How low do you let your 4by Lug??.

The R380 landrover Box is very Good, But also very light, can't see lugging .

doing them any good.


Cheers Axle.

Could you tell my missus that please!!....LOL.



Cheers Axle.

Just show her the thread.

LOL

Mmnnn, if its an auto leave it in drive, and the computer will always pick the best ratio for the job at hand. Although on Rosa buses I click the overdrive off coming downhill to let the exhaust brakes work better.
Cheers Pete

Hmmm A fallacy. If you do that when towing it will hunt up and down and kill itself.

Have you not read the threads on towing in 5th gear, or perhaps it should be
named " Why not to tow in 5th gear."

Lots of Nissan owners will vouch for that from 1998 on.

When towing in 5th (O/D) mine would hunt up and down on a fairly flat road and actually run 100deg HOTTER in 5th than in 4th.

Agree snoopyone, but The orinigal thread did not refer to towing . We have both an auto and man 4wd. In the auto (which is a very lazy auto and hates changing down) I either use the power button or knock it back to 3rd(4speed auto). But heat is a major killer of autos
Good discussion, best their has been on exploreoz for a while.
Cheers Pete

Madfish Pete,
bit off topic but those Mitsi Rosa buses are a great unit. Three of ours have just been retired with around 580000 on the clocks and 15000hrs on the engines. In that time no major mechanical issues at all, just niggly problems at the end of life ( electrics mainly). Steer tyre wear was a bit of an issue at first.

Have a good one

Yes till you get the alignment right it is a problem. We have a old footballers special with vinyl seats . The other three have been brought new and eqa one has got more refined. The latest 6speed man with the dohc motor is a cracker.
We have also had a good run out of our coaster, but I thinkit has only around 230000ks from memory.
Cheers Pete

They must have good torque Pete, even in 4th to pull from those revs.



Cheers Axle.

Yes Axle for a dohc it is not a peaky motor. I think they learn their lesson with the short stroke 3.2. When towing I drop back to fourth at 100ks to keep it at max torque.
I drive heaps of diff tds most days and my jack has got heaps more urge at low revs. No trouble to do a round about in fourth, and fouth pulls the same gearing as our old Paj did in fifth.
The secret to the low down torque in these motors was the variable intake lenght. In my young days and playing with warmed up motors, we could never get low down torque and top end. Mate had a souped up v12 jag with motec fuel injection. He made the very short intake runners himself. A 202 could beat it off the mark, but holy dooley when it hit 4500 rpm you had better be hanging on.
The standard redline was 7500rpm,. and this thing would hurdle past that. The intake noise was so good I always use to turn the radio off so I could listen to it with no back ground noises. Anyway I am getting off topic sorry.
Cheers Pete

Axle,
guess some people don't mind trying to put the bigends though the bottom of the sump.

Have a good one.

LOL!!.

Yes He was an over paid engineer, with two spares engines. But it only had a 70 mm stroke so piston speed would not have been that high, and being a v12 it was beautifully balanced. Plus it was only 5.3lt. He use to get more concerned about low oil temps if cruising in slow traffic.
CheersPete

That would depend on trottle openings, on a very slightly opened trottle it is not an issue. But I never lug up hills anyway, just a bit lazy on round abouts .On hills I will change down so it is on max toque in the next gear. Max Torque in the Jack is 3100rpm.
Cheers Pete