The comical part about your retort is that there is still a chance
What are the chances of loosing a Detroit when your air or brake lines go? Or your little switch takes a dump, or the compressor stops working.
So how far do you take your line of thought?
Manual trans- No extra fluid lines or cooler to worry about. All those internal clutch plates, bands and servos to have a CHANCE failure.... Oh wait, clutches can pack with mud, the hyd throwout brg blow it's seal; There has been more than one person at the end of a tow strap with trans probs.
Manual steering box- With all those extra pumps, hydraulic lines, coolers... too much stuff to go wrong. Brad Lovell was taken out of the Oct. Pomona Rockcross event due to an internal ram failure, a little nut inside backed off... sounds too complicated.
Carb- Because even with all the advancements in FI, who would want to take the CHANCE of a wire or little switch failing and an on board computer to control it... Have you ever looked inside one? There are all kinds of little circuits and diodes and wires and stuff that stand a CHANCE at a failure.
Mechanical fuel pump- I've always thought the failure rate of electric pumps seemed high, there is a whole industry that makes replacement electric fuel pumps. Another part that has ruined peoples day out on the trail. Of course there is a CHANCE that even a mechanical pump could have a seal fail, so maybe the fuel tank should be mounted on the roof and a gravity feed system is the way to go.
I am sure there are a ton more parts that fit that line of thought, don't even get me started on engines, with all those spinning parts at high RPM with a torque load. Some engines even have a couter balance shaft that spins the opposite way that the crank and cam spins. Bogger Bill (Brier) has had so many engine failures out wheeling, he should be trying electric motors.
Everything on your rig is complicated and ran by little switches, springs, dohickies and widgets.
Maybe the greenies have it right and the hiking boot is the ultimate off road machine.... oh wait I've broken a shoelace before too....
Jobless said:
]But that doesn't change the fact that ARB's are, and will always be :rb: for offroad use.
I had a epiphany with those words.... when it comes right down to it,
all lockers are :rb:. Doug Shipman is the man, running around in his open diffed series Land Rover. When we did Pucker Ridge at Rimrock a number of years ago, he did it open and needed less assistance than many of the locked up rigs did.
So I am thinking it's time to go back to open diffs....
if you are locked, you are :rb: . Guess I'll just leave my little switches off.
