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Here are a couple of pics of the computer in our truck. The heightened roof of the Defender gave us plenty of space for the screen, which was a 17" Iiyama touch-screen LCD. The computer components were soft-mounted in the aluminium cabinet behind the screen. We didn't use a case at all! The...

IMO, this is the crux of the matter. Look at the pic below: Assume the whole bar is well attached to the frame rails at each side (otherwise, it's definitely not good for a snatch recovery!). There is a huge difference between pulling on the receiver mount in the middle of the cross-bar, and...

If you have the space for a "desktop" computer, rather than a laptop, it's got a couple of advantages for expedition use. Firstly, the screen and keyboard can be where you want them, not in a fixed position relative to each other. Secondly, you can replace or change individual components as...

Ooh, I like that idea! One of the best looking bodies on top of one of the best chassis ever...

No, if you ran 29.3's at the front, with the 4.56 diff, and 33's at the rear with the 5.13 diff, then there'd be no problem. Just means you'd have to carry two spare wheels! If you're running 31" tyres with your existing axles, then you'd need a 12.5% bigger tyre to get the same overall ratio...

What size tyres do you have on at the moment with the 4.56 ratio diffs? 33s matched with 5.13 diffs equates to a 29.3" tyre with 4.56 diffs (hence my flip comment about using different size tyres front and rear!)

Being a Good Samaritan has two big downsides - incurring damage to your own vehicle or equipment (or person), and getting sued for damage to someone else. I guess you weigh this up on a case by case basis, against the warm glow of having helped someone who needed it. Or, if one has a more...

The question is how? How does using the brakes create any traction? The brake acts on the spinning wheel to create a torque (momentary or otherwise) of x Newton.metres. Since the brake is working on both wheels, the force required to overcome the brake on the other wheel is also x N.m. So no...

It shouldn't be too hard to make up a pair of adapters, I'd have thought. They'll need to be at least as thick as the wheel-bolts though, so that's quite wide. How does the track of the G axle compare with that of the Jeep? You could run 29.3 inch tyres up front and 33's in the rear... :)

Sorry, but this is just wrong. You lose no power at all by changing wheel diameter. And other thing being equal, a change from 29" to 33" will require only 14% more torque to turn the wheel. You will need the same power to drive at the same road speed, but your wheels will be turning 14% more...

Absolutely! A figure of eight bend is a strong knot, but will still lose ~20% of the rope strength. (A bowline can lose 40%!). The strength of a knot is determined by the severity of the first curve in the most heavily loaded segment of the knot. As you (meant to) say, the magazine or similar...

Looking at the comparative figures of the two engines, it seems to me that you will be way better off with 33" tyres, even if you kept the same gearbox. Your increase in power and torque is proportionally greater than the increase in wheel diameter. So your new effective torque in every gear...

Yes, I've had this discussion several times, and it's never uncovered any explanation! However, I must disagree with you about BTM when applied to LSDs (of the torque-biasing type). That mechanism is well understood. Where an open diff keeps the same torque on each output shaft, a torque...

What I've observed over the years is that the success of any recovery varies inversely with the number of people involved, once there are more than 3... I've done a few recoveries where there is a crowd of onlookers (one involved a mini-bus which had run off the road into a ditch, and all the...

I'll be watching with interest! My 460 model 300GD is also much in need of more power, so I might consider something similar.

Yes, it is :) If you are interested in the details, there's more on our website - http://www.expeditionoverland.com

No, absolutely, I understand how an ABS-based traction control system can increase traction by "artificially" raising the torque on any wheel that is spinning, and not applying braking to the other wheel(s). I also understand how using the footbrake or handbrake (Brake Throttle Modulation) on a...

I noted some problems with this explanation further back in this thread. Brakes hold all the wheels, so where does the additional traction come from? So far, I've yet to hear a convincing hypothesis about how brake-throttle modulation could work. Also, no explanation of why a controlled...

6x4 will give you the advantages of a hugely increased load capacity, but it will be barely adequate in most off-road situations. A 6 wheeler will lift wheels as soon as you get onto any very uneven terrain. A 4-wheeler will generally have only one wheel in the air at a time (although it may...

I certainly don't disagree with your advice about the fairlead location, but I'm interested that you say it's more important for synthetic line to feed straight. Is this because the synthetic is more expensive, and therefore it's more important to be kind to it, or do you think that synthetic is...