Quote:
Originally posted by Toy Man:
Hmmm - well if you take the class, you will
be doing it Harold's way and that way is:

NO clutch or brakes. You start and stop
in gear with the ignition switch. Very
hard habit to break.

No gas. Only the very faintest touch of the
pedal on a steep ledge climb. Harold will
say 'too much' however light you are on the
pedal.

You spend 99 percent of your time at an
idle in 4x4 low, which at a 80:1 crawl
ratio means a pace like a VERY slow walk.
We covered about 15 miles in 3 1/2 days of
driving.

If this sounds radical to you, it will
become clear on the afternoon of the
third day and the morning of the fourth
day when touching the clutch/brake/gas
would mean the possibility of a roll-over
or injury. There are some INTENSE boulder/
ledge climbs near the end of the course.
Sounds like Harold hasn't driven a stock truck in a long time. We have trails steep enough that almost any 4X4 would require brakes to get down them.

Starting and stopping in gear looks cool, and saves wear on the clutch, but serves no purpose unless the vehicle is on an incline. For modern vehicles, it's not even something you can do without a clutch interlock bypass.

Depending on gearing, every vehicle will require a different amount of throttle and RPM to traverse a given obstacle.

It sounds a lot like Harold is teaching people how to drive his trucks, not their own real world vehicles, which have many limitations compared to a rock crawling rig.

I would recommend Bill Burke for your next lesson, you'll learn skills more suited to real world situations.

http://www.bb4wa.com/
_________________________
nom nom nom