Thread: Pinzgauer Lay over PICS

Originally Posted by Grover-98

Oright on the weekend me and a bunch of mates including Ian (Goldsworthy) went for a 4x4 camping trip up at Foster and here are some photos of the most eventful moment of the entire weekend and you can see the main road at the base of the hill... so close yet so far. .

good that all is ok.
Now for those that are all up about the mispronunciation and spelling in that other thread re barthust, i would just like to point out that Forster is pronounced Foster, but actually spelled Forster.

Originally Posted by Rosscoe68

good that all is ok.
Now for those that are all up about the mispronunciation and spelling in that other thread re barthust, i would just like to point out that Forster is pronounced Foster, but actually spelled Forster.

Im glad my poor spelling has helped solve this case but please don't turn this thread into a spelling arguement!

Wow - not good. If that bank had not been on the high side a full roll rather than a tip over might have been on the cards.

I am glad that there was not much damage and everyone was OK.

Were the diffs locked and if so did this contribute to the tip over or was it the usual crappy wheel travel tip it up on three wheels and then over. The 101 would have had similar issues but with more weight lower down and beam axles might not have tipped but would definitely been lifting wheels.

Garry

Yes we were very glad that bank was there, specially looking back on the Pictures. We had front and rear locked at the time and the naturally caused the front to take us slightly off line causeing the front right to drop in to a massive hole which was the end of us. The rear left was already sitting pretty high in the air prior to dropping in so it didnt take much encouragement to go over.

I did wonder after it happened what a 101 taking the same line would do, on paper the Pinz and 101 have the same rate of stability but as we all know in the real world things work differently... but id say had you dropped a wheel in that same hole you would be the one telling the story

James.

ooops. sorry, forgot to put a at the ebnd of my post, it was meant to be tongue in cheek. sorry, not meant to offend, just seems silly that everyone is so all caught up on grammar and spelling, when the real excitement is whats going on out in the real world in our 4wd's , like you guys getting out there and having a go

So it is possible that the incident was caused, at least in part, by the font diff lock.

I know they have their uses, but I have often wondered whether they might have the potential to be unhelpful or even dangerous if not used carefully.

I remember with my Haflinger some years ago having some mild frights when use of the front diff lock caused the vehicle to take a slightly different line from the one I wanted to follow.

Originally Posted by vnx205

So it is possible that the incident was caused, at least in part, by the font diff lock.

I know they have their uses, but I have often wondered whether they might have the potential to be unhelpful or even dangerous if not used carefully.

I remember with my Haflinger some years ago having some mild frights when use of the front diff lock caused the vehicle to take a slightly different line from the one I wanted to follow.

I tend to agree. Using the rear locker when going downhill is a great help, keeps the car straight and stops it running away when you go over a cross-axle section. I slways engage the rear locker on serious downhill sections.

However using the front downhill is asking for trouble.

Originally Posted by Grover-98

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James.

Yea yea pics are good

Dunno if I'd of posted that one though