Jeep Traction

[FiLtH]

   I never really drove the jeep much until lastnight. Going uphill it works fine. Coming downhill it gets whacky. Sometimes it feels like some greased the tires. Id start down a hill, not a very steep slope mind you, and it would just roll for the heck of it. Id recover and would be pointed acroos the slope rather than nose down the slope. As I started giving it gas, the jeep would move sideways rather than forward, and start to roll again.

  Any ideas?

[dedalos]

   I never really drove the jeep much until lastnight. Going uphill it works fine. Coming downhill it gets whacky. Sometimes it feels like some greased the tires. Id start down a hill, not a very steep slope mind you, and it would just roll for the heck of it. Id recover and would be pointed acroos the slope rather than nose down the slope. As I started giving it gas, the jeep would move sideways rather than forward, and start to roll again.

  Any ideas?

Do not drink and drive? 

[waystin2]

Have fun?

[CAP1]

BEFORE COMING down the hill, put it in 4 wheel low, and put the tranny in the lowest gear you can. then make sure to keep the nose pointed down, and take your time.

[FiLtH]

  Ya I tried low gear. Sometimes it seemed a little better starting off after I had rolled in 2nd though. Its the sideways movement that seemed whacked to me. Im thinking something may be wrong with it. It was on a slope, but very minor. Unless the grass was coated with grease.

[cactuskooler]

Just stick it in neutral, cross your fingers, and throw caution to the wind. Steeper the grade the better.

[Soulyss]

Just stick it in neutral, cross your fingers, and throw caution to the wind. Steeper the grade the better.

you forgot close your eyes.

[CAP1]

you forgot close your eyes.

isn't he supposed to yell "oh god oh god oh god!!"" too? 

[T24]

Exactly right......close yer eyes, yell 'GERONIMO', put that son of a gun in neutral and HANG ON!

[Yeager]

Ive always kind of gotten the feeling that the Ground Vehicle physics were just modified flight models, hence all that weird stuff that happens when you flip your tank over and it rolls and rolls and rolls and then lands upside down at the bottom of a hill.  then a few seconds later it uprights itself and off you go!  stuff like that...and I sometimes get the sensation with ground vehicles that they are running on a center rail and not on left and right side wheels/tracks.

I don't know how HTC has done it, I just get the feeling of being in a plane that cant generate any lift.

Not a complaint because I love tanking and GVing.  Just saying.

[CAP1]

uumm....you all want a laugh?

i thought he was talking about a REAL jeep.


 

[ink]

we have jeeps?????









 

[Jayhawk]

uumm....you all want a laugh?

i thought he was talking about a REAL jeep.


 

First time I read his and your post, I thought it was real too.    Something caught my eye about the title today though and I read it slower and realized he meant the game. 

[CAP1]

First time I read his and your post, I thought it was real too.    Something caught my eye about the title today though and I read it slower and realized he meant the game. 

oh thank god!! i'm not the only one!!   

[MajWoody]

oh thank god!! i'm not the only one!!   

I thought you were just funnin.