Thread: 4WD an overkill??

It may not be 4 wheel drive but it has a solid drive to both rear wheels, locked diff just like a go cart . The locked diff works well in those conditions but if there were any sealed roads eg. bitumen there would be problems.

Says something about skinny tyres in mud!
Getting down to the base.

We have had that on here before, yes very impressive. Skinny tyres, firm base. They did have a diff, an open diff at that.

Skinny tyres yes but also that thing weighs 2245lb.

For the same reason a 200series or D3/4 sucks in mud a 1920s dodge and series 1 will rule... that old dodge would likely out do a D4 in one wheel drive purely because weight like speed follows a close to inverse square rule!

A vehicle twice the mass needs much much more than twice the flotation and horsepower. Get to lard arse proportions like D3/4 and 200 series and you need a million horsepower and 425/85R22 to even come close to competing to one tonne and skinny with rear wheel drive

Weight is always the enemy

S

425/85/r22 - they look the goods in a mt pattern

Yes skinny tyres certainly did the trick but a kidney belt would have been needed as the ride on cart springs was bouncy to say the least.
My grandfather toured the outback and into the Kimberly in a Willys Overland ute in the 50s. He also climbed Ayres Rock before the chain was put there.
They were a different breed in those days!

My dad drove an old Austin from Tenant Creek to Darwin, then down to Perth in late 40's early 50's. And he what he knew about cars/mechanical items you could fit on a postage stamp. Didn't seem to phase them and I know he had no sat phone, recovery kit, etc etc. They just went and did it.