Re: RTI revealed...

[jmbrodsky@domain.elided]

     Allan,
     
        When I ran the ramp in Colorado, the problem was that I have 3/4T 
     springs in the rear and 1/2T in the front, and the front does all the 
     work.  If I had 3/4T all the way around, it'd go higher.  I did lift a 
     wheel, it's not that I had to stop for something else, but the rear of 
     the truck didn't seem to tilt very much at all.  I think I lifted the 
     front right wheel, instead of the left rear.  I'll have to wait to get 
     the pictures back.
     
        -Joel


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Subject: RTI revealed...
Author:  weidenhe@domain.elided at mime
Date:    8/11/98 9:58 PM


>        If this is truly the case, then Tom Mandera's 100WB ScoutII ramped 
a 63
>(63" on a 100WB) and my T'all ramped a 61.6 (74" on a 120"WB) so WOW,
     
>How can these two truck even be close?  I drove Tom's yesterday and it 
surely
>rides over things mine might not.
     
Joel:
  Did you see me drive to the top of the ramp?  I hope that photo come out!
Of course, I have a 131" wheelbase, and the 20 degree ramp at NWBRU was 
only a little over 100" long.  Certainly, width makes a difference, as you 
can go
up the same distance with less axle flex (I read Bill T's post while on 
the airplane)
I'm kind of surprised your Travelall didn't go more than that, cause I have 
3/4 ton
springs all around.  Perhaps the added frame flex a pickup has, with 
the cab and bed being separate, allowed me to go much further than if 
I had a one piece body bolted to the frame, which would reduce the 
frame twist that would be allowed.  This might also be where the long 
wheelbase
is an advantage, the longer wheelbase gives more frame distance and with it 
possibly more frame twist.
     
Allan Weidenheimer
72 1210 Pickup


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