clinometer

[skhochay]

2 Question:
1. do you use clinometer when you go crawling ?
2. where do you mount it?

I was looking all over the dashboard to mount it, found the spot - seems to be good, not on the way to anything and almost in the middle on the car work well.

 

[UnderDawg]

Looks cool.. to bad about the jeep pic. Would be cooler with an old 40 on it. Where did you get it?

 

[skhochay]

$20 e-bay

 

[UnderDawg]

$20 e-bay

But is it made in China though...

 

[skhochay]

But is it made in China though...

The only thing that not made in China are my children - LOL ya it is china but made well I took it apart

 

[mikedamageinc]

I bet it would be easy to take the thing apart, cut out a photo of your 80 from the front and a side shot to paste in there.

 

[2fpower]

Gotta be an app for this-- even recording max tilts... anyone?

 

[NLXTACY]

I've always felt that these things' usefulness changed with your CoG. What difference does that degree matter if you lift it 4"? What if you are carrying a bunch on your roof? Just seemed pointless but maybe I'm missing the point, I dunno. I suppose if I really wanted to know I'd use the free iPhone level app.

 

[702FZJ80]

The question is, how do you set a baseline for the clinometer to know when too much is too much, without going over so to speak?

 

[NLXTACY]

The question is, how do you set a baseline for the clinometer to know when too much is too much, without going over so to speak?

You first have to know your final lift height and tire size. Then you have to have all of your gear situated. Then go to the scales and see your weight bias, then....

 

[retrofive]

I've always felt that these things' usefulness changed with your CoG. What difference does that degree matter if you lift it 4"? What if you are carrying a bunch on your roof? Just seemed pointless but maybe I'm missing the point, I dunno. I suppose if I really wanted to know I'd use the free iPhone level app.

It's the calibration that is a bitch with them. Gotta watch and flop your rig to know where to mark the spot.

 

[NLXTACY]

It's the calibration that is a bitch with them. Gotta watch and flop your rig to know where to mark the spot.

THAT is the baseline

 

[retrofive]

THAT is the baseline

I fixed a friends 1st gen. 4r

 

[NLXTACY]

I fixed a friends 1st gen. 4r
View attachment 945088

YES!!!!!!

 

[canman]

It seems the pucker factor always kicks in before you reach any critical angle (at least from my experience). I am always amazed when I get out and look at my vehicle when I think I'm about to tip to only see it at a mild angle. Typically, the military requires all wheeled vehicles to maintain a static side slope angle of 30 degrees. I'm sure for most of us, we should have no problem maintaining that. The real problem occurs when one wheel enters a hole or hits a bump. Based on some CoG testing we did on the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon (same wheel base as ours and similar curb weight) I would guess that the CoG (vertical) is somewhere between the bottom of the door and bottom of the window on the drivers/ front pass door, and biased towards the rear edge of the drivers/ front pass door (horizontal).

 

[NLXTACY]

It's not just when one wheel hits a hole as much as which direction the wheel is pointed. Turned the wrong direction and you can get floppy.

 

[jcardona1]

Gotta be an app for this-- even recording max tilts... anyone?

There sure is! Even one with an 80 on it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.RollMeOver.RollMeOver&hl=en

 

[2fpower]

Awesome. Need to search for one for the iphone.

 

[NLXTACY]

Awesome. Need to search for one for the iphone.

Go to your Compass app. Then swipe left

 

[2fpower]

found one at Istore. unfortunately FORD is all over it. But better than Jeep. All japenese lettering on it.