+6000 Mile towing trip with a 6.0 and.....

[Albin]

Not a dang thing happened.

Springs on my 4runner took a crap and I had to spend 6 hours and $372 in Flagstaff to get them fixed (Thanks American Springs!!!!) and I shredded one trailer tire, probably destroying two 3500 lb trailer axles in the process (I was on a gravel road west of Pyramid Lake, NV and didn't see the shredded tire, oh well).

The 6.0? Boring. Purred like a kitten the whole way, whether it was 125 degrees in Death Valley or going up Red Mountain Pass (11018 feet elevation) towards Silverton, it didn't miss a beat. Towing milage was probably at least 5500 miles (6500 lbs on the axles according to CAT scales). The only thing that passed me was unloaded Rams or other 6.0's.

Have no clue what the mileage was due to the extensive use of my 90 gallon aux tank (only filled up in Amarillo TX, Gallup NM, Fernley NV (twice) and Corinth MS and haven't refilled the tank yet.

For the 6.0 haters, sorry to disappoint you.

I'll post a vacation "By the Numbers" summary later.

Al

[KingKong]

Great story
Way to go.

[iamclayman2000]

Nice.

I used to have a 1990 Toy PU with a SAS on 37 SS's
Fun rig.
too much money to maintain.

how come the rocketcityrockcrawlers website password protects the trail rig pics?

clay

[Albin]

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Nice.

I used to have a 1990 Toy PU with a SAS on 37 SS's
Fun rig.
too much money to maintain.

how come the rocketcityrockcrawlers website password protects the trail rig pics?

clay

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Clay,

Private Club rides are supposed to be password protected; public rides are supposed to be open to the public and the link is on the home page. Members rigs pics *should* be open, I'll have to check. Which ones are you specifically referring to?

The reason the private club rides went private is due to the enviroweenies and the use of our's and other 4x4 clubs web pics to use against us with the Gov't.

[PaCeMaKeR]

nice pics.. i like the mud bog ones

I also have a little 4x4 project ive been building and playing with

http://www.ccstreetscene.com/forums/...tachmentid=957

[Albin]

Ok, here's our vacation "By the Numbers":

Albin and Al's 2006 Vacation
“By the Numbers”

Number of states visited or driven through: 12 (TN, MS, AR, OK, TX, NM, AZ, CA, NV, OR, UT, CO)

Number of states visited at one time: 4 (NM, AZ, UT & CO at Four Corners)

Number of (trouble-free) miles driven in 6.0L Ford: 6001.3 miles (highway and secondary)

Number of miles driven in the 4Runner: 1395 miles (secondary and off-road)

Number of miles via air tour: 253 miles (air)

Total combined miles traveled: 7649.3 (highway, secondary, off-road and air)

Number of eggs fried on pavement or rocks: 1 (out of 6 attempts at Death Valley NP)

Western-most longitude reached: Alvord Desert, OR (Queen of Sheeba mine and ghost town, Death Valley NP, was a close second)

Northern-most latitude reached: Alvord Desert, OR

Number of hot springs visited: 4 (Double Hot, NV; Trego, NV; Soldier Meadows, NV; Alvord Desert, OR

Number of volcano’s hiked: 2 (Bandero, NM; Ubehebe, Death Valley NP)

Number of National Parks visited: 4 (Death Valley NP; Arches NP, UT; El Morro NP, NM (air); Chaco Canyon, NM (air))

Highest altitude reached (ground): 12,840 feet (Black Bear Pass, near Telluride, CO)

Highest altitude reached (air) 9800 feet (Shiprock area, NM)

Lowest altitude reached -282 feet (Badwater, Death Valley NP, lowest point in Western Hemisphere)

Flattest place visited: Black Rock Desert, NV (largest playa in the world and location of the 1997 World Land Speed Record)

Second flattest place visited: Alvord Desert, OR (large playa and location of Female Land World Speed Record)

Steepest place visited: Black Bear Pass, Telluride, CO (+3,000 foot drop-off in one mile to Telluride)

Highest pucker factor experienced: Black Bear Pass, Telluride, CO (+1,000 drop-off 2 feet from vehicle tires plus hairpin turns)

Second highest pucker factor: Pilot executing 80 degree roll so we could take pics of Anasazi ruins, Shiprock area, NM (good thing I didn’t eat breakfast!)

Hottest natural temperature experienced: 127 degrees F (NWS-measured high temp for Thursday, July 20 at Furnace Creek, Death Valley NP; Badwater is a little lower in elevation and therefore probably was a few degrees hotter)

Hottest temperature endured: 170 degrees F (measured temp of vehicle heat air during climb out of Death Valley NP on July 20 (heat was turned on to cool overheated engine)

Coldest temp experienced: Around 40 degrees F (Silverton, CO; enough of that crap, we went back to the desert!)

Number of vehicle accidents: 0

Number of tickets: 0

Number of warnings: 0

Number of times pulled over by cops: 0

Wildlife seen: White- and black tailed deer, jack rabbits galore, antelope, rattlesnake (dead; no, not us), 1 dead Golden Eagle (again, not us), 1 mountain lion or bobcat; several wild horses and burros

Number of digital pictures & movies taken: +3400 (2.6 GB)

[njmjc]

That sounds like one heck of a trip, glad the truck stood on it's own......how many days?????

[Albin]

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That sounds like one heck of a trip, glad the truck stood on it's own......how many days?????

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Left at midnight, Thursday July 13, arrived back home safely at around 5 PM Sunday, August 6th.

Thanks,

Al