Transmission questions

[speaceman]

I don't know. I just never had any problems, in any of my gearing set ups, making it down hills, no matter how loose the soil was. Any hill that was really loose or steep was never long enough that I'd have to be worried about going too fast by the bottom.


Anything else, and the jeep had enough engine braking that I didn't have to touch the brakes anyway.

Even if the jeep ever did start to slide, it was not that bad to modulate between using the brake and the gas.

I think you are thinking about driving an auto like it is a stick.

You need to get out and wheel someone's auto on some of the stuff you are worried about, so you can get a feel for how it works.

The driving style (and I take this solely from driving Michael's rover around at TDS that one day) is very different in pucker inducing situations.

I personally would take an auto for uphills and offcambers and stopping and starting vs a stick and its easier downhills.

I think the benefits to the trade off weigh heavily on the auto side for SoCal wheeling.

[BlueJeeper]

Find a tranny that will use an electronically modulated converter clutch in low range.

[Robert J. Yates]

art,

2.75:1 tranny first x 4:1 tcase x 4:56 diffs.

I have plenty of compression braking - maybe to much which may limit my ability to generate wheelspeed. we'll see, I haven't crawled it hard yet in the big rocks.

with your atlas and 5:13's, you will have plenty. might need to look at your brakes though - lots of crawl in an auto rig leads to convertor creep.

[Bruce David]

Originally posted by Art Welch

There are a few other hills like that in the Santa Clarita area, they can be very treachorous with some moisture.

Or with out..