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Off roading is dangerous. One mistake can cause your car to fall off a hole, and it takes some doing to recover.  Or you could total your vehicle.  Thus you need a good navigator, or guide, or point man (to point how you are to negotiate an obstacle.  You must know how to make repairs too.




Sheared shaft


Building fire from jumper cable

Car vs wild - some ingenious tactics in off roading

 

I learn a lot from this car vs wild episodes at Discovery Channel. The main protagonists here are Bill Wu and  and Gary Humphrey.   Take this river crossing for instance using empty drums.

Some ingenious solutions:

1.  The Jeep's engine took in water. There is a danger of hydro lock and wrecking the connecting rods and the engine.  Solution:    remove the spark plugs and have the engine spew out the  water from the spark plug socket holes.  To finally remove the water, Bill put in tequila in cylinder and incinerated the same to vaporize the water.  The engine finally restarted.  Wow.

2.  There was an almost 45 degree drop and could not go down further without endanger the vehicle falling off the steep grade.  Solution:  Bill removed the two rear wheels, had them dragged as anchor.  The friction of the rear drums slowed down their descent.  wow again

3.  There was a scene too where the Ruby was tilted dangerously to a dangerous side (drop off to a river) after the Ruby slipped or made the wrong turn.  The vehicle was righted through an ingenious system of pulleys and straps.   About winching, we were advised not to anchor to trees.  But when your life is in danger, you forget about the trees -  you watch our for your survival

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