Okay Lucky8, some questions and comments here for you:
Ok Bring them
1. Curious, did you try to use hill decent?
Yes multiple times. I find that in good traction situations the hill decent is fantastic.
I am just guessing, but I'll bet you stood on the brake pedal and just slid down the hill, right?
Nathan that is not correct. I wrote “ standing on my pedal with 2 feet” to help convey my point on how slippery the hill was.
Where there any other opportunities to try the hill decent? If you use the cruise control speed buttons, you can dial down the hill decent to be as slow as you want. It's noisy and makes unpleasant vibes as the internal hub mounted pads grab and grind along with the discs, but it does actually work remarkably well when the rate of decent is dialed way down, and it allows you to maintain steering input!
Have you ever tried hill decent on ice? Not a little snow but shear ice “glass" so to speak. I have and it don’t work. I could get the truck to slow down better with the human touch on the brakes Vs the computer. If I pushed to hard on the pedal the ABS would kick in and it was back to that game. The issue I saw with the hill decent on ice and very slippery mud is the truck would try to keep the wheels spinning at the same speed but in doing so it would allow the truck to increase in speed. If I would have trussed the Hill decent and tried to make the left I think 3 things could have happened.
1 The truck would have somehow found traction and defied the laws of Physics and made the turn.
2 The front would have continued to push and slide as the hill decent and ABS went bananas until the tree stopped it.
3 The front would find a bit of traction and start to bring the noes over but the back would not be able to make the turn and the D3 would slide sideways into the tree.
I did not want to try my luck with 1 and my “gut" said 3 was going to be the outcome if I tried to make the turn so I did my best to brake and point the sliding noes toward the tree.
3. Do you have a rear locker? If so, taking the winch line and attaching it to the front recovery point (way better than the wheel!), while going in reverse will cause the rear end to pirouette around nice and pretty. (
Bill Burke taught me that trick).
That is a good trick but you are failing to understand how slippery the conditions were. I needed that buggy on 37s jammed against a tree to stop me from sliding down hill. Reverse was not an option . I even tried reverse with the monster Series pulling me and I just pulled him down with me.
So to recap spinning the tires in any direction made the D3 go down hill.
It seems to me that you still haven't figured out how to use your special program modes to extract the maximum performance. Don't rely on the Easy Button. You've got to think too.
Im sure there is more to learn about the truck but please don’t underestimate the conditions I’m willing to push the D3 through. Look around at the crowd of trucks its with before you judge that I’m not doing something correct.
