I'm not sure that's completely true. I would assume they were pulling in 4wd low and without the atrac they would have likely done a one tire burnout before they built enough momentum to get the tow rig moving.
Who do we take our newer yotas to here in bham?
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I'm not sure that's completely true. I would assume they were pulling in 4wd low and without the atrac they would have likely done a one tire burnout before they built enough momentum to get the tow rig moving.
ATRAC on the FJC is like the magic button. Works better than just the rear locker engaged. I suspect if I had a front locker, that might be best, but I'd be breakin a lot more CV's if so.
Land Speeder
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Sitting in a dealership right now, looking at an '06 and wondering if it has the Gen I or II ATRAC...
The gen II is nothing short of amazing!
The gen II is nothing short of amazing!
I had an 09 tundra 4x4 and the ATRAC would take it just about anywhere. Pretty neat actually to see it work from outside the truck. But it would sound like it was going to poo itself and throw metal pieces all over.
Yeah, good point. I don't know the math, but it'd be interesting to calculate the torque required at the wheels, the normal force, and frictional forces to figure out if they would have encountered wheel slip. I figure from 0-2mph even with that large of a load that it wouldn't have been an issue, but that's just a gut feeling. My guts (in the immortal words of John Cusack in High Fidelity) "have caca for brains."
Yeah, I never could figure out why it was on a button in the tacoma. I just left it on all the time, it only functions in 4Lo anyway, so I figured why not.
I figured if it'd been working you could have seen a tire slipping. The times I've witnessed it, it's been really obvious that ATRAC was doing something.
I know I tried pulling a large sailboat out of lake martin with a 2wd pickup and it pulled it backward down the dry ramp with one tire spinning. Hooked up a truck with limited slip and it pulled right out.
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Look at the 100 series video thread lots of demonstrations
Land Speeder
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I've been wheeling in both genI and genII style ATRAC. Just womdering when and if the 100 got GenII ATRAC like what the taco's and FJC's have.
What's the difference, other than getting a button for it? I guess I could search or RTFM... that's a lot of work though.
Land Speeder
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exactly why I asked here! LOL. Guess I just don;t care enough.
Well soons as I gets my tires I'll have to go get stuck and find out.
