Owners Manual
Driving
On
Grades
Reduce speed and shift to a lower gear
before
you start down a long or
steep downgrade.
If
you don’t shift down, you might have to
use
your
brakes
so
much that they would get hot and no longer work well.
On a long uphill grade, shift down and reduce your speed to around
45
mph
(70
km/h) or less to reduce the possibility
of
engine and transaxle
overheating.
If
your trailer weighs more than
1,000
pounds
(450
Kg) and you have an
automatic transaxle with Overdrive, you may want
to
drive in
“3”
instead
of Overdrive
Parking on Hills
You really should not park your vehicle, with a trailer attached, on a hill.
If
something goes wrong, your rig could start to move. People can be
injured, and both your vehicle and the trailer can be damaged.
But
if
you ever have to park your rig
on
a
hill,
here’s how to do it:
Apply your regular brakes, but do not shift into
“P’,
(Park).
Have someone place chocks-under the- trailer wheels.
When. the wheel chocks are
in
place, release the regular brakes until
the chocks absorb the load.
Reapply the regular brakes. THen shift into
“P7,
(Park) firmly and
apply your parking brake.
Release the regular brakes.
When
You
Are
Ready
to
Leave
Afler
Parking on
a
Hill
1.
Apply your regular brakes and hold the pedal down while you:
Start your engine;
Shift into a gear; and
0
Be sure
the
parking brake has released.
2.
Let up
on
the brake pedal.
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