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| View Poll Results: If you had to choose two of the following, which would you, chose and why | |||
| Center of Gravity, Ground Clearance |     | 10 | 62.50% |
| Center of Gravity, Low Gear Ratio |    | 2 | 12.50% |
| Ground Clearance, Low Gear Ratio |    | 4 | 25.00% |
| Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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10-10-2004, 05:25 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: CSU, CO
Posts: 290
|  If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ratio
I know with a Clod you could easily have all three. But I have a shafty so please if you must talk about Clod superiorality at least answer my question.
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10-10-2004, 05:36 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
Posts: 5,512
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra
Actually on a Clod you can't have the ground clearance. Maybe under the center of the chassis but under diff clearance the Clods loose big time. Even a Jugg/TXT axle has more under diff clearance than a Clod.
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10-10-2004, 05:38 PM
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| bendforthebone Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Jamul
Posts: 680
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra
i chose low cg and high ground clearence
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10-10-2004, 05:40 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
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| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra Quote:
I vote COG and Clearance. Gearing isn't THAT important, (thank you lathe motors) | |
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10-10-2004, 05:52 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra Quote:
Dave.... you are so right on with this! BTW, Did you ever get my PM to you? | |
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10-10-2004, 05:56 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
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| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra Quote:
 I was drinking too  | ||
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10-10-2004, 06:13 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
Posts: 5,512
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra Quote:
Nope, not yet.... don't you know that drinking and the internet don't go together Re-send it.. if you can remember what you wrote  | |
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10-10-2004, 06:17 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: CSU, CO
Posts: 290
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra
Thanks for the replys. I didn't know that Clods don't have much under axle clearance, I have X axles. Also toyofast have you shipped my free stickers yet? |
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10-10-2004, 06:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
Posts: 5,512
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra Quote:
Ahhh.... I'll go ask my wife if she's done her work yet... I had assumed so but you know women  | |
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10-10-2004, 07:06 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2004 Location: Neosho
Posts: 301
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra
I cant vote but if the choice was there I would go with low CG and low gearing
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10-12-2004, 06:40 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Lincolnshire, UK
Posts: 71
| Re: If you have to chose between: CoG, Clearance, or Gear Ra
LOL, I started out with stacks of clearance only to find the CoG was too high. I sorted that out by inserting lead rings in the tyres and wrapping lead sheet around the lower axles. This sorted out the CoG quite well but made the vehicle much heavier so I needed more grunt to pull it up steep climbs so had to then fit very low reduction unit! I think good clearance is important or you just get hung up on rocks etc all the time. Not much point in having a low CoG if you spend the entire time stuck on the first small rock! The super low gearing enables you to drive slowly enough to carefully place the tyres to avoid problems as well though. I have 4" of under chassis clearance on a 12" wheelbase vehicle, shaft driven. BTW I used independant/wishbone axles for my crawler but locked them in the max droop position to form live axles but with the advantage of much greater under diff clearance than on conventional axles. These are then suspensded from the chassis using 4 link arrangement. I only run 2.2" tyres (IMEX Swamp Dawgs 4.75" dia) and I still have more under axle clearance than a Clod on 6" tyres  |
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