when will it tip over??

[stumpcatcher]

Hi
I have 86 RANGER 2-door SuperCab 2.9LT 4X4, all stock.

If I am slowly driving laterally along a steepening hillside, at what angle will it tip over, 20 degrees, 30 degrees, 45degrees, or what??


thanks

 

[bobbywalter]

a second after the high side tire lifts off the ground.











you actually have to tip it over to find out, too many variables.

my truck will hold allot more angle then a stock type truck with an off the shelf 6 in lift kit due to my configuration of axles and suspension.


generally 25 degrees is about as far as most want to go without being scared.

 

[stumpcatcher]

Ok bobby.

So would you advise me not to go more than 25 degrees??

 

[martin]

As Bobby says, it depends on your configuration, but, 25 sounds like a recipe for brown underwear to me.

 

[Frank The Tank]

Id push it till it rolled then you know exactly what not to do next time.

 

[straycat]

Ok bobby.

So would you advise me not to go more than 25 degrees??

Drive it like you stole it!!! How are you measuring this degree angle? If you feel you are about to tip in a climb or a decent or a tilt going up or down a trail, you just need to stop at that point and back off. A lot has to do with the size of the tires, how much lift and flex a vehicle has, weight. Look at the rock climbers, they can take some steep angels with their vehicles. Check out their sites and see the angles they take to climb or descend a trail or cliff.

 

[tmcalavy]

Better yet, go hang with the rock climbers/trail busters and ride with one who has a roll bar and doesn't mind giving you a demonstration...you'll go home and put a roll bar on yours if you still want to test grades/angles, and don't forget the Depends...essential gear for newbs off the road.

 

[doorgunner]

Off the subject......War Story!........ I wish that I was wearing a Depends my first day in combat....




now back to Roll-over degrees

 

[dangerranger83]

Simple...

Glue a angle finder to a level part of the truck. Now get another vehicle and a buddy and a tie strap and hook it to the top of the vehicle somehow by looping it through the cab and around the roof. Now with one of you in the pulling vehicle and the other watching the angle finder, slowly start pulling the vehicle so that it tips. When the vehicle finally tips over makes sure you saw at what angle it did that. After that flip the truck back on its wheels. Repeat as necessary to get a good accuracy reading. Tipping over will vary based on which side is being tipped, the weight of the driver, if you have a fat chick ridding in the passenger side, how full your gas tank is and how much ranger lean you have.

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[PanamaExpat]

It will tip over when gravity lets you down.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The thing is you can be right on the edge and hit a bump or hole and the jostle will be enough to send you over as well. There is no hard and fast 23.875° tip over point. There are way too many variables to keep track of.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I don't have a clue but want to find out too. I'm picturing those cars at shows that hit a ramp and then drive on two wheels....those seem to be at more than 25 degrees. But then all the variables kick in......
Too bad, I just took a ranger to the crusher, I could have done as suggested with a strap and a video camera. If I remember I will next time.

Richard

 

[straycat]

Better yet, go hang with the rock climbers/trail busters and ride with one who has a roll bar and doesn't mind giving you a demonstration...you'll go home and put a roll bar on yours if you still want to test grades/angles, and don't forget the Depends...essential gear for newbs off the road.

^^^Good one, Bro!!! Yes!! Saftey first...always!!!

 

[tmcalavy]

Once in a blue moon I get a chance to go fishin' with a bro I went to grade school with and later spent five years with as college roommates. He still knows how to push my buttons by spontaneously taking a grade at an angle that scares the bee-jesus out of me, often at speed...we did worse in the old days and somehow survived, but I was able to bounce way back then so I keep safety foremost now. It's the only way I can keep my damaged gyro synched.