Gang:
Question for you. A few weeks ago I was out doing some trail riedes with my new found 'Rover' friends. Part of the trip included some very nice and steep sand dunes.
I'm well aware that in both going down hills forward or backward, you want to use engine compression andgearing to slow the decent and completely avoid the brakes. I used to have a BJ60 that was fantastic for this - put it in 1st 4Low and let it walk down the hill - slow enough that I could have probably got out to pee without the truck passing me.
I found that going forward the truck seemed to be fine and no temptation to hit the brakes. In reverse it seemed much faster. We were talking at lunch and I thought that going down backwad seemed faster b/c maybe the gearing was different. My Rover friends said that this would not be the case as I would be limited by my lowest gearing = should be the same speed.
So, wha't the deal - how does this work?
Cheers, Hugh
Question for you. A few weeks ago I was out doing some trail riedes with my new found 'Rover' friends. Part of the trip included some very nice and steep sand dunes.
I'm well aware that in both going down hills forward or backward, you want to use engine compression andgearing to slow the decent and completely avoid the brakes. I used to have a BJ60 that was fantastic for this - put it in 1st 4Low and let it walk down the hill - slow enough that I could have probably got out to pee without the truck passing me.
I found that going forward the truck seemed to be fine and no temptation to hit the brakes. In reverse it seemed much faster. We were talking at lunch and I thought that going down backwad seemed faster b/c maybe the gearing was different. My Rover friends said that this would not be the case as I would be limited by my lowest gearing = should be the same speed.
So, wha't the deal - how does this work?
Cheers, Hugh