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I've moved onto using a tablet full time for Nav with Gaia now. I actually had a very good experience running it on my phone for the last few years, but found myself not using my phone for other things like getting some pictures and videos. It just sat in the mount and I didn't want to be...

A little repair and rebuild on the Flippac. After a few trips to Moab, Utah with some hellacious wind storms, the struts needed a rework. I broke one of the factory plastic bracket on the roof and lost one of my new aluminum struts. I remade the strut brackets on the roof panel out of some...

I'm back.......isn't the internet great.....:ROFLMAO: I'll say it slow again. You cannot determine HP without knowing what torque is. So it can never be 'irrelevant'. WHERE the engine produces torque is the key. There has to be a balance between the two. That balance crosses over at...

....and you wonder why people don't want to play your silly games....because they are silly. Then you complain about me pulling real world automotive examples. :unsure: I picked 5252 very specifically. It only took you about two pages to start to catch on. Have fun with your tanks or whatever.

A power steering upgrade on the #LX45. I had been running a bone stock GM 5.3 LS truck pump since I built the vehicle. I have a 1.5" hydro assist ram, and when I first got things going, the steering was pretty decent. Here we are 3 years later and that stock pump is feeling a bit tired. It...

Yup, you just don't seem to get it. Cheers. Looks like you have some other people to annoy with your blinder view of how all this stuff works.

Correct, no suspension. The axle tube runs right though the middle of the frame. I strap to the tires of the vehicle. This allows the towee vehicle suspension to act like a huge damper over the trailer. This is what provides the 'suspension' action on my trailer, and it works amazingly well...

Nice edit of the post. I was quoting the post about racing, not using it as an example. Seeing as we are on an expedition forum, I would say range is pretty important to most people.

Your 'real world' examples are anything but in the automotive world. Horsepower = Torque x RPM / 5,252 I never said I didn't need to know RPM, I said I didn't really care about what happens over 5252, and I still don't. I named a bunch of common vehicles that have a hard time time turning...

Oh I can, I just don't like playing dumb theorecical games with the goal posts moved out so far it doesn't matter. The point about starting from a dead stop is about gearing, always has been. If you have to use shorter gear because your engine doesn't make good low to mid power you give up a...

When did they start racing those in sand again? Look at any rally race in the sand, especially long distance ones like Dakar, and every class has strong finishes or winners that are diesel. Strange....

Torque is a great metric for me when talking engines. Seeing how you can't even determine HP without knowing torque and rpm. I could care less typically what happens over 5252. Again, if the engine doesn't make enough torque to start in the gear you want your point about shifting is very moot...

My most un-project vehicle. It just works for what I need it to do. This thing is basically my daily driver that does double duty as a tow rig and home base for my other off-road toys. My new 'Dolly' trailer has been working very well. This is a custom built vehicle hauler I built a little...

If your transmission wants to downshift, you generally don't have enough power ( torque ). The downshift is a patch over the real issue. No, opinion doesn't change with a manual transmission. No issues as long as the vehicle has sufficient power, specifically meaty low and mid range torque to...

Exactly. Torque. I don't want to have to have the engine at 6000 rpm to do that. Is it fun, sure, I love hearing a V8 wing itself out. I want more low end torque ( and more torque in general ) to overcome the inertia of a heavy tire and wheel combo. The Jeep 3.6 is pretty terrible at that. The...

I'd pass on 5/16 winch line, even with a good rating. There is a durability component to running synthetic winch line for most people. For me, running 3/8 or 10mm winch line in most applications, even on something like a 6000lb winch, gives me a line that will last over a decade. Winch line...

I disagree, torque ( especially low end torque ) helps heaps in the sand, especially with big heavy air down tires. Nobody wants to HAVE to rev the engine to 6K rpm to make any real power. If you can't generate any meaningful power down low you can just stop thinking about that extra RPM as...

The #LX45 is now back in daily driver rotation after the brake line fitting debacle. There is nothing I 'have' to do at this point before my upcoming Rubicon trip, but there is always a long list of detail mods that I can chip away at!

Continuing with the 'detail' stuff. I finally found a rubber bumper off the shelf that works really good for a hood bumper. I had been using some closed cell sticky back foam, and that just didn't hold up. The glue also made a mess when it got hot. I didn't want to drill more holes, but these...

I'm on version 2.something now with my Tablet mount. I changed the angle to hopefully allow using the tablet camera as a dash cam of sorts. I never get enough video footage from trips. This also helped clean up some of the glare on the screen. I REALLY like being able to iterate on stuff like...