4wding in Western NC, unplanned.

Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
12/09/2018 at 15:54 • Filed to: Rover

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My sister is a nurse. Was on-call today, got called in. Cue me with Rover to get her past about 5 miles of 8" snow, then 17 miles of highway.

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Was there another 4wd available to do this with? Strangely enough, no.


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Kinja'd!!! random001 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/09/2018 at 16:01

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Hellooooooo nurse!

But yeah, that truck is sweet.


Kinja'd!!! For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/09/2018 at 16:02

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Bringing a medial professional on a Land Rover drive is a prudent decision.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden
12/09/2018 at 16:08

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She didn’t put on her seatbelt. smh.

Of course I forgot to remind her they existed, but still on her, sez i.

Biggest mistake, a classical  one, was actually not bringing the ride-along mechanic and a spare carb. Started to run a little dodgy on the way back.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > random001
12/09/2018 at 16:09

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It behaved itself better than expected, given I haven't flogged it/stress tested it much recently.


Kinja'd!!! Svend > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/09/2018 at 16:50

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That sounds like  1960s rural England.

Like an episode of Hearbeat or The Royal.

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Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Svend
12/09/2018 at 17:16

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Quite so.


Kinja'd!!! TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/12/2018 at 11:30

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Unplanned 4wdriving best 4wdriving, change my mind.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
12/12/2018 at 11:39

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I kept figuring that I’d come to a point in town with bare asphalt, so past my home road I went some of the way in 2wd to keep from snagging and beating up the t-case. Which was fine, except for all the dog-wagging, because 2wd throttle steer and ludicrously short wheelbase.

My Faireys that I had to rebuild with hand-cut nylon lockstrips... one of them was sticky and a PITA to get engaged at the top of the mountain. So I left them locked from there on. Did I mention I had to drive down from a mountaintop to get to my house, because I was up the hill in case my grandmother’s power went out?


Kinja'd!!! TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/12/2018 at 11:44

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Variety is the spice of life , and I bet coming down was a bit of a pucker moment. T he T-case is pretty stout so a day of driving with the front engaged isn’t the end of the world, IIRC the manual actually suggests it occasionally to help keep the hubs lubed up.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
12/12/2018 at 12:09

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Going back up was a bigger pucker, as the carburetion was a little dodgy, and it almost stalled out on the first stretch... so I had to back down, shift to 1-low, and try again. Coming down, I just left it in 2-low and didn’t brake, though there was that one corner....

I’d show you the route down doodled onto a satellite view, but the foliage is too much on the picture to pick out the road.