last bit of snow....

[crawlin cruiser]

went for a drive in the tranquille valley just minutes from my house. nice day got stuck for a bit but my 61 is a tank in the snow my open diffed 61 made it further than my buddies locked front and rear toy

 

[Granite Grinder]

went for a drive in the tranquille valley just minutes from my house. nice day got stuck for a bit but my 61 is a tank in the snow my open diffed 61 made it further than my buddies locked front and rear toy

I don't think lockers help in the snow, I found I went further open diff then with the ARB's in.

 

[Deny]

I don't know about not helping, I think its a lot to do with many different variables. What I have found is traction is huge (ie tires), wheelbase makes a difference, I think wagons do better than 40s, and probably weight too (depends on if you want to float on the snow, or sink through for traction).

 

[Granite Grinder]

I'm speaking of the 40 with 38's aired down to 5psi. Always went further open then locked... at least in the snow.

 

[Mud_Guppie]

what's that blue stuff in the top half of the pics

 

[Scalp]

2008 - December - year of the big snow in Vancouver. The big hill at 10th Ave West and Dunbar was jammed with sideways busses and people on the boulevard looking forlornly at their stuck cars. A guy I know threw his Cruiser into low range and f&r lockers and motored up that hill lickety split. At one point there was some dork in a corolla coming down the only passable single lane. My friend dove for the weeds and just kept going around him and recovered and made it up the hill. There were bus drivers, cops and firemen standing there looking at him go by with a pretty puzzled look on their faces. Not quite as spectaular as Fantom's death defying snow pile plunge but nevertheless pretty satisfying. He spent the next couple of days running the neighbours back and forth to the grocery stores because NOBODY was mobile. The long and the short of it is that if there is no sideslip camber to deal with, then lockers do indeed improve traction in the snow.

 

[crawlin cruiser]

what's that blue stuff in the top half of the pics

blue sky, you should try it out sometime

23 here today

 

[Scalp]

23 here today

Do you mean 23 rusty Cruisers out back??

Anyway Dan, we'll make you a hellofadeal: pay your dues now and we will not only reinstate you, but we'll make it from today on rather than from when you dropped out

 

[Deny]

blue sky, you should try it out sometime

23 here today

Nuts, 23 and sunny here too!

 

[canucksafari]

23 and sunny here too today...

Abby, then to Princeton, then to Stinkloops ;p and now at Sorrento.

 

[explorer]

Always nice to go play in the snow.