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Is everyone 100% sure this is a tire problem and not a wheel problem?. Admittedly I’ve read a fair number of similar posts re imbalance issues with this particular tire. However, I had imbalance symptoms practically from day with stock 395/85R20 XZLs on factory Lemmerz steel wheels. I got a full...

Suggest you post on Benzworld. I have a U500 which has a conventional driveshaft in the open rather than a torque tube. On some vehicles, the driveshaft can be unbolted and moved out of the way, then a big staked nut removed. Then the yoke can be pulled out, which has the machined surface that...

Agile does have one really cool thing they so: I ordered a standard Starlink antenna with the other standard items, and had it delivered to them. They cut the antenna out of the mount, install it into 1.5” thick weatherproof panel 22x13.6” that looks like small white solar panel. Wifi...

Having portals, is retrofitting CTIS a possibility?

https://www.seabridge-tours.de/en/home/ Don’t need a customs broker, shipping with above is easy & painless, leave it registered at home. See my PM. And people shouldn’t pass on the right ANYWHERE. Except RHD countries. And people should drive in the right lane as much as possible. It’s American...

If it’s not a 70 series…. I gave up on Toyota USA in 79 when the BJ40 appeared in Canada but not US. They’re worthless IMHO. Too bad they didn’t continue with 70s (other than the mine pickups) in Canada; I’d have a Troopy with 2H or 1HZ etc in my front yard.

1) If the mud has a bottom, the ground clearance of about 480mm to the lowest point gets it through mud. It is NOT a tundra buggy. It might handle bottomless wet terrain marginally with the largest tire option for the vehicle, 495/70R24 Michelin XM47. Currently the usual 395/85R20. 2) potholes...

Roger on the turning circle; my 4x4 U500 “turns on a dime” (relatively). The white camper 6x6 vehicle that was in my front yard all winter is a MAN. When we traveled to Morocco with 2 other new Unicats in 2006 for a Unicat sponsored “break-in” trip, a 6x6 like this one had to make a multipoint...

Versus 20000kg on 6x6 vs. 12300 on 4x4, tires have similar footprint. And the 6x6 doesn’t contain the mobile shop, parts depot and recovery equipment in the 4x4. But to paraphrase Stalin, “6x6 has a quality all its own”, as far as traction.

My reasoning was & is: easier to retreat along a route you’ve already made, therefore the rear is a 15k Superwinch, front a 20k DP. Both hydraulic. And since even at the beginning I knew rear weight would be an issue, w/cable the rear is ~125 lb lighter than the front.

If you’re going to make a multi continent world tourer out of it, stick with 16s if they’ll fit. 7.50-16 (bias or radial) is still a super common size in Latin America, Africa and many parts of Asia. And 9.00-16/R16 is a fantastic offroad size for 3/4 tons if it can handle the gearing change...

You can catch a glimpse of my rear winch on the third picture. The first 2 summarize weight reduction/redistribution project. When the camper was built, it had a FischerPanda 1cyl diesel generator for the AC. I deleted AC, mainly because it was an unreliable 110v built for class C type RV POC. I...

From my recollection only, the angles are supposed to be equal and opposite (and of course minimized) for lowest probability of severe vibration. In particular, your differential pinion is angled up quite a bit relative to the transfer case output. The usual way of adjusting that is a wedge at...

Pretty sure none of the recent decade or so no 550/5500 trucks have a rear true locker (i.e. NoSpin) even available. Although they’re easy to get for FMTV axles. Which is odd since to my knowledge the military never ever installed them (is there a SpecOps version of the LMTV, that operates solo...

That was interesting. The recovery situation was somewhat exacerbated by lack of in the ER: 1) very low gears. I wonder if one of those short 2.7:1 planetary Black Boxes has the torque and GVW rating to work in an ER drivetrain. You saw how much he had to rev engine to get torque converter to do...