[rescue] My new toy in Laurel MD!

[Al Potter]

kurt at k-huhn.com said:
> At the Uwharrie 
> trails I would regularly motor right through stuff in my Bronco that 
> would completely bind up a Hummer.

Uwharries?

That's HOME!

> Really?  They must have been doing it wrong :)

As much as I hated `em, I agree.  If the civ versions are the same, driving 
a hummer in the slop takes some training.  There's a "locker" in both diffs, 
so you should never fully loose traction unless all four wheels are off the 
ground.

What a lot of folks never learn is that the driver sometimes must ride the 
brakes while gently accellerating in order to get the diffs to lock.

Sounds wierd, but as it was explained to me, its a quality of the type of 
limited slip (a gleason torsen design IIRC) gearing in the diff.

Then again, it could have been total BS.  I've never actually had one of the 
diffs open to see inside.



AL