New Jeep Commercial

Has anyone seen the new jeep commercial where you see a Jeep parked with one front wheel on a huge rock? A woman comes by and asks the guy if he's leaving. then she parks her Jeep on the rock. My question is do the new Jeeps have a limited slip front diff? The right front wheel is off the ground and does not spin. Jim 78 CJ7 84 CJ7 85 CJ7

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Jim Downey
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Jim Downey did pass the time by typing:

If it did have limited slip/lockers, both front wheels would spin in the same direction. An open diff would make it spin faster. Where a brake based LSD would stop the free wheel, but I didn't think the Rubi had that type of LSD.

I suspect that was done with rearwheel drive only.

You do know that fake rock hides a ramp, right? :)

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DougW

It could have done that with Quadradrive.

Jerry

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Jerry Bransford

It's a Rubi. Don't they lock front and rear?

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TJim

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L.W.(ßill)

stupid commercial. Poor articulation, hell i could do that with a stock 65 VW beetle

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Paul Calman

-Willys edition Wrangler?!...Retro-ish wheels/tires,Rocker guards and a sound bar? ..What else,a four banger? -Negetive-K says The Hank.What do you guys and Gals think? ..Now a modern Power Wagon...hmm.

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:58 -0800, "Paul Calman" shared the following:

hahaha! You're right! You could do even better if you ripped the sway bar off of that otherwise stock VW beetle! How do I know?

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travis
2 wheel drive will act like that.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

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Mike Romain

yes.

-- bob z.

"people with less brain power than you are doing more difficult things everyday"©

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bob zee

Nice!

- JG

travis wrote:

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Jeff Gross

Cool site, brings back a lot of fun memories. My first "car" was a 36 horsepower 1958 Baja Bug, next, a Myer's Tow'd (still have the chassis and

1970 "special construction" street-legal title), and a fleet of other VWs including 2 "Baja Buses" made from a 69 and 70 type 2's. Dude, put the battery in a box with a vent (*strap it down, it hurts in a rollover), seal the holes in the floorpan (use rubber plugs for draining and hose-out),. and you'll get more low-end torque out of a 4-into-1 exhaust with a restrictive muffler. Disk brake conversion is probably the best upgrade you can do for the money. have fun
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Paul Calman

how does one attain this 'more torque' from the special 'restrictive' muffler?

-- bob z.

"people with less brain power than you are doing more difficult things everyday"©

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bob zee

Bob, torque is produced when an engine works into a resistance. Let an engine run on a torque-measuring device with no load on the engine, and the produced torque will be nil. Place a braking load on the engine and the amount of torque produced will suddenly and dramatically increase.

Same with an exhaust system, the engine needs a certain amount of restriction to work into to produce maximum torque. Run with a wide-open exhaust system like headers only used in a dragster and they produce lots of HP at high rpms. Restricting the exhaust reduces high rpm HP but boosts low-end torque. That's why header and exhaust design is as much black-art as it is science. And why the urge to go to so-called "high performance low-restriction" exhaust and cats is not a good thing to succumb to for a Jeep because doing so can actually reduce the amount of torque produced... which is so important for a vehicle that sees much offroading.

Jerry

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L.W.(ßill)

Damned good answer, Jerry. VW knew about it, the bus muffler differed from the beetle muffler in that it (bus) only had one outlet, instead of 2, with the same sized outlet, and a different tailpipe to avoid damage. This was a good muffler to put on a stock beetle in mountain country. BMW's have always seemed to run better with the stock exhaust system, than any aftermarket, those engineers know what they are doing. I have seen lots of CJs running headers, big tubes, and flowmaster mufflers. The 4 and 6 cyl engines sound even sillier than an 8 with this setup, and are LESS functional for most off-road use. People just don't seem to understand that louder doesn't make it better. When we stopped using megaphones on racing buggies and used small corvair "turbo-mufflers" to comply with those pesky racing rules, we found that the cars ran better, the ride was more pleasant, and we could see more wildlife, before it got scared off.

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