oneduckman
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Thanks for sharing that amazing trip. I could watch your videos everyday!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing that amazing trip. I could watch your videos everyday!!!!!!!
On that big cinder hill climb was it just that the transmission refused to downshift or something more complicated? My experience so far has been that everything works fine in Manual mode.
Seemed to have been something more complicated. Being that there were multiple JL's, everyone got tried something a bit different and for some, more than once. Again, not everyone had the problem. Both Synergy and I made it up without the throttle cutting out.
Has anyone ever seem this problem in Manual mode?
Did anyone try to climb that hill slowly in M2 or M3?
Has this been reported to Jeep? Do you know anything 13_Gecko_rubi?
Also, in the video Mel was hypothesizing that it had something to do with the pitch angle, if I heard it right. But we’ve seen other videos with much steeper climbs without such problems (eg Hummer Hill in Moab).
Has anyone ever seem this problem in Manual mode?
Did anyone try to climb that hill slowly in M2 or M3?
Hummer Hill is not a good comparison because it is about 1/16th the length of the hill in the video, the cinders hill is actually steeper throughout the first half the climb, Hummer Hill is typically crawled from the start to the top in a low gear without ever needing to shift gears, all four tires never break traction at one time, usually the front tires squeal a small amount as the front end unloads it’s weight. I’m sure if anyone on the JLX event, or any place within the Offroad sphere of influence, has Jeep’s ear it’s Mel. Wayoflife has also become pretty close to the Jeep engineers over the years. Not to mention, those guys watch these videos too. That I know for a fact.
You know, Cindy pointed out something to me that I think has a lot of merit. Both Loren and Tom were running 40" tires and on aftermarket axles that were geared with 5.38's and both had throttle pull out on them. Both Dave and I were able to make it to the top but both of us were running 37's with factory 4.10's. Mel was running 37's and factory 4.10's too but if I recall, he said he initially tried making the run up in 4HI. In a nut shell, perhaps the problem on the hill had something to do with gear ratio and/or tire size - maybe they were winding out? Hard to say for sure but maybe something worth chewing on.
As I noted on wayalife, another great vid! Thanks for sharing and reminding me what this addiction is all about and why I now have a new JL.
Need to make the time to get out more. Easier said than done, but will be seeing you soon at least.
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