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Skinny has the skinny = reliability is everything. It is disheartening to see a lifted, monster-tired, turbo charged truck stuck someplace because it wont start or run right. Unless its one of those chrome-plated sissy trucks then thats hilarious 8<)
Yes, preyn2, I saw that during the floods of '83 in Tucson: food was helo'd in to folks on the other side of a normally dry wash, flooded from recent rains. Next morning it was dry again. We panic easy.
I wouldn't take a brand new car 1300 miles across several states with no tools or fluids.
I have just as much "sense of adventure" as the next guy, been on several. Thats why I wouln't do it again. Being broke down alongside the highway is not an adventure, its a pain in the keester.
Yes, bobbers are fine with those tires and even bigger.
Distance between the centers of the rear axles is 48 inches, distance from the center of a 49 inch tire to the edge is 49/2 = 24 1/2 inches. Distance from the center of the other tire to its edge is also 24 1/2 inches. Add them together...
A CUCV is like a horse : The animal , even if the aquisition cost is FREE, will cost you over time. Shoes, vet bills, medicine, feeders, waterers, corral maintenance. You can see the analogy.
Oh, the thermal image of the M35A2 in my avatar is taken in the 3-5 micron band. See how it shows that the bearing on the center axle is too tight (white = hot)
Look at the data sheet, guys, this camera operates in the 7-14 micron IR band. Its not the near IR band that a simple cheapo silicon sensor can see, nor is it the 3-5 micron band that many FLIR systems use. The 7-14 band is longwave, that is, it senses objects that are just warm, dont have to be...