Re: [AMC-list] Gotta get off the pot!

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

I agree w/Frank. Sorry I missed yr earlier post.

The 195.6 OHV in an american is probably not much less powerful than the 232
in my classic wagon, and if it is, it's a small amount.

The key is to pick speed/load on the car so that the car is happy, not
necessarily you :-). On the 600 miles up to Burning Man (Gerlach NV) from
Los Angeles, 95% of the driving is 60 mph; a camp trailer, tons o'crap for 2
- 4 people for over a week (2, 3 people in the car) and the last 150 miles,
40 - 50 gallons of water plus groceries. Most of it is over 5000 foot
altitude, and there is 100 miles of over 7000.

For that 5% that's upgrade, I gooooo slooooooow. Hell, crawl in 1st with the
flashers on on two sections of 6% grade above 5000. Who cares what others
think? I'm have no need to impress people with my ability to brute-force my
way there. One of those I drive via the transmission temperature gauge; it
gets close to 280 degrees. (Most of the time it's 160 - 190 for that trip.)

I do that hot-trans grade once in a year. About 5 miles of it. At 15,000
miles/year, That's 0.03% of the time. Most people would get the biggest V8
and heaviest duty everything and drive that 100% of the time to solve the
0.03% problem, but that has other costs and hassles. I like my easy
comfortable flexible wagon and it's done this for me for 20 years.

When the going gets tough, the smart slow down :-)
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