MTS in action

[kcjaz]

The video below is from this last weekend playing in an off ORV park. The park is usually dry and has a good variety of ledges and rocks to practice crawling over. I enjoy technical rock crawling and finding the line. Not great at it but getting better. Going out with local club is awesome as there are many experienced guys willing to spot and help.

This weekend though was not dry. We got several inches of rain the day before. So stuff that I know I can, and have, slowly crawled over, now required some skinny pedal and momentum to get over. That s not my style. I'm not a "send it" kind of guy, especially in my 200 that I need to take me home. It took me three shots to get over the wet steps with mud packed in my tire treads.

In the video, on the 3rd attempt, you can see the rear passenger spin and then see the MTS doing its thing (stopping the spinning tractionless tire). On another part of the park, I had to wheel spin my way through mud and water then climb a steep rocky incline. I had the MTS set on "sand/mud" (max wheel spin) to get through the soupy part and when I started the climb, I started slipping on the rocks and wasn't going to make it but I just dialed up MTS to "rock" (minimum wheel spin) on the fly and I climbed right up with no issue. MTS is like a variable slip locker. Its taken me a while to figure out how to use it and when to change settings but it is really good.



I just tried the link and the video quality isn't that great because its a Facebook download. I'll try to get the file from the guy who took it and update the link.

Edit: better video in post #7.

 

[Tex68w]

Do you think you could have gotten up with less momentum/skinny pedal had you let MTS do its thing in 'Rock' mode?

 

[Madtiger]

Did you try CRAWL at higher speed setting on that rock ledge ?

 

[kcjaz]

Did you try CRAWL at higher speed setting on that rock ledge ?

Do you think you could have gotten up with less momentum/skinny pedal had you let MTS do its thing in 'Rock' mode?

I did not try crawl on that particular set of steps. I wish I had to actually see what it would do in that circumstance but I don't think it would have worked as the the rocks were just too slick and the tires couldn't get much of a bite on the vertical part of the steps to just climb them. The first attempt (before the video) was using MTS in rock mode but not much skinny pedal. Not even close to getting up and over. The video starts on my second attempt. In that particular circumstance, I don't see any other way than using momentum to get the tires up the vertical part of the steps and on the flat part where they could get a little traction and keep some forward movement. The fully locked 80's and 100's on 35's had to use momentum.

 

[fajitas21]

Cameras never do that justice. Gnarly work. That was a much tougher looking obstacle than the internet makes it out to be, mainly because you were shifting sideways when you bounced, which is scary because you moved toward the rock wall.

 

[kcjaz]

Cameras never do that justice. Gnarly work. That was a much tougher looking obstacle than the internet makes it out to be, mainly because you were shifting sideways when you bounced, which is scary because you moved toward the rock wall.

Agreed. That obstacle was really a pretty narrow chute with steps to get up and through. From my drivers perspective what I saw were low rocks that were mainly at axle and maybe slider level where is was tight that would keep me in the shoot and I wasn’t too worried about body damage. But as the video shows as I start spinning harder and bouncing, all bets are off and something unintended could’ve easily happened. On another place in the park, I did slide hard into a tree and hit my front driver's corner but luckily, my TJM bull bar did its job and I just bounced off it with no damage. That was super lucky. After that, my strategy became using my winch to pull me up rather than risking too much bouncing and sliding. I like these weekend "practice sessions" at the ORV parks for this reason. Yes, I am taking some risk but I am learning where the "stupid line" is. Occasionally I take some damage but to me, that's just the price of admission to something I really love doing.

 

[kcjaz]

Better video. You can see the rear passenger wheel stop/start spinning at 0:55.