ToxicBanana
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I was trying to make it up a steep sand dune in 4Low 4th gear with lockers engaged, I was limited at 30mph when I was around 4k RPMs, this presented an issue as the governor is aggressive enough when it throttles you that I can potentially lose too much momentum and not complete the dune. I am still not sure if I was limited to 30mph because of the lockers or not (I didn't think about that as a possibility when I was there).
I choose not to try doing the dune in 4High 1st gear which is 29mph at max RPM (6-6.5k)
I did try 2nd in 4High but try after try 2nd gear seems to be too high causing me to lose power, bog down and have to retry.
in 4Low find 30MPH is ok, 35mph would have been better, my biggest issue was the engine cutting power too aggressively when the governor kicked in.
I have a few different options I can think of and would like your opinions.
1) Maybe the lockers are what caused the 30mph governor to kick in, assuming its safe to be in 4L at 35mph in very soft sand, then my solution would be some locker bypasses where I can engage them without the Jeep knowing they are activated or simply not use the lockers.
2) Assuming it's safe to be in 4L at 35mph in very soft sand, I could have a jeep programmer change the size of the tire down in such a way that it would think I am going slow enough in 4th in 4Low that the governor won't trigger
3) With 4high 1st gear with 35" tires and RPM red line I would achieve about 33mph which should be enough, bonus would be adding a locker bypass assuming again its safe to do so at that speed.
4) Just don't do it
How fast can you go in soft sand in 4Low?
How bad is it to push your car to redline (about 6-6.5k on this Jeep)?
I choose not to try doing the dune in 4High 1st gear which is 29mph at max RPM (6-6.5k)
I did try 2nd in 4High but try after try 2nd gear seems to be too high causing me to lose power, bog down and have to retry.
in 4Low find 30MPH is ok, 35mph would have been better, my biggest issue was the engine cutting power too aggressively when the governor kicked in.
I have a few different options I can think of and would like your opinions.
1) Maybe the lockers are what caused the 30mph governor to kick in, assuming its safe to be in 4L at 35mph in very soft sand, then my solution would be some locker bypasses where I can engage them without the Jeep knowing they are activated or simply not use the lockers.
2) Assuming it's safe to be in 4L at 35mph in very soft sand, I could have a jeep programmer change the size of the tire down in such a way that it would think I am going slow enough in 4th in 4Low that the governor won't trigger
3) With 4high 1st gear with 35" tires and RPM red line I would achieve about 33mph which should be enough, bonus would be adding a locker bypass assuming again its safe to do so at that speed.
4) Just don't do it
How fast can you go in soft sand in 4Low?
How bad is it to push your car to redline (about 6-6.5k on this Jeep)?
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