PhatXJ
NAXJA Forum User
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- ID Native in WA
Moab had quite a few aspects to it that were a bit new to me. One of the main things I noticed was all the ledges. On several occasions when dropping off of them, I came down on my RE Drop Brackets, and I came down hard on them.
Question is, if I was running long arms, that same ledge would have came up hard, right near the middle of the arms. The way the drop brackets are designed, where they hit, it's not on the arms at all, and all the force is reciprocated right up into the frame rails distributing it out. If it would have been the long arms, and the force was great enough, bendage, or breakage of a joint would happen for sure.
I understand the concept of having more clearance with the arms, thats for sure, but I came down hard, several times meaning they didn't "just barely hit". Two or three inches higher they still would have it. Are all the different typed of longarms out there both custom and mfg'ed just plain strong enough for such blows? Or are they often dammaged this way?
On a completely different subject, there was the whole deal with front ends "unloading" while going up such ledges when to much lift and/or too much flex up front was in the equasion. I guess that's a whole nother topic....
Where I wheel here in WA and ID, having as much flex as possible has always been an advantage, but in Moab I didn't see this to be the case at all.
Am I just thinking out loud?
Question is, if I was running long arms, that same ledge would have came up hard, right near the middle of the arms. The way the drop brackets are designed, where they hit, it's not on the arms at all, and all the force is reciprocated right up into the frame rails distributing it out. If it would have been the long arms, and the force was great enough, bendage, or breakage of a joint would happen for sure.
I understand the concept of having more clearance with the arms, thats for sure, but I came down hard, several times meaning they didn't "just barely hit". Two or three inches higher they still would have it. Are all the different typed of longarms out there both custom and mfg'ed just plain strong enough for such blows? Or are they often dammaged this way?
On a completely different subject, there was the whole deal with front ends "unloading" while going up such ledges when to much lift and/or too much flex up front was in the equasion. I guess that's a whole nother topic....
Where I wheel here in WA and ID, having as much flex as possible has always been an advantage, but in Moab I didn't see this to be the case at all.
Am I just thinking out loud?