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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:07 pm
by rockcrawler31
i see where you're coming from, and it is an exercise for my own curiosity. I don't really know what you drive or have driven, but an example of my own experience watching Rover1's GQ happily drive along a straight but severly sidesloped creekbed while i had to verry tentatively follow and take weird lines because of all the hype surrounding troopcarriers, and the way it felt at the time. Just curious if it really is that bad, and if you have a reference point (albeit in a static postion) you can start to work out your limitations when you go off track allowing for the various dynamic forces.
hopefully
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:12 pm
by rockcrawler31
i'm also starting to get the idea that i'm not the only one who has been wondering this.
besides, it's one thing to go out and learn it's limits by driving when you own a dedicated rock rasher. But it's something altogether different when you'de like it to keep some resemblance to a daily driver. Besides, zook drivers can push a rolled zook over by hand by themselves:D I can't even move my truck around on the flat ground.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:24 pm
by toughnut
Two things I'd suggest is to make sure you have a sterile cabin and to be inside the vehicle so you can actually feel what happens to the seat of your pants. Hopefully they'll stay clean
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:26 pm
by rockcrawler31
have already ordered the plastic seat liners and incontinence pads
may need to get air freshener too.
note to self. when i can touch the dirt outside with my shoulder from within the cab, time to back it up a bit
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:33 pm
by dogbreath_48
rockcrawler31 wrote:have already ordered the plastic seat liners and incontinence pads
may need to get air freshener too.
note to self. when i can touch the dirt outside with my shoulder from within the cab, time to back it up a bit
yeah look i'd do it with the windows closed!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:42 pm
by rockcrawler31
heaths pic.
funnay
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/ ... sagirl.jpg
goddammit. i still can't get the pic to show in the text box
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:48 pm
by lay80n
Try taking the [img] preix off it, as its a link not an image.
Layto....
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:50 pm
by rockcrawler31
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:51 pm
by toughnut
How about this
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:53 pm
by rockcrawler31
yeah, thats it.
how do it do that. i copied the bit from the img tab in photobucket but all it does is print the address with a img prefix
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:56 pm
by rockcrawler31
did he end up doing any damage? and how did he get it over/back up.
i'd be too scared to do in front of an audience.
it's gonna be bad enough having the old man shaking his head in disbelief. He can't understand why i wasn't too worried about bending my bullbar or getting track carnage.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:11 pm
by lay80n
No damage, just winched it back over.
Layto....
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:36 pm
by CanberraMav
Use a forklift truck.
flip the truck over using the forks under your sliders/steps.
tie the top of the vehicle to the bars on the forklift so your truck cant go completely over.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:40 pm
by rover1
CanberraMav wrote:Use a forklift truck.
flip the truck over using the forks under your sliders/steps.
tie the top of the vehicle to the bars on the forklift so your truck cant go completely over.
and make sure the brakes on the forklift work.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:47 pm
by rockcrawler31
hmmm. a little hard to explain two forklift shaped holes in the floor pan when the brakes fail
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:22 pm
by mule75
one mate had his on its side and when he went to start it when it was on all four he hydro'd it from a bit of oil leaking past his rings.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:22 pm
by Wooders
Really to get a more meaningful result you should lift the tyres/wheels - not the body.
Otherwise the "dangling weight" would give in accurate answer. Plus the effects of your springs pushing your truck up & over sooner.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:06 pm
by GRINCH
CanberraMav wrote:Use a forklift truck.
flip the truck over using the forks under your sliders/steps.
tie the top of the vehicle to the bars on the forklift so your truck cant go completely over.
make sure the car doesnt pull the forklift on top of it on its way over
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:08 pm
by stoo2
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:11 pm
by RockyF75
Just go crawling on wombatholes, nice and slowly... when you feel one wheel pop up, your getting there. If 2 wheels diagonally opposite bob up and down and give a sea-saw affect, congrats, your prolly 70-80% of the way there, depending on how high the wheels are off the ground on either end...... one thing I can say from watching a flop, is that its a REALLY REALLY thin line between lookin like it might not be really steady, and o crap, its gooone
I reckon just do the AAMI add, and bubble wrap your car, and go ramp/flex on sum wombatholes till it either goes really damn close, or flops
(this is what I mean by wombatholes, dunno if its common lingo or not
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/R ... G_1737.jpg)
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:05 am
by 84ZOOKSTA
Oh the good old express van.
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:00 am
by MQ080
grimbo wrote:what do you actually hope to prove. Tipping a vehicle sideways in a controlleed mannner on a flat surface means nothing when you are trying to climb a slippery side slope, or driving through a rutted section of track. You can tip a car over alot easier than you think but sometimes you can also lean a car over alot more than you think. What it comes down to is you need to know when your truck feels like going over. This can only be gained from real time driving experience.
This is spot on. Enough tippy troopy talk already!
