A friend of mine came over long, winding
hill, in "low" gear with her automatic. Even with her low
gear, and using trailer brakes, she still burned out truck brakes by bottom
of hill-too scary.
I once had a
VERY close call in a similar situation with my automatic. I stopped
about half way down this very steep and long section of curving road
to check on a friend's rig whose brakes had overheated. I discovered
when I stopped that mine were smelling and way too hot to continue. So
sat and cooled for awhile and made it down without trouble but too close for
comfort.
That same "hill"
fried the automatic on that same truck a couple of years later trying to get
my gooseneck over. I then quit using that road until I got my Ford
diesel manual and it just flattens it out, going up or down! Not a
problem!
Betty