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Out with the armstrong steering trucks and manaul shifters
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 732712" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>You are 100% wrong.</p><p> </p><p>Ergonomically speaking, they were every bit as bad as the P-600's they replaced. No power steering, no 3 pt belt, high step, small door, low-backed seat. They were built in the late 80's but they were obsolete when new and functionally no different from the crap we drove in the 60's. The only "improvements"... were that the shelves and doors were made of aluminum instead of wood, and they were fuel-injected instead of carbuerated. </p><p>And as far how they pull hills....whats "wrong" with them is that they have a 4.3 liter V-6 with a governor on it. It makes around 125 horsepower on a good day. They are grossly underpowered, even moreso when fully loaded and pulling a trailer. I used to tow a TP-6 trailer with a P-800, and there was no such thing as "highway speed" going uphill, or even on level ground for that matter. Fully loaded and going uphill, I was doing 25-30MPH <em>on the highway,</em> and that was with a 2 mile running start to get my momentum up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 732712, member: 14668"] You are 100% wrong. Ergonomically speaking, they were every bit as bad as the P-600's they replaced. No power steering, no 3 pt belt, high step, small door, low-backed seat. They were built in the late 80's but they were obsolete when new and functionally no different from the crap we drove in the 60's. The only "improvements"... were that the shelves and doors were made of aluminum instead of wood, and they were fuel-injected instead of carbuerated. And as far how they pull hills....whats "wrong" with them is that they have a 4.3 liter V-6 with a governor on it. It makes around 125 horsepower on a good day. They are grossly underpowered, even moreso when fully loaded and pulling a trailer. I used to tow a TP-6 trailer with a P-800, and there was no such thing as "highway speed" going uphill, or even on level ground for that matter. Fully loaded and going uphill, I was doing 25-30MPH [I]on the highway,[/I] and that was with a 2 mile running start to get my momentum up. [/QUOTE]
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