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Pushing limits?

Old Nov 11, 2010 | 10:09 AM
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The other day I took the jeep out and had a blast. The area in which we were had quite a few downed trees requiring either to drive over or follow a quick reroute. In some of the cases I got the Jeep tilted quite a bit, well enough to scare me anyway. It felt as it the cherokee was sitting on a 45 degree slope sideways, but that is most likely just my nerves exaggerating the angles. Question is at what point will a small lift cherokee get a little tipsy before going over. I hope to never find out, but an interesting question none the less.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 10:41 AM
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i'm not sure, but i can tell you that when i junked my last one, i rolled it over on it's side to make it easier to pull the trans/t-case. i used a 48" hilift to flip it over and had to put it on 2 cinder blocks stacked up with a 2x8 on top of them to get it up to even being tipsy....that was maxxing the jack out, i had to push it by hand to get it to go on over.......
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 10:44 AM
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when immobile, the vehicle will be substantially more stable that at any speed. you can get cool clinometer's pretty cheap.. ebay..
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by DougyFresh
i'm not sure, but i can tell you that when i junked my last one, i rolled it over on it's side to make it easier to pull the trans/t-case. i used a 48" hilift to flip it over and had to put it on 2 cinder blocks stacked up with a 2x8 on top of them to get it up to even being tipsy....that was maxxing the jack out, i had to push it by hand to get it to go on over.......
That sounds crazy, but would be a cool image.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 01:41 PM
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OT...Hey Dougy my first car was a 49 Studebaker with a bad transmission. it was 1962, and I got friends to tip it over so I could change the tranny.
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