"off-roading" - frame twisting in a C
What is the maximum diagonal height difference that the suspension will accommodate without twisting the frame? Found a great boon-docking site, but the "jeep trail" road was off-camber and rose ab...
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Good old fashioned classic link tire chains (NOT those with cables) work about the best one can expect in mud when used on both the driving wheels and the steering wheels. I believe hunters use fully chained up 4x4 pickups a lot for going where they want to go on really bad roads.
I once went hunting with a friend in a fully chained Ford 4X4 pickup up into Utah's Uinta mountains. By the time we got up to the higher altitudes where we hunted, the snow was so deep that it was plowing up over the hood as we moved forward uphill. It made a believer out of me on what a fully chain 4X4 pickup was capable of on foul roads ... wow!
FWIW, in that YouTube video link I gave above I can't quite tell if that Class C rig is chained up or not. It's hard to believe that rig could have done what it did without them. If it wasn't chained, then it must have been pure weight (probably 2000 lbs or more on each rear tire), plus maybe mud tires on the rear, that squeaked out just enough traction to make it on that muddy Nevada desert road. Also in the video I couldn't be sure ... but it didn't look like that Class C was modified into a 6X6. I didn't look like there was a differential in the front, but it was difficult to see clearly in that low resolution video.
I once went hunting with a friend in a fully chained Ford 4X4 pickup up into Utah's Uinta mountains. By the time we got up to the higher altitudes where we hunted, the snow was so deep that it was plowing up over the hood as we moved forward uphill. It made a believer out of me on what a fully chain 4X4 pickup was capable of on foul roads ... wow!
FWIW, in that YouTube video link I gave above I can't quite tell if that Class C rig is chained up or not. It's hard to believe that rig could have done what it did without them. If it wasn't chained, then it must have been pure weight (probably 2000 lbs or more on each rear tire), plus maybe mud tires on the rear, that squeaked out just enough traction to make it on that muddy Nevada desert road. Also in the video I couldn't be sure ... but it didn't look like that Class C was modified into a 6X6. I didn't look like there was a differential in the front, but it was difficult to see clearly in that low resolution video.
