I did a few miles on 20. The dak pulled great, I kept my foot out of it most
of the time. Had a nice stretch of road where a BMW wanted to try and keep
up. He would hookup on the corners but each bit of straight road I dusted
him. The pavement petered out and when we hit the gravel he slowed way down,
I went WOT and LMAO.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JOE GLOWICKI" <shelback@i-star.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 2:25 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Good advice from this list
> did you go through the north casade highway 20 or 2 i drove them both in
> summer and winter good serany how did the dak take the climes?
>
> Patrick O'Day wrote:
> >
> > Hey all
> >
> > Just got back from a 500 mile road trip through the Cascade mountain
range,
> > for those of you in Midwest and south picture your mountains (bumps) and
> > multiply by 10. Any who, hundreds of miles on winding back roads, paved,
> > sort of paved, gravel, dirt, and mud. Passed over the top of the range 6
> > times from the inland valley to the pacific ocean. sunshine and blue
skies
> > the whole time.
> >
> > Dak content starts here...
> > I put in the Autolite 3923 plugs and switched to Mobile 1 oil and I
gotta
> > say thanks to all of you who recommended this change. We have been
getting
> > 14.7 mpg on the freeway until the new plugs went in. This trip averaged
17.3
> > mpg !
> >
> > What a great way to start out the new year.
> >
> > Patrick O'Day
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