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What is the best way to off-road in a manual TJ?
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When I was in India, they were amazed that we had automatics and I would get asked how one would drive with an auto. They also were amazed that we had guns and didn't understand why we had big gasoline powered vehicles and why our vehicles cost so much.
This thread has changed gears (HA!) from a how to question, into what and who does what, which is better and some governments messing with things thrown in. While I understand both sides, this seems like political opposites for trannys. Transmissions! Get your minds out of the gutters. Now I am wondering if @matrixman303 has read any of this thread and decided to avoid it or if he has other stuff (work, family, whatever) keeping him so busy he hasn't checked back in yet. Maybe a bit of both, the possibilities endless.
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This is how you clear Obstacles with a Manley Transmission
I'm pretty sure if you have a Rubicon and it is in 4LO you can start the engine without pushing the clutch in. I'm only pretty sure because I just learned my clutch lockout safety switch does not work.....
I believe much smaller displacement engines due to Gas (petrol) prices in other countries was the reason they didn't favour automatics like US, move forward to today and its hard to even buy a manual 4x4.
I watched a YT vid some time ago proving auto 4x4 was in many ways superior off road to manual 4x4.
My last 3 work 4x4,s have been Auto.
I watched a YT vid some time ago proving auto 4x4 was in many ways superior off road to manual 4x4.
My last 3 work 4x4,s have been Auto.
I've been to a couple countries where they tax displacement or some type of penalty, so almost everything is turbo diesel that's 4x4 and pretty much all luxury are too. And costs tend to be a big deal so you don't see drastic design changes in vehicles and almost everything is manual trans to keep price and maintenance low (it's expensive to change styles and then you don't have mechanics that work on the autos), which also ends up to a fuel price thing and in those areas with smaller vehicles a manual is lightweight and shorter than a 10 speed auto transmission and diesel isn't taxed more than petrol so diesel is cheaper and you end up with rugged 4x4s with 30 mpg or better. Though in India you couldn't do more than like 55 mph, so MPG was crazy high.
Interesting. India is a huge country, is 55 mph like a national speed limit there? I'm assuming they have modern highways/freeways/turnpikes that would allow greater than 55 if it was legal, right?
There weren't any cops where I was at for the most part. They just put in speed bumps every quarter mile and then the roads aren't great and there's cows and people and goats all over the place, so you don't want to hit them. Cops would direct traffic some, but I saw the cops nearly get hit by drivers and I doubt there's any repercussions.
sounds like a good reason for 12" stroke shocks...
I'm pretty sure that isn't exclusive to the rubicon? My 2001 sport will start in gear when in 4LO
Any vehicle on the roads where I was at were kind of "Overlanding" vehicles. During the monsoons, you may or may not have a road to drive on due to roads washing out, but their traffic is void of law, but everyone just makes do and rubbing is ok. The population was very dense, but people were just more laid back. In cities I've been in the US, people are angry and there's SO many laws and regulations that any cop can get you for something. Maybe it helps that a brand new car that from an Engineering perspective of utility would absolutely blow away a US car and it would cost $8k, but our cost would be $50k once you get all the fancy stuff on there that will break down in a decade or so and don't forget the $20k of regulations, not to include the extra tooling, research and design costs for new models and a bunch of other crap that we throw in. Makes me angry just thinking of all the BS waste when I just want a dependable utility vehicle, but government knows best.
Don't forget that edible wiring insulation that all the new cars have...all of the critters in India would love that.
The critters are pretty cool in India. We had an issue during the Monsoons with cobras getting into their latrines and basements and stuff. But the monkeys and stuff are really cool to me. I saw one of the bigger type monkeys fight a big bird that was trying to take something it had. It scared the crap out of me because they look kind of like 4 ft tall kids/old men but they also don't look like people and don't move like people, which is creepy especially how fast it moved, but this one burst out of like a shadow to fight this big bird. That monkey or whatever primate used to hang out on the window ledge near my room, so it was kinda cool.
In Taiwan there's almost nothing, they ate all the critters or something. Still nice people, but the language barrier is harder.
sounds like the locals in texas if they lose power again for a long time...
Or pass the illegals going the other way...unless you abandon ship..like ted cruz
I couldnt' help myself