Since there is some interest from different parties about the WRT I'll put some more do's and don't here.
Remove your jacks if they hang too low or your camper is a bit on the wide side.
If you have air bags, forget them or deflate to almost zero, they are counter productive in this situation.
Beef up your rear suspension with either extra leaf spring, over spring and or over load extension or all three. This is to control the bouncing and rocking roll of you rig.
If you rig has a shallow approach/departure angle you'll be leaving some of your rig on the trail.
Have enough fuel to get out the same way you came in, the trail could wash out or be flooded over and this could happen over night.
Tire air pressure, I run at 35 psi and have B.F. Goodrich 285/70/17 KO2, adjusting tire pressure will be a on going thing for your rig till you get it dialed in.
Loosen tie downs, this is to keep them for tearing out or pulling down the bottom of you POC.
Another reason for having plenty of fuel especially the gassier rigs. The Nation Park list the WRT as only 100 miles,that's from the trail head to the park bountary on the Green River side. I measure it from the nearest fuel station back on SR 191 and SR313 to the trail head to the park bountary on the Green River side from that point on the Mineral Road all the way back to SR313 to the fuel station at SR313 and SR191. That's about 35+100+30+30= 195 est miles.
A must do, bring plenty of battery power for those cameras
Remove your jacks if they hang too low or your camper is a bit on the wide side.
If you have air bags, forget them or deflate to almost zero, they are counter productive in this situation.
Beef up your rear suspension with either extra leaf spring, over spring and or over load extension or all three. This is to control the bouncing and rocking roll of you rig.
If you rig has a shallow approach/departure angle you'll be leaving some of your rig on the trail.
Have enough fuel to get out the same way you came in, the trail could wash out or be flooded over and this could happen over night.
Tire air pressure, I run at 35 psi and have B.F. Goodrich 285/70/17 KO2, adjusting tire pressure will be a on going thing for your rig till you get it dialed in.
Loosen tie downs, this is to keep them for tearing out or pulling down the bottom of you POC.
Another reason for having plenty of fuel especially the gassier rigs. The Nation Park list the WRT as only 100 miles,that's from the trail head to the park bountary on the Green River side. I measure it from the nearest fuel station back on SR 191 and SR313 to the trail head to the park bountary on the Green River side from that point on the Mineral Road all the way back to SR313 to the fuel station at SR313 and SR191. That's about 35+100+30+30= 195 est miles.
A must do, bring plenty of battery power for those cameras
c.traveler2 wrote:maxum1989 wrote:
c.traveler2
What would you estimate the widest camper that could fit the tight spots on the trail?
I know your 815 is a fairly narrow camper. My camper is 94" wide. You think I would make it through?
Also, I watched the videos and you mention you had cell coverage. The whole way? Just spots here and there? I ask because I am just thinking about the what ifs of needing help on the trail. How is that handled without a way of contacting anyone? It seemed pretty quiet out there and pretty remote. Help would be pretty far away and that's after actually contacting someone. Thoughts?
mellomike was on our 2016 trip and he has a North Star Laredo SC, he made it by in some of the tightest sections. He asked me to come along as a guide for his first time adventure on the WRT. as far as cell coverage as long as you could see the La Sal Mountains your pretty good with a cell signal after that satille phones, I have Verizon and I believe Mike had At&T. If you take a look at a trail map you'll find it is some what arrow head shape with a number of hiking trail going up the plateau above.
If you want you could do part of the trail and go back out the way you came in, have plenty of fuel.
TomP40 wrote:
I have a very similar setup as you, 2007 F-350 PSD,CC,SB and a 97 Lance 3000 on it.
My question is how big is your gas tank?
How has your truck treated you overall as far as reliability?
I've only put 17k mi on mine since I bought it but will be doing some long trips in the near future.
What kind of speeds were you doing on the Trail?
Thanks,
Tom
I have the original 38 gal fuel tank(diesel), plus I had a auxiliary 40 gal tank installed..total 78 gals.
I have 143,070 miles on the 6.0 PSD, these are the things I had to fix or replace due to being worn out or broken. Do keep than eye on the oil cooler if it goes so does your engine.
1) turbo...2) oil cooler (clogging) this was discovered during a by choice upgrade on the egr cooler and water pump upgrade (Bullet Proof products) also a set of dummy plugs. This was done before our 2015 Summer Journey covering over 16,000 miles other than the above items its been oil change and other fluids.
The WRT is self imposing trail, it will let you know if you going too fast, some sections it was crawling and others we got up to 15-20 mph.
maxum1989 wrote:
c.traveler2
What would you estimate the widest camper that could fit the tight spots on the trail?
I know your 815 is a fairly narrow camper. My camper is 94" wide. You think I would make it through?
Also, I watched the videos and you mention you had cell coverage. The whole way? Just spots here and there? I ask because I am just thinking about the what ifs of needing help on the trail. How is that handled without a way of contacting anyone? It seemed pretty quiet out there and pretty remote. Help would be pretty far away and that's after actually contacting someone. Thoughts?
mellomike was on our 2016 trip and he has a North Star Laredo SC, he made it by in some of the tightest sections. He asked me to come along as a guide for his first time adventure on the WRT. as far as cell coverage as long as you could see the La Sal Mountains your pretty good with a cell signal after that satille phones, I have Verizon and I believe Mike had At&T. If you take a look at a trail map you'll find it is some what arrow head shape with a number of hiking trail going up the plateau above.
If you want you could do part of the trail and go back out the way you came in, have plenty of fuel.
