Off-road MYTHS part 2

g'day guys ronnie dale four wheeling australia welcome to part two of off-road myths and we're just gonna start straight off with the biggest myth of all i reckon and that is the fact that you need a vehicle fully kitted out like this to go four wheeling full driving off-roading over landing that is the biggest lie that's out there every accessory store every brand anyone who sells gear to bolt on a full drive will want you to believe that because then they can make money and sell all the gear all the magazines want you to believe that too but it's not true you can actually head out in a stock vehicle and have a lot of fun you don't need to keep your vehicle out to this extreme here of course if you are out there regularly and that's your main hobby sure start modifying things and fall into the pit that the rest of us have it's a big money pit you keep spending money on them it's a lifestyle so if you're heading towards the lifestyle yeah all the gear is probably a good idea but to go four wheel driving or four wheeling or just over landing every now and then do it in a stock vehicle don't believe what the magazines tell you don't believe what all the other guys tell you on the on the videos you don't need all the gear it's the biggest load of bs out there [Music] this smith is very important to cover because a lot of people believe this one and it's actually dangerous to believe this particular myth right here which is when you're on gravel roads you shouldn't use four-wheel drive because four-wheel drive uses too much fuel look four-wheel drive does use a little bit more fuel but it's minuscule i've done so many trips on gravel roads long stretches we're about to do one right now actually we're 100ks into a 500k stint gravel road four-wheel drive always and here's a reason why four-wheel drive is your safety mechanism for loose traction surfaces so therefore if you have a part-time full drive it should be in four-wheel drive it is your stability control it is your full-time four-wheel drive comparison so to say it's your safety it keeps you on the road it keeps you safe especially on the bends a lot of people roll their cars in two-wheel drive on bends that's when most accidents happen on gravel roads so when you are on a gravel road always lock your hubs and leave it in full drive but then remember to hop out of full drive when you hit the tarmac again because otherwise your cars bind up [Music] we've aired up we're ready to hit the highway and the common myth goes something like this with manual locking hubs some people believe and a lot of people tell other people that you must have it in three when you hit the highway so long as you're out of four-wheel drive inside the vehicle with the lever there you are out of four-wheel drive you can in fact leave your hubs locked the entire time it is a complete myth that you are going to waste fuel and you're going to have heavy steering i drive a bind locked probably 50 of the time and you know what if you haven't been off-road or if you don't off-road frequently you should really lock that every now and then so you can spin and stir up the oils inside the diffs as a matter of fact i'm going to drive home the perth 400ks with this locked just to prove a point so having these locked when it comes to fuel usage yeah sure it might use a tiny bit more fuel but it'll be so minute that you wouldn't be able to measure that you honestly would not even be able to measure the amount of fuel the extra amount of fuel that you would use if it's unlocked so it doesn't matter as long as you're at a full drive you're safe [Music] now to the windsmith and the windsmith is a lot of people think and believe that steel cable is stronger than rope now what they say is it is way stronger way stronger than a rope it's totally not true though we've done a lot of testing with steel cable the myth goes that steel cable is stronger because you can drag it over rocks you can winch over rocks and if the line hits the rock it's all good when a cable goes on top of steel it severs it gets cut and that's what happened here the winch cable actually cut itself right on the door now to we're about four or five where we have winch cables sever due to metal on metal contact so when it would stretch it will do this twisty thing it will spin really fast and when it was sitting on a bit of metal it would basically grind itself away and then just pull itself apart so what we found what was happening was all these strands were getting cut through and then it'll just tear itself apart we have pulled winch lines across vehicles across flat surfaces of metal which are less abrasive than rocks and eventually it wears its way through the strands and then the strands wear away and then bang the steel cable goes the same would happen to a bit of rope as well so the idea of a steel cable being stronger than a winch rope is absolute it's an absolute myth well here we are in the workshop and here we have a steel cable look i could bang on about steel cable versus rope for like 20 to 30 minutes there are a lot of things you need to consider but this is just a myth so let's get straight to the point and the point is this steel cable pulls about the same amount of load as the synthetic rope there is not much difference in the two so for people to claim that this is superior in strength and load handling well it's simply not true look horses for courses neither is really better than the other a common four-wheel drive myth and off-road myth is ifs is crap off-road well you know what it's not yes we've got two solid axle land cruisers over here but here we have a ifs independent front suspension hilux this thing goes almost the same places that these two go most of the time 99 of the stuff you can do in an ifs vehicle you don't need a solid axle vehicle so when people are telling you this misconception this myth about ifs being crap off-road they are probably referring to soft rotors city cars the you know the soft rotor suvs the ones that only have all-wheel drive not like a proper four-wheel drive this is not a soft rotor this is an ifs hilux you got triton you got bt 50 you got ford ranger you've got so many tough ifs vehicles so don't believe them if the second biggest myth of part two will be a four-wheel drive with all the gear is better that is true to a degree so if you put good tyres good off-road tyres on like you know mud terrain all terrain or whatever it is some tyres that are made for full driving you put a suspension lift to get your extra 50 mil of clearance yes that is still improving your vehicle you put some protection on it yes that is improving your vehicle for animal strikes and to mounting things onto it but there is a point where it becomes a burden if you start putting too much weight on your vehicle it's going to make your vehicle worse so too much gear on your vehicle is actually bad it actually makes it worse i've been there before this weighed 4.2 tonne at some stage i've now cut right back stripped a lot of stuff off it stripped a lot of weight off it and i've nearly gotten rid of 800 kilos so the more weight the more gear you put on your vehicle it gets to a point where it actually becomes less reliable and less practical off-road this move i'm sick of and that is four-wheel drive is the same as all-wheel drive it is total bs i've done a whole video on it okay so whoever says that they have no idea what they're talking about so go over and watch all-wheel drive versus four-wheel drive and you'll know the true difference between an all-wheel drive and a full drive and it's not just about the drive system that's where all these people who get upset about what i'm saying here get stuck on they're focusing on what i'm saying about the driveline how they all work now there's lots of different all-wheel drive systems some behave very similar to a full driver they're not four-wheel drive but that's not only what i'm referring to an all-wheel drive generally have weaker diffs weaker cvs weaker axles weaker prop shafts weaker in general soft rotors okay so all-wheel drive is not four-wheel drive it's a myth [Music] this myth is kind of a bit more of an misunderstanding by a lot of beginners or people who don't understand the four-wheel drive system and the myth goes when your vehicle is stuck and all four wheels are not spinning there's something wrong which is totally untrue the only reason or only situation where all four wheels could be spinning when you're stuck is if you have a center differential lock a front differential lock and a rear differential lock so you've got forced drive to all four wheels that's the only time all four wheels to spin while you're stuck usually you'd only have one wheel at the front one wheel at the back spinning if you're stuck or maybe two of the back one of the front and it all comes down to which wheels have contact and which wheels have at least resistance because when you're stuck or when you're in a situation where there's no contact on one side and contact on the other side power and torque will go to path of laser resistance and will escape through the wheel that's not doing much that wheel will spin the other wheel would just sit there so that is explained more in four wheel drive versus all-wheel drive i encourage you to watch that video because i'll go right into depth and explain how that works but if your mate stuck or if you're stuck in a bog hole and only you know two three of your wheels are spinning it doesn't mean there's something wrong with your vehicle okay all four wheels rarely spin when you're stuck unless you've locked the diffs we've just done a massive drive and we've been on some corrugations nothing too bad this time usually we encounter some pretty rough corrugations and the myth with corrugation goes something like this people may tell you to drive faster on corrugations when they're rough there is some truth to that but if you only just listen to that advice and just drive faster when the corrugations get bad things are going to get a lot worse so what is the best way to handle corrugations well let's go down to the tire and i'll discuss it it's not too complex really if you hit corrugations and you're on highway pressure the first thing you should consider is how long is the duration of these corrugations could that be 100ks 200k 300k 400ks if that's the case consider lowering your tyre pressure just a little bit you may find that 40 is too rough in corrugations but if you go down to say 35 or 30 possibly even your high 20s your footprint is going to increase and it's not going to fall into every single gap of the corrugations now unfortunately i don't have corrugations here to show you because they're a couple of hundred k's back there but lower your tyre pressure a little bit and then adjust your speed so you may not be able to sit on 110 kilometers per hour but you may find that 80 kilometers per hour at 35 psi is the prime spot to sit now it's important that you find that good buffer zone and stick to it because if you just go faster like people will tell you people stuck with the myth if you just go faster you're just going to rattle everything loose bolts and nuts and screws all these things are going to start to wear and start unwinding and stress fractures possibly even if you've got an overweight vehicle you could put a stretch fracture in your chassis your canopy could start fracturing in certain places corrugations send vibrations through your entire vehicle and can cause a lot of damage if you're not careful and these things generally happen on long duration drives or corrugations if you just hit corrugations for 20 k's just put up with it just go for it but on a long-haul drive you might want to lower your pressure with some extra advice you should also be in full wheel drive when you hit corrugations that is absolutely paramount for your safety if you hit a corner at top speed on corrugations in two wheel drive even in four wheel drive you can slip across to the side so spend some time adjusting your tyre pressures on those long haul drives and if it's just a short section take it easy especially if you've got high psi just lower your speed a bit so when out in the outback don't fall for the myth if your mate just tells you just to go faster because other things are going on i could go far more in depth about corrugations this deserves a 15 to 20 minute video on its own to explain exactly how to drive on corrugations the best way possible but this is just a miss so let's keep moving thanks for watching part two of off-road myths which of these myths did you believe or have you fallen for look we all at some stage got some bad advice from someone and believed it it happens all the time so chuck it down below and are there any myths that i might have left out maybe they'll be in part three stay tuned for that see you guys you

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 15 2020