Yep. I have found it is easier to go slower once you have the clutch all the way out - I seem to get a little surge as it's engaging.

 

I feel the exact same way man. Of course this is only on trails with rocks the size of my tire or so. For most trails I don't have a big complaint with stock gearing, but then again, most trails don't have much actual rock crawling.

 

WIth a tired old 22re, I woudl stall in many situations with the clutch out. Feathering is needed at times. In my opinion.

 

Couple of things.

- 1st, whomever said (way back on page 1) to PM me (FredTJ) because I drive a manual and can give tips (when crawling the big rocks) is WRONG.
I don't drive a manual, I drive an auto and will NEVER go back to a manual tranny for crawling.

- 2nd, for what's best for crawling, one simply needs to look and see what the VAST MAJORITY of "pro" crawlers use => AUTO, for good reasons..


There is simply no comparsion between manual and auto trannies when we're talking about rock crawling.

We've (friends and myself) who have run both, get a kick now of watching those that run manual trannies (even when geared a zillion to 1) make "easy" obstacles look hard, while those running autos take "hard" obstacles and make 'em look easy.

BTW, I haven't waded through all 3 pages of this thread. Just skimmed the first page and jumped here to reply.







Fred

 

you said what I was thinking....just much more effectively!

 

In all my years I have never tried this... interesting, next trip I will give this a shot

crawl box would be nice, I got a little pucker going down devil's staircase in 4L1st