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When I moved to Vegas 5 years ago, I found an area behind our house with a pretty intense hill climb. It isn't the steepest, but the rock is extremely slick. It starts off as a gradual grade, and gets steeper toward the top. There are a couple off camber areas, mostly caused by others that haven't made it up and instead, spun their tires into a hole.
I have only made it up in two vehicles so far; a Pinzgauer and a lifted & locked 80 on 35's. My Tacoma will not make it up with 4x4 engaged and the rear diff locked.
Anyway, I always looked forward to the day I would take my 40 on it, and imagined how it would do. At the bottom of the hill, I put it in 2L since I knew I'd need low eventually. I also took the opportunity to lock my front hubs. As I made my way up, I got a bit of slippage as my tires would bounce off the bigger rocks. I was able to keep my traction and made it about half way up. As the rocks got bigger and the hill got steeper, the slipping got worse.
I decided to lock my center diff, and to my surprise, it continued up quite well! I had made it about 50' from the top of the 1000' long hill. This is when the going to rough and I came up on the dug out spots from others failed attempts. It didn't take long to realize I needed both axles locked. After locking them, it easily finished the climb like I always hoped it would! It was very surreal being up there, looking at my 40.
Here she is, looking over the valley we just came up-
And headed back down the mountain on a different trail-
I have only made it up in two vehicles so far; a Pinzgauer and a lifted & locked 80 on 35's. My Tacoma will not make it up with 4x4 engaged and the rear diff locked.
Anyway, I always looked forward to the day I would take my 40 on it, and imagined how it would do. At the bottom of the hill, I put it in 2L since I knew I'd need low eventually. I also took the opportunity to lock my front hubs. As I made my way up, I got a bit of slippage as my tires would bounce off the bigger rocks. I was able to keep my traction and made it about half way up. As the rocks got bigger and the hill got steeper, the slipping got worse.
I decided to lock my center diff, and to my surprise, it continued up quite well! I had made it about 50' from the top of the 1000' long hill. This is when the going to rough and I came up on the dug out spots from others failed attempts. It didn't take long to realize I needed both axles locked. After locking them, it easily finished the climb like I always hoped it would! It was very surreal being up there, looking at my 40.
Here she is, looking over the valley we just came up-

And headed back down the mountain on a different trail-

