fraction. This was on a car, but decease or even staying the same was counterproductive. Can't trust metric sizes, you need to check manufactures specifications on actual size and revolutions per mile to get accurate picture.