Thread: Anti-stall - bypass

you think you have trouble stalling it in low range----

Originally Posted by dobbo

Yes, I was witness to David's penis measuring exercise.




I have no problems with modern vehicles, but I do like the ability to start an old school Landy with a dead battery by clutch starting it down a curb.

I like the anti stall on the new 110 but having driven both that and my suzi I can honestly say there is very little difference between this electronic improvement and having a heap of usable off idle torque from the 4BD1 on my County. I am far from the best 4WDer in the world but I still have to work hard to stall it in low range.

hey I'd done a long days driving and drinking was involved........

Originally Posted by one_iota

Hang on here...


Going down hill is another matter although I haven't experienced this adversely yet. The Tdi used to require some throttle on really steep slippery down hill to stop the rear end from wanting to take first place

from what i have driven off road, the puma is even better at going down hill than the 200tdi 90, it extremely slow and well controlled.

till you hit that magic lurchnhop speed....

the busmasters do it to if you try going downhill with the retarder on.

I done many 1st gear low speed crawls and it has never "lurched" on me?? Maybe it's a different system to the Bushmaster?? It is after all a totally different vehicle and we are talking Puma's aren't we??

1st gear on a puma is lower than most, the only time it hasn't gone slow enough for me I've had to get on the clutch and come down on the brakes apart from running an auto (no Defender option?) there is no other way of avoiding it no matter what car your driving. (unless it has special dif ratio's or reduction gears, but them your taking a about customised car?)

CHeers,

Originally Posted by muddymech

from what i have driven off road, the puma is even better at going down hill than the 200tdi 90, it extremely slow and well controlled.

Like I say I haven't had any bad experiences going downhill so I have been wondering what the reported fuss has been about. I was expecting it to run away but it didn't. I haven't done any greasy steep slopes though to compare it with the Disco.

Dito, its a really smooth and slow in low first, very impressive.

on a downhill descent that isnt a single level grade (ie a rocky downgrade) there is a magic point where it cuts between idle up and over run if you happen to jag it so that its trying to do one then the other due to changing vehicle speed over obstacles on the way down (like that double drop at the top of the line you took into gunshot but worse) and the track is consistantly rough in the right way all the way down you wind up bunny hopping it down.

Ive experienced it but then I was out to do it deliberately and had stacked the deck against the vehicle to make it happen to see if it would. you can also make it happen on the way up a hill if you're in the situation where the high idle isnt giving you enough but you need to slow right down (a torn up shale climb for example) but its nowhere near as noticable...

there are of course very simple ways to get around these problems outside of just turning the damn thing off but you cant just turn it off.