Made a trip up to Silver Lake Sand Dunes this weekend with some buddies. We all packed into my completely stock 04 LJ with stock sized pizza cutters. It was a blast!!
We probably tried Test Hill two dozen times. What I lacked in tire we tried to make up for in speed. But the moguls really kill the speed, and even in the smooth spots the 4.0 sometimes just didn't have the power to maintain it. That and the tires loved to dig trenches. Maybe dropping more pressure would have helped a little, I dunno. We may have looked like idiots, but we finally made it over! Sorry, no picture proof--we crested the top and were having too much fun to stop.
We zipped around, between, over, and behind just about every dune or pile of sand there was. High centered a couple of times but nothing a little bit of shoveling couldn't fix. Had fun creeping between trees, ripping donuts in the valleys, and tearing horseshoes into the dune sides. And toward the end of our time there we figured out how much fun 2 Hi was in the bowls dug out by quads.
Lessons learned from the most fun time in my Jeep to date:
We probably tried Test Hill two dozen times. What I lacked in tire we tried to make up for in speed. But the moguls really kill the speed, and even in the smooth spots the 4.0 sometimes just didn't have the power to maintain it. That and the tires loved to dig trenches. Maybe dropping more pressure would have helped a little, I dunno. We may have looked like idiots, but we finally made it over! Sorry, no picture proof--we crested the top and were having too much fun to stop.
We zipped around, between, over, and behind just about every dune or pile of sand there was. High centered a couple of times but nothing a little bit of shoveling couldn't fix. Had fun creeping between trees, ripping donuts in the valleys, and tearing horseshoes into the dune sides. And toward the end of our time there we figured out how much fun 2 Hi was in the bowls dug out by quads.
Lessons learned from the most fun time in my Jeep to date:
- Sometimes all you need is more skinny pedal
- Sometimes all you need is less skinny pedal
- A stock Jeep is pretty capable
- Wider tires would have been awesome
- I now know what the bump stops feel like