Long Travel BS Thread

If you don’t crawl then why even bring up approach angles?

 

For second gen inspiration:

 

That’s approach angle... those tires will hit first. Your snow plow will hit before a tire ever comes close...

 

I like this picture, that's all. It's a nice bumper, I was trying to just make a positive comment.
A new thing I'm working on. Only happy thoughts.lol
I agree with everything you said. About bolt on bumpers , frame will bend if the bumper is stronger then frame. I learned that one.

 

Point proven

 

You have a hanger for the mic, right? Don't want to be a Richard Cranium (It's a Weatherman thing).

 

that looks slick. that radio fits in nicely.

 

Are you genuinely illiterate or do you have trouble comprehending written English? You need decent approach angle because you APPROACH embankments... keyword, APPROACH-verb-
1.
come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance

I have hit embankments straight on multiple times. Obviously it depends on the angle and size of the embankments, but since my bumper is closer to 90 degrees, I can hit obstacles that are closer to 90 degrees without hitting my bumper

 

Here's the deal, his"approach" angle isn't bad. If he chopped the lower cross member his ground clearance would be better and give him a better skid angle. @mthouse01 think about it like this. You are blasting through the desert and round a blind corner at speed, and shit, there's a rock taller than your cross member, dead center in your tracks, narrower than your track width. It's going to hit your skid first! Your near vertical skid plate angle hitting it will try to stop the truck, while something with more angle on it, will try to lift the truck and glide you over the rock. Get it?

 

So when I chop my crossmember off, Slim up the front bumper and glide the front end over that rock. Explain how I am going to get my rear axle over that rock? I’d rather mess up a bumper in the middle of nowhere than an axle

 

You APPROACH embankments at an angle. Physics 101... I mean if your embankments are curbs then I understand now. But your 2wd so you’ve never done more than that I’m guessing

 

Angles...

 

Yeah, it just wasn't installed for the pic. It hangs off the pax side lip in line with the vol/squelch knobs.

 

The Yaesu 7900 has a remote head, so the speaker and radio body are under the seat. Only the face plate is mounted there. Makes for a nifty setup

 

@jberry813

 

U guys know that part in Billy Madison where they're doing the final knowledge contest....the host says "we are all now dumber for having to listen to what you said" ....I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this after all this bumper talk lol

 

I was dumb before I read it, but now I’m pretty fucked.

 

I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul @FlapJack935

 

On behalf of Texas I apologize. Lot's of bro-trucks in this state that try and lecture people with actual experience. I've turned customers away because they want a certain look when I'd rather build a functional truck. And I don't know what I'm talking about because I've never been to Baja or raced trophy trucks. People freak out when I tell them my Geiser is 2wd and I can go 125+ in the desert without getting stuck.