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(2025-01-28, 09:19 PM)Kauri Wrote: Someone on the old forum (I can't remember who) once said something along the lines that the washboard smoothes out at about 5mph above the speed at which you lose control over the vehicle.

That's because the washboard rattles out all the bolts and screws holding your vehicle together, your vehicle disintigrates and you end up in the middle of the Saline Valley road seatbelted to your driver seat out in the open and in the middle of the road ...  Big Grin Ask me how I know ...  Rolleyes

I don't recall the dynamics and physics, but it is my understanding that speed causes and worsens washboard. In my experience, when I go slow, less than 10 mph, even in 4WD, my compact 4x4 trucks skittered about and could not be held in a straight line. Oddly, my full size 4x4 trucks didn't suffer this. I assume wheel base and track may be a factor. When I go fast, waggy dynamics persist and worsen with increased speed, my nerves fray and hardware falls out from under the dashboard, even on my Tacoma.

After a Hunter Mountain / Racetrack / Lippincott and south Saline Valley run one day in 2008, a substantial bolt fell out from under the dash near the steering column in the dark and fell on my throttle foot (in Saline I changed into shorts and sandals) while climbing South Pass; thereafter I had a persistent dashboard buzz near the base of the windshield.
DAW
~When You Live in Nevada, "just down the road" is anywhere in the line of sight within the curvature of the earth.
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Does anyone know....... - by VintageDUG - 2025-01-28, 03:37 PM
RE: Does any know....... - by Beardilocks - 2025-01-28, 03:58 PM
RE: Does any know....... - by VintageDUG - 2025-01-28, 05:16 PM
RE: Does any know....... - by Daymoth - 2025-01-29, 09:05 PM
RE: Does any know....... - by Brice - 2025-01-29, 11:20 PM
RE: Does anyone know....... - by Beardilocks - 2025-01-28, 05:44 PM
RE: Does anyone know....... - by Kauri - 2025-01-28, 09:19 PM
RE: Does anyone know....... - by DAW89446 - 2025-01-28, 09:41 PM
RE: Does anyone know....... - by Brice - 2025-01-28, 10:55 PM
RE: Does anyone know....... - by DAW89446 - 2025-01-29, 08:53 AM

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