snow, hail, lost wheel etc.

[chuck will]

My point in quest, exactly I was just curious how, and if there was a
secret to driving in the snow or ice with the light front ends of the
GMC. It was directed too going to MI for Thanksgiving and then clear to
FL for Christmas. I would love to travel to these places too. But in
the winter time across some of the snowiest places in the USA I am very
hesitant. I was caught in a hail storm/tornado in NE. in 1989 when we
were returning on (Maiden Voyage of the GMC) from Il. Not fun and I
thought at the time we were having things thrown at us. Lucky for us no
dents. The GMC design must have been a help. On the lost wheel, yes!
one time my front right went down the road on my 56 F-100 PU. One time
blew a couple of tires on landing on a Carrier. No I do not care for
the feeling of any tradgedy in any kind of equipment. I once had to
eject and that was nofun either. Chuck

 

[zachary zehnacker]

We have traveled in the snow occasionally. Sometimes in very bad snow.
The GMC has performed well under all situations. This was all while towing
the trailer. Some of the 18 wheelers were even having trouble making it up
some of the hills that we were getting up. With the double passenger
seats, we had everybody up front. We also took the weight bars (about 150
lbs total) for the race car out of the trailer and put them in on the floor
in front of the seats. This put about 325 lbs more in the front then we
usually have with just the driver and passenger.
The GMC handled as well as can be expected, and we were able to worry more
about what the other drivers were doing then what our GMC and trailer was
going to do.
I think the FWD is a very good asset for handling in these conditions.

We have also found that lowering the front tire pressure can really help
out in low traction situations. With the load range E tires, we normally
keep them at 80 lbs. We drop this to around 60-65 (load range D spec
pressure) when it is raining heavily or the roads are slick. We try to
reinflate as soon as the road dries out though. At the track we sometimes
go down as low as 20-30 lbs to get out of some of the "PIT" spaces they put
us in. Sometimes, even that doesn't work, but then they usually have
tractors going around pulling everybody else out as well.

Zak

>My point in quest, exactly I was just curious how, and if there was a
>secret to driving in the snow or ice with the light front ends of the
>GMC. It was directed too going to MI for Thanksgiving and then clear to
>FL for Christmas. I would love to travel to these places too. But in
>the winter time across some of the snowiest places in the USA I am very
>hesitant. I was caught in a hail storm/tornado in NE. in 1989 when we