trol traction mmmm

[makeitfit]

Took a trip out to our local PnP last weekend and spent many hours driving through the porridge :lol
Took a while but eventually found a clip of the old girl, i was too busy playing to film :sly
Anyway, there was a big slippery hill which became the challenge of the day, needless to say my trol nailed it no problem Much to everyone elses dissmay, except the little orange light weight landie V8.
I'm about 7min in, compare and contrast :naughty
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[stinka]

That looked effortless mate ! I can't believe the meal those landies were making of it, that red 90 was next to useless :lol

 

[makeitfit]

I know, bless
there were dozens more that didn't make it too.
only 3 of us did, the only other was a 4.0 L jeep wrangler, not the one in the vid.
The whole site was like porridge though, like driving on banana skins :lol

 

[solarman216]

looks like a really good day out, Rick

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

You were about the only one there who seems to realise "Less is more" when it comes to throttle and muddy hills.

I am sure half that lot thought they were in an Icelandic bog buggy.

When my wife and I had the little SJ410, and went to our PnP, there was a smaller hill than that, but the landy's were all struggling to get over it. Suz was driving, and I said to her, "when that last halfshaft breaker gets out the way, we will go over that". She was all, "if they can't I won't be able to", but tried it anyway. Second low, power on just as it started to labour at the start of the hill, and over with out any agro whats so ever.. you should have seen the look on her face, when she realised how effortlessly she had done something that the others were failing and struggling with.:clap

 

[BigG]

Nice one

 

[96terrano]

poor landys, when will they realise that jap is the way to go, we dont make good 4x4s:lol:lol

 

[makeitfit]

It's all too easy to give it too many beans and just chew up the surface and stand there with all wheels spinning :lol
Gently gently catchy monkey :naughty
Mind you it does help having bucket loads of torque hanging around spare

 

[solarman216]

this is precisely the problem I am having to overcome/relearn, with my old petrol the low down torque was there (till I filled the engine with water) so now I have this TDi have to give it a few revs then all of a sudden the turbo kicks in and I have far too much, I am hopping this will improve when I start running on diesel instead of chip oil, down to just over a quarter tank now so will add a about 4 gallons derv tomorrow ready for Sunday, and see if there is any improvement, Rick

 

[makeitfit]

Rick what revs when the turbo comes in ? Quick fix for awesome low down torque, stuff some LPG up it :naughty

 

[solarman216]

kicks in just below 2000, Rick

 

[makeitfit]

LPG is a cheap powerful fix OR get a better comp wheel for the turbo :naughty
I presume you've binned the bloody aweful nissan turbo exhaust flange and down pipe. That's very restrictive. Hi flow air filter.

 

[stinka]

You put a new maf in yet ?

 

[solarman216]

LPG is a cheap powerful fix OR get a better comp wheel for the turbo :naughty
I presume you've binned the bloody aweful nissan turbo exhaust flange and down pipe. That's very restrictive. Hi flow air filter.

have a good air filter, not done anything with exhaust, still thinking along the lines of fuel as when it starts (first time no problem) it will not respond to the throttle hardly at all till it starts to warm up, then gradually gets better but still not how I think it should be, Rick

 

[solarman216]

You put a new maf in yet ?

no not as yet, see previous post, Rick

 

[stinka]

no not as yet, see previous post, Rick

U got a snorkle yet ?

After fitting mine Water was sitting in my air box after hard rain and taking ages to clear, but adding the drain bung from the stock air box (mine wax an enclosed k&n type) as suggested by makeitfit solved that

My maf was dead tho

Also found my egr sticking and not shutting all the time due to serious gunk

Did inlet manifold gasket and also found it had gone slightly on 1 and 4

Throttle valve base gasket oring had perished, resealed with cooper rtv

And when I tested it the seal on the throttle spindle was very slightly bubbling so I junked the whole lot

I had about 5mm thick of gunk all through my inlet manifold which I put down to the egr valve sticking

 

[makeitfit]

Good points they all add up. Also bin the oil blow by thingy or you'll be chucking oil in your I/C doing it no good at all :doh

 

[solarman216]

yes got a snorkel, but dry, EGR disabled, still got oil thingy but will bin it when got time, going to Slindon tomorrow so see how it goes, also got new vid cam so hopefully will have some interesting vids for you, as a side note not sure how this dymeena rope is going to stand up life wise, time will tell, Rick

 

[makeitfit]

Dyneema will last bloody ages and so much kinder to your hands :lol
Just watch out for running it over sharp stuff. So keep a bit of carpet or something for it to slide over if you cant get a clear pull :thumbs