Dakar 4wd Unbog Tricks
Submitted: Friday, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:17
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Robin Miller
Watching Dakar the other day and saw a cute device used by the Volkswagon team to get out of deep sand bog , anyone else seen or used this ?
As the car bogged on a ridge the co-driver got out and quickly slid off cover plates on the floorplan below the B pillar - then to my surprize what appeared to be a hydrualic ram built into the B pillar area extended itself , as it came down a plate was quickly put on the sand under it.
Apparently there is one each side , and all off a sudden the car had jacked its whole body up and clear of the sand.
Sort of like twin air jacks - looked pretty slick actually.
The other one - which I understand is more common , is rather than have a
snorkel , there is a manually operated flap valve under the bonnet , and if water looks deep etc, this is operated and closes the air intake and opens an intake connected via the firewall into the cabin.