So, a significantly smaller operation than UMTRA Read more

Needles district of Canyonlands, Utah. Read more

Until that oil bath timing belt on the back of the engine gets changed to a maintenance free oil bath timing chain...that 3.0 Duramax is off the table for me and many others. It may be smooth and quiet and powerful, but its a ticking timebomb of ruinously expensive planned service. Read more

people’s time are resources. I agree. Read more

250k doesn’t seem as outrageous as it used to. My daily has 356,000 and my wife’s daily is at 211,000. Aside from the usual wear and tear issues (mostly interior) I don’t see a reason either of them can’t do another 250,000 Read more

Its the same situation at the Needles outpost

Are they pirates? Read more

Well, if very much depends on what the cutoff is. Highway vehicles? Military vehicles? Commercial vehicles? etc.

Everything has to be a trend I guess. This one is particularly dumb. Look people, if you want to feel belonging to something, join a club and stop making humanity look bad. Read more

I’ve tried the ones in the GX and I admit to no shame having massaging seats on the trail. Its WONDERFUL. Read more

This is the least intense of these trails (the ones I’ve done anyway) but the last 1.5 miles is still no place for a Subaru. I don’t think the original poster on reddit did those miles. Elephant hill?  Yeah a Subaru would be smoking its CVT at the first hairpin. Read more

Low range is specifically required on the NPS page Read more

It was on the old oppo, but that died, so I republished to new oppo Read more

You got it. The trouble with the brake technique is that it applies friction equally so you don’t get much help, but I have used it at least once and it worked. It works better if you have an LSD. Read more

This isn’t correct either. An open differential will ALWAYS split torque evenly. 1:1. 50/50. If you changed torque to power it works. an open differential will send all the power produced to the wheel with least traction, but both wheels will be getting equal torque. But since the good traction wheel isn’t moving...no… Read more

The SAE has actually issued a technical paper on this for guidance. J2807. The trouble is that 4action maxwheeldrive is more cool sounding than on-demand synchronous active AWD Read more

They didn’t really “nail the guy” at all. He made it in and out without issue and later was told he did a bad from photographic evidence (my guess is from another guest who took a picture and showed a ranger or a ranger looping the trail.) He didn’t cause anyone any trouble at all. Read more

yes, a Cyberturd should be allowed on this trail, even though it technically doesn’t qualify owing to its lack of 4WD (by the standards of the park) and its lack of low range. Read more

Not really. At least not naturally. You could build an EV with similar wheel torque as a 4wd with low range, but its not a given. Read more

EV’s are in a weird space right now. The marketing would have you believe that they are superior to old tech off road. More motors = more better, right? The TLDR for the very long and boring version of this argument is that a single power source, proper gearing, and no interaxle differentials (fully locked) is still… Read more