Grand Cherokee Off Road | Trail Damage and Badges
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Join us back on the trails at Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area (AOAA) in Pennsylvania as we Tackle the Jeep Badge of Honor Trail Barney Rubble. This trail is rated 7-8/10 on the Jeep Badge of honor App. It was an adventure!
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I’ll be brief: the video speaks for itself; amazing capabilities of the rigs. Matt, I am SO impressed and wish I were there. Brad, Sam our little mountain goat is growing into a valuable helper and videographer. I just love him.
All the best to all! Miss you. Keep on Jeeping safely with my greetings from Greece.
Nice to hear from you! Hope you are doing well.
Hey Brad, Raymond here, just a suggestion.. When we run into that side pulling situation, we usually wrap a rope sling around the wheel. Those things are almost as good as the frame in those situations. Great video, and be safe out there!
Good to know! Thanks for the tip. Hope you guys are doing well!
Yes. Soft shackle through wheel if possible.
Not sure why so many people want to run bow shackles on their vehicles before they need to be recovered. Losing clearance, making noises and can fall off from vibration. Of course you would need to take it off to actually hook it up and use it as well so what’s the point?
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I’m here for the rock crawling in a unibody
XJ is a rock crawling unibody. These Grand Cherokees aren’t.
@@pmrpartsGrand Cherokee is absolutely a unibody…
And I was doing a lot of rock crawling. Keeping up with the lifted Gladiators.
@@pmrpartsWK GCs chassis are indeed steel unibodies!
@@MrKozanitis I know Grand Cherokee is unibody. However it isn’t a very capable rock crawler.
@@dr.mattbickel4713 yours was the best of the Grand Cherokees but a stock XJ has more ground clearance. You could use a better recovery point on the rear.
I was frankly shocked that a simple tug like that bent what should be a rated recovery point. Even side loaded that should not have deformed so noticeably. But I was somewhat dismayed when you suggested tying on to the shaft of the towball might have been better. Good ghods no. Watch Matt's Off Road Recovery and Robert Pepper LS2FBC channels where they dissect how an unexpected shear load on those can lead to fatal consequences. Granted this was a 90° pull and the risk would have been practically zero, but still, not something I would ever consider doing. Go with a hitch receiver recovery point and D-ring, 100% good.
As I had mentioned neither were made to be loaded that direction. We talked about options and risks. The owner wanted to go with the less beefy but closed system. So that nothing slipped. We Cleared everyone out of the way and slowly proceeded with the recovery. It Wasn’t out of the ordinary that it bent. Wouldn’t have used it at all for a heavy pull.