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General Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Jeffy on February 06, 2007, 03:00:55 PM
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I believe this area is called Five Fingers. The hill is VERY steep. Love the sound of those low gears and the little engine reving away. On and that's a Volvo C303. Those are what's being talked about in 6699's Jeep post.
Google Map (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=hollister+hills,+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=77.694388,113.90625&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=36.776774,-121.453085&spn=0.020178,0.047035&t=h&om=1&iwloc=A)
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wow those are some low gears... things look big and top heavy but they really go..
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most capable motorhome ive ever seen
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They are fairly small and pretty light, too. Larger then a Jeep but not as long as a suburban.
As for Motorhomes... Check these out; http://www.actionmobil.com/
They're nicer then most US made RV's too.
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Nice!
check out this portal axleCruiser video
http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Harlan_012007_GRB.WMV
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Nice!
check out this portal axleCruiser video
http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Harlan_012007_GRB.WMV
Looks like he's maybe 40-60:1. Lots of lurching, too. Is he running an auto? Turning his lockers on BEFORE getting stuck might have helped too. :whistle: It's hard to tell, but with those beadlocks, I'd drop the air pressure really low. I think it would have made it much more smoother with the additional traction.
This is one of the reasons I'd want to run an Atlas 4 or a Klune/Stak a final ratio in the 160-200:1 range with axle ratios in the 5.38 range. There's an older video of fourbangeryj at Johnson Valley walking up huge stuff that had 4.0L's having trouble. He's running a D20 with a Klune V 4:1.
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those things are pretty sweet, cool sound to em also. Would love to test drive one lol
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Nice!
check out this portal axleCruiser video
http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Harlan_012007_GRB.WMV
Looks like he's maybe 40-60:1. Lots of lurching, too. Is he running an auto? Turning his lockers on BEFORE getting stuck might have helped too. :whistle: It's hard to tell, but with those beadlocks, I'd drop the air pressure really low. I think it would have made it much more smoother with the additional traction.
This is one of the reasons I'd want to run an Atlas 4 or a Klune/Stak a final ratio in the 160-200:1 range with axle ratios in the 5.38 range. There's an older video of fourbangeryj at Johnson Valley walking up huge stuff that had 4.0L's having trouble. He's running a D20 with a Klune V 4:1.
If he's still running the stock 4.2 Diesel 1HZ, should be mated to an auto. Ha ha. Front lockers. I still get confused when and not to use them. Almost flipped the jeep over when I climbed right out of a bend in the trail onto a ledge on account of the front lockers turned on! Could't steer at all.
160-200:1 range. That's an insane reduction. I'm on about 80:1 and that makes 1st gear quite useless. Only use it like about 1% of the time... Well, then again, there are no rocks to play on over here....so what do I know?
303s stock are running 3.0 6cyl petrol whose power/torque output is about the same as our 4 bangers. These these are deceptively big too. With a wheelbase of 91 inches, it's shorter than our wranglers. overall length is 171 inches.
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Here's the video of FourbangerYJ's Jeep (http://malibuhigh.smmusd.org/facultypages/facultyhome/cary2/Caryhome/4wheeling/Calico_Videos/Scott.mpg) with 188:1 at Calico. :bow: