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Offline Jeffy

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Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« on: February 06, 2007, 03:00:55 PM »
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.

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 06:23:00 PM »
wow those are some low gears... things look big and top heavy but they really go..
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2007, 06:35:48 PM »
most capable motorhome ive ever seen

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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2007, 07:52:39 PM »
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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Re: Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2007, 06:48:51 AM »
Nice!

check out this portal axleCruiser video

http://www.4x4grace.com/tiredirongrb/Harlan_012007_GRB.WMV

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Re: Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2007, 01:17:17 PM »
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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Re: Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2007, 06:23:31 PM »
those things are pretty sweet, cool sound to em also. Would love to test drive one lol

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Re: Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2007, 08:11:17 PM »
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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Re: Volvo's at Hollister Hills ORV
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 08:36:29 PM »
Here's the video of FourbangerYJ's Jeep with 188:1 at Calico.  :bow:
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