Posted: Jun 23 2009 at 2:38pm | IP Logged

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On the Trails in the Colorado Rocky Mountains (I've been doing 26 years) you'll be wishing for an automatic. That is if you are doing several trails a day. Typicaly a trail will switch from smooth 30mph to absolute low range grearing where manuals need to use their starters in order to save burning the clutch. 

After you  go up the south side of Taylor Pass late in the day and in a hurry to get back to camp you'll wish you had an automatic.

Automatics have a Tourque multiplier at low RPMs.

Mud Sucks, Sand eats fuel, water rots bearings... ROCKS RULE!

Have a good one..  Don S..

I have a very active case of laziness but I’ve been trying to slow down!

We’re only at the top of the food chain as long as the diesel trucks keep running.

Posted: Jul 01 2009 at 4:15pm | IP Logged

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I only went from 30" tires to 31" so I only gained a hslf inch ground clearance from what ever stock was. But, removing the rear bumper, cranking the T-Bars 5/8th" and 1" lift blocks in the rear Helped the trucks body clear the rocks better!

Posted: Jul 08 2009 at 2:29pm | IP Logged

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Automatics were even better in the old days. We Had a 1950 & 1951 Cadilac and they could be pushed at 30 MPH to start them. And not demage the bumpers!!!

I wouldn't buy a manual today if they were $5,000.00 less even if it had real bumpers!

Have a good one while you can still laugh about it.. Don S..

… Thinking about Blonde Jokes… The lawmakers in Wastington D.C. don’t seem any more intelligent!