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What threshold was assumed here? If a higher threshold is used, do we see only vortices and rare gusts produce a flux?

What exact kit are you running? what uca lca spring rate etc?

cool i am looking at a tacoma with a mid travel kit already on it hope it works out on the deal

I do this every year (winters are tough here with salt/sand/chemicals). But it's not a thorough, permanent fix. I basically sand/wire brush everything I can reach, then go over it with Rustoleum high-heat spray, flat black. Looks great and the results last , even through most of the winter, but towards the end you can see the rust coming through. How did yours come out? Do you know of a more thorough, permanent solution??

what kinda of bump stops are those? are they bolt ons?

Hi, what kind of shocks? what lbs of your coils?

looks like I'm gonna replace the whole rear axle... It's time for me to get rid of mine though.... it's been a helluva ride but I'm done putting all this money into it...

Yeah - definitely no fun. I've also got a 95 4runner - been thinking of swapping in my rebuilt rear 3rd from the FJ since it's now surplus to requirement on the FJ and has an elocker built in. Will need to modify the housing to get it in is the only bad thing...

that just happened to my 95 4runner... it was bad... it's in the shop right now... probably gonna cost me half of what the truck is worth.... fuck my life...

Nice crawlin!!!!

I know how it goes...one mod leads to another. I'll keep watching for your slow mo video. Hopefully I'll have a inchworm case in mine someday!

The bushings need geasing :) The truck has been sitting quite a while.

I was looking through videos I have offline and unfortunately, I don't have any good super slo-mo crawling videos in rocks (lame excuse: wheeling just with the one vehicle and in the really tough spots, my buddy is the spotter and not shooting video). lame nonetheless. It's a shame as the Inchworm is amazing in the really rocky stuff. The best I have is a ledge climb in odessa canyon here on youtube, but even there I wasn't in low-low. I shoot a new video, but the axle is still off the FJ...

Curious about the creeping as well. I'm looking at buying this kit.

Old video I know but any vids of it in action on the rocks?

That might be almost as clean as it gets. I did one more long day on the front (tcase forward), but am running out of steam :) Also, figured out there's not much rust under all that grease and dirt (grease was probably a great protection, actually). Going to patch up the bits of rust there are with some POR15 and then get the axle back in there.  This was fun, but dying to drive it again now.

That might be almost as clean as it gets. I did one more long day on the front (tcase forward), but am running out of steam :) Also, figured out there's not much rust under all that grease and dirt (grease was probably a great protection, actually). Going to patch up the bits of rust there are with some POR15 and then get the axle back in there. This was fun, but dying to drive it again now.

The Inchworm comes with the blue powercoat - it's their trademark thing. Mine looked more like Utah before the clean :) I'm probably going to match the fronts, which are Kings. The back suspension is a problem as it can't keep up with the front - not sure what I'm going to do long term. Either way, hope the new rear axle holds up longer than the stock one.

wow alot cleaner, at first i thought you put another transfor case in there so clean got update vid yet

Why is ur transmission blue? Did u replace it? What shocks are u going to run on that beast! Fox piggy backs 2.5!?

Wayy to easy for a stock FJ

Does it creek that bad when driving?

Awesome, I cant remember who that was though...:(

Wow, So many runs and so many years, Mark Thank you for posting this. I'm sure I said so on the FJ forums, but good to see I can find it years later. never delete these things.

is it hard to do? i have a 4 door 2010 jeep

for the longest time i thought you were going in reverse because most people put the camera behind their tire looking forward. i was thinking dang it looks like hes going pretty fast and makin some good turns in reverse

sweet ride!

I remember the first time I climbed this one... scared the crap out of my passenger just as much as it scared me. I tried not to think of how many times I'd flip before reaching the bottom. Nice job.

why don't you remove this vid, it's clearly a mistake....... or not?

@artvarmint I drove this road in a VW Beetle (downhill) around 1980. I don't think the VW would have made it going uphill. It wasn't geared low enough

@artvarmint I drove it in a VW Beetle around 1980. I drove it downhill. I don't think the VW was geared low enough to make it uphill.

Thanks so much for posting this video. I drove down this trail in the late 70's but could not take any pictures and did not have a video. I've told folks of this treacherous drive and now I can share what I was talking about!!

what is that some kind of joke. I guess it is supposed to be funny cus that is a wimpy hill.

Yeah, this was a bulk upload of videos - pretty clear this shouldn't have been in the list (what's the emoticon for embarrassed?) :)

@headonastick I sent a PM reply, but for anyone else following along, it's a $5k kit. And it's a crazy good setup - the ability to absorb high speed bumps is way beyond what was possible with moderate aftermarket shocks (bottoming out, sustained high speed running). I've actually not yet been able to bottom out this kit. Crazy.

@FJ007ruthless - also on mileage - my mpg is so bad in the truck with all the weight, the tires, etc. etc. that I haven't even thought about what the mpg implications of the crawler box are :)

@FJ007ruthless - Sorry I missed your prior comment - I'm also running 33" (and change) tires - as shown there, the vehicle had OME 3" lift all round. The inchworm as implemented here is a 4 speed t-case: so it has the 1:1, and then has the option of a 2.28:1, a 5.7:1, and then by engaging both reduction boxes 13:1. So you have more options than stock (which is just 2.566:1) - one somewhat faster than stock, then two crawl options much slower and "way the heck" slower than stock.

Don't play into the Jeeper's hands. There's no one supreme wheeling machine. There is one fact though....your FJC will outlast 3 Rubicons and with 1/4 of the repairs.

Hahaha so true!

Not if they were already stacked before I got there, right :)

ummm....a little dry? lol

with the stock streeties, luv it. Shows how capable the FJ really is with a good pilot

Nice truck, never seen a blue one of those before. hit that hill with more speed and i bet you could catch some air

lol some people just seem plain afraid to GIT SUM!!! :D Good lesson learned about momentum and letting your suspension do what it's supposed to do! Trust the truck!

I have a 94 toyota pickup SAS'd running on 35x13.5x15 toyo mt's. I know cv's are easy to break with the IFS and i got really tired of fucking them up, so i decided to sas after i fucked another ring and pinnion.. Riht now my truck is just sitting in the driveway waiting for parts, and the stupid home owners people are bitching because its not a "running vehicle".. Should heard the select words i told them when i found out they were going to charge me 5$ for every day it sat out there..

Ah, you'll love the lower gears - what rig do you have? The risk of breaking stuff with the super low gears is in when you try and start moving on something you can't get over/out of -- there's no real risk of breakage in the higher rev stuff when you're already moving. I've bust a CV once when I couldn't get moving, dumped power through the crawler and since the thing couldn't cut out by stalling, it cut out be overloading and snapping the CV. :D Ooopsy...

i would have tooken a higher gear, but sometimes you just have to go owell cause that was the past.. But you learn from mistakes.. I really need to get my dual t-case setup already.. got most the parts, just waiting for my 5:71's and adapter plate from marlin :D

Yeah, the high revs kinda fool one into thinking there's a lot of wheel rotation going on. But with the very low gearing there really isn't - you can pretty much see the wheel rotation in the video. In reality, I should probably have been in a slightly higher gear, but aside from the high tones on the video, no foul.

easy on the skinny pedal my friend.. treat her like a nice lady! :) I dont think it would be verry fun to have to blow a ring and pinion.

Also say "hi" to Jim for me.