[myoung84]

Did a few mods on Friday. First was the tint, went with 10% all around and a 5% windshield brow. It's perfect for what I wanted. Still a bit hard to see when backing a trailer at night with the windows up, but otherwise it's fine. I also installed my new Bedrug, RollBak bed cover and drop in AEM filter from the old truck, and stole the Moes 87mm throttle body from the Jeep. Sorry for the we pics, it's been raining non-stop for 3 days. Hopefully my tires will be here today...

Then Saturday I hitched up the trailer with 300 miles on the clock. Had to do some porch work for my mother-in-law so needed the trailer to haul some wood. Trailer is about 900 lbs and I had probably 300 lbs loaded on it. It was barely noticeable on my 100 mile round trip. The truck did down shift on about half of the hills but I absolutely love the quick seamless shifts of the 8 speed. The old 5 speed that I had in my 2010 1500 and even the 6 speed in the Power Wagon allowed you to lose a lot of speed up a hill before dropping a gear. The 8 speed drops to 7th gear before you start losing speed, the way it should be. The Power Wagon on heavy 35s was terrible about dropping 4-5 MPH before down shifting then you're trying to play catch up and it ends up dropping to 4th, then you're going 4 MPH over what the cruise was set at when you got to the top of a hill (short Oklahoma rolling hills).