TRAVEL JOURNAL INDEX > Faking It

We’ve been spending a lot of time in the mountains lately and the hills combined with mid-summer temperatures have added up to some big hot climbs. Now that we're towing the Airstream, our transmission temperature has begun to spike up as high as 250 degrees, which is hotter than we’d like to see, so we switched to Amsoil synthetic transmission fluid which should keep the transmission temperature in check. While we were upgrading we decided to switch to Amsoil synthetic motor oil as well, which will allow us to extend our oil change interval up to 25,000 miles. Hey, when your truck is your home you've got to stay on top of the maintenance!

Compromising position? No, Eric is just busy changing the transmission fluid and oil.

This post originally appeared on our Airstream blog.