As Dr.Evil would say ....... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Oh yee of little faith. Why do you think that truck is known World Wide as the "Crawler Truck"?
Here is the Famous Marlin Czajkowski "Wood Trick" that he started doing wwaay back in the mid 90s. If you watch carefully, as the tire goes up and over the piece of wood, the drivetrain is shifted to the coast-side of each gear as the engine compression is used to slow the truck back down the wood without brakes. Then as the tire touches back down, you can see the tire just come to a complete 100% stand-still as the 1,047:1 gearing takes its time to go from the coast-side back to the drive-side of each gear.
(click here to download / 759 Kb)Here is another angle on the "Wood Trick"
(click here to download / 771 Kb)And here I am with Marlin's truck in Triple Low Range running through all five gears while in motion.
The gear ratios break down to the following (in Triple Low Range):
5th: 226:1
4th: 266:1
3rd: 386:1
2nd: 621:1
1st: 1,047:1
(click here to download / 719Kb)These videos and a couple more can be found on the very old (and un-linked)
Marlin Crawler Online Video webpage. Granted these videos were made on my prehistoric digital camera (Sony Mavica) back in ~ 2000, so they are pretty crappy quality but you can get the idea of what 1,047:1 looks like.
Regards,
BigMike
