Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Maybe not ideal for your daily driver, but a pretty cool mod from another forum.

What forum any specs/cost on that?

MORE INFO DAMMIT!

LOL - it even has proper sliders by the looks of it... i wonder if it is true skid steer or if the front tracks turn like traditional steering? Anyone know?

benhl wrote:LOL - it even has proper sliders by the looks of it... i wonder if it is true skid steer or if the front tracks turn like traditional steering? Anyone know?

id say just by lookin at the pictures, that it just drives off the normal axles as per usual. Looks like the drive sprocket hooks up the wheelstuds or sumthin similar maybe........

you can get the conversion of ebay in america, have seen them there a few times

nayto wrote: id say just by lookin at the pictures, that it just drives off the normal axles as per usual. Looks like the drive sprocket hooks up the wheelstuds or sumthin similar maybe........

yep thats right!

i saw them ages ago there was a vid on youtube of the USA army testing them against normal tyre in the mud the Hummer on tyres went about 3metres and on those track thingys it went all the way throw must have been hundreds of metres, I can't remember what they are called though

mattracks is one company that makes em

www.mattracks.com

Troopy is a NSW vehicle... poor mans Kaspora for the ski fields probably

The thread was "tracked troopy" and was at 4wdmonthly's forum
www.4wdmonthly.com.au/forum
One poster stated they're $1100 per wheel, but apparently it's $11000 per wheel ($44K)

http://www.mattracks.com/

Saw one when I was down at perisher last year, wasnt the latest troopy though.

Also saw a couple refrigerated 4ish tonne trucks with the conversion. The track on the rear wheels were about 1800long but the ones on the steer were about the same as on that troopy.

never saw one driving on the snow though.

They would look good on my sierra soft top

However ive been advised the 1.3lt engine has too much torque for em

They are indeed mattracks and there are at least 2 privately owned roopies and a jackaroo plus the ambos that have been fitted with them this year as far as I know.

I work year round for Perisher and we've fitted them to one of our troopies as a test. I can confirm that they are much closer to the $11K per wheel than they are the $1K.

Charlottes Pass also have a refrigerated pantec and a bus fitted with them.

They bolt straight to the hubs and are plumbed into the power steering box to allow your to "bow" the front tracks at slow speeds to reduce the pressure on your steering linkages.

The jackaroo was the first fatality yesterday just outside my office - I'll post pics in the morning of a drivers side front collapse!

And they definitely don't make the vehicles unstoppable... I've seen at least 2 get bogged and need to be recovered already!

This is the vid I think you were lookin for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mnv-T9-J-g

i wonder what the top highway speed for these things is....

macca81 wrote:i wonder what the top highway speed for these things is....

40MPH ---> 60KPH

ZookStock wrote:Why bother do this 44k conversion in australia naymore??

It's not like we get the thick powder anymore, I'd like to see how quick they sink in Northern canada where 4 foot of pow can fall overnight!!!

I think you've misunderstood the real attraction of these for the australian resorts - if we had reliable deep snow then it would be worth having decicated oversnow vehicles but the snow cover is only adequate for about 8-10 weeks of the season to not do substantial damage to the tracks and to the roads.

The appeal is that these tracks will work in the snow whether it's 4 feet deep or whether it's just slush. And you get to fit them to a vehicle that you can use for the rest of the year instead of having to find somewhere to store.

Will post pics of the Jackaroo when I get back from skiing.... lifts just opened and it's the first fine day after a week of snow storms!