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Re: Towing in the mountains
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Originally Posted by Quad T
My 1st suggestion would be regarding brakes, as the downhill part of towing in areas with big elevation changes is way more important than the uphill runs as far as I'm concerned.
What kind of brake controller do you have? If you don't have something like a Prodigy then get one. One of the many features I like about this unit is it isconstantly monitoring itself, so if it fails you in theory can get an advance warning.
For someone like you I would spend a great deal of time paying attention to your trailer's brakes, I cannot talk enough about how important it is to have these adjusted evenly and up close, you want these things to be working as best as they can.
Use the trucks tranny to downshift and put some of the braking load on the titan's drivetrain.
And like Helinut1970 said, screw the people behind you, go as slow as you want, brake lighter and for shorter periods of time, allowing the brakes a chance to breath/cool off, the worst thing to do is get on them and then ride them, this is a great way to overheat the pad material and have them fail.
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Or catch fire!!! Great points, I didnt touch on going down hill. A whole different ball game there.
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