Are you running different tires now? It may just be your tires are loading
up and the added wheel speed in 4H helps clean them out, you "dig" through.
Mark
"Jon" <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
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> Finally got around to getting the plow back on the Ram.
> I started to plow in 4lo but was really having some traction
> problems. At one point I had dragged some snow back (downhill)
> then lifted the plow tried to drive through it (uphill), but
> it just spun. On a hunch, I popped it back up into 4hi and
> walked right through it. I left it in 4hi and traction was
> greatly improved over 4lo.
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> The strange thing is that I have done a good amount of plowing
> the past few years in 4lo, but I don't remember the traction
> being that bad. Maybe I just never got myself into a situation
> where I needed the extra traction before.
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> Anybody have any theories as to why 4hi seems to be working
> better than 4lo in the snow? Only thing I can think of is
> although the tires are spinning slower, there is just too
> much torque transmitted in 4lo? What range do you use for
> plowing?
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> Another plowing related question - does anybody who plows
> use a tranny temp gauge? What sort of temp increases are you
> seeing? I don't have a gauge on the Ram, I thought maybe the
> next time I drop the pan I should think about installing one.
>
> TTYL!
>
> -Jon-
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