Hill Climb Comparison

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Originally Posted by sctsprin

Here's a vid of the rocky descent
https://youtu.be/jTcktkDwFwY

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Alright, which one of you is it that looks like Charlie Chaplin when you walk :p

The eDiff symbol is permanently ON in rock crawl, I'm assuming that means it's always atleast partially locked?

We had to use off-road + llams full height to clear most of the rocks on that descent and even then we scraped underneath a few times, the rocks were pretty big and we had to plan the turns due to how narrow the track was between some of the big outcrops. I'm sure more experienced drivers wouldn't need a spotter, but we didn't want to break anything and it was a good learning experience for both of us

Hell of a fun day, but does make you appreciate having the missus along for navigation, feeding and camera duties, it really is a bit harder by yourself

He he that's a good one, hadn't thought of it, that's Scott

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

Alright, which one of you is it that looks like Charlie Chaplin when you walk :p

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It's one of the tracks near the campgrounds by the creek, there's some very short crazy climbs next to it, it's near #60 track

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Originally Posted by ozscott

I am reasonably confident my group did that climb a few weeks ago when camped out there. 3 D2 v8" and a d3 with 10 per cent bigger than stock 18"s and edif. We all did it easily but line is everything. I usually climb in 2 or 3rd low and just let the torque do the work. There is a video that shows mine and a mates D2 on the same line on a steep ascent - he is scrabbling and mine isn't_ his is manual too and was in first low so up in power range and not using low torque. Cheers

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I certainly didn't feel the brakes or eDiff cut in all day, making me thinks it's behaving as I'd expect with near instantaneous smooth adjustment of the eDiff as required, I assume rock crawl sets a much higher minimum eDiff lockup? Say 30% ?

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Originally Posted by Graeme

My experience with the D4's e-diff is the opposite, with the e-diff operating without any sound of TC activating and no loss of progress. My RRV chatters the rear brakes often with momentary reduced progress.

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Originally Posted by sctsprin

I certainly didn't feel the brakes or eDiff cut in all day, making me thinks it's behaving as I'd expect with near instantaneous smooth adjustment of the eDiff as required, I assume rock crawl sets a much higher minimum eDiff lockup? Say 30% ?

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Watching it again you can see as the front left tyre of each car goes up onto the rock, scotts rear left loses traction and he stops, while yours kicks dirt from both rear wheels. When you stop and start again, both rear wheels keep traction, while scotts rear left (EDIT: its the right) scrabbles until the brakes grab it, and he kicks a little to the left.

I reckon its a pretty good sign that the e-diff is doing its thing :)

It would be interesting, james, if you did the same track twice, but disabled the ediff via the ccf (if you can do that). Then you'd know how much work the ediff does.

Cheers

Dan

Interesting Idea Dan, but I'm not rewriting my CCF in the middle of nowhere ��

Aww wheres your sense of adventure!? :p

Cheers

Dan

No need to change the CCF, just cut the blue wire!

Or is it the red one?:confused:

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Originally Posted by rocmic

While James does have the edif, it only will cut in when you get horrible traction.

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When in rock crawl, the e-diff is preloaded before any slippage occurs.

[Edit - bit late to the party on this on - having a toddler all to myself means it takes over an hour to type one sentence!]