Took the burb to a buddy's ranch yesterday to put it through some paces. It was the first opportunity to do any real off-road driving. I asked my buddy to take me to the toughest trails on his ranch. This is Central Texas, west of Llano, so there is a lot of hills, granite, loose rocks. It's been raining a lot here for the last couple weeks because of the hurricane, but there wasn't too much mud. My buddies jumped on quads and I chased them in the Suburban. I had no trouble keeping up with them, even when they opened the throttle. And there were places I could go that they couldn't. We had a blast and the Suburban performed flawlessly.
There was a road that my friend said hadn't been driven in a couple decades. It's steep, washed out, and covered in loose fist-sized granite rocks. They haven't been able to make it up it in their jeeps or the quads. I put the Suburban in low, locked the ARB and made it look easy. Lots of fun.
I did a fun little experiment. I put it into 4wlo, first gear, and dropped the clutch at the bottom of the hill. It climbed halfway up the hill without putting my foot on the gas before it stalled.
We took a lot of videos. I'll have to post them up on youtube when I have time. Here are a couple pics though.
