Jane's first truly epic journey.
503Wagon
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Well Jane got her first true test of the lift/4WD on Monday. I would call it a total success. A friend and I went out past Estacada, Oregon to a road called "High Rock Road". Jane took pretty much anything we threw at her.
We started off on pavement and then it hit gravel road. She was a little sloppy on the gravel due to the larger tires and the fact that they have a super soft sidewall. Got the hang of it and was cruising at roughly 35-40mph the whole time. We then ran into some foot deep snow. The winter force tires did epic in the snow. The lack of ground clearance got me stuck once going up...but just a bit of jockeying and we got right out. After the snow we found a couple of mud trails and just cruised down them. The tires do pretty well in the sloppy mud as well. Hit some literally middle of the woods trails and the only real issue was stumps, lack of ground clearance is a bitch. Last leg of the drive was basically a swamp. The water was 8-10" deep in most places. Didn't even slow her down. My buddy Jimmy was VERY impressed with the little wagon.
Here is a cut up video of the day. It is about ten minutes long, if you dont like the music just mute it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mtXYwrFnc
We started off on pavement and then it hit gravel road. She was a little sloppy on the gravel due to the larger tires and the fact that they have a super soft sidewall. Got the hang of it and was cruising at roughly 35-40mph the whole time. We then ran into some foot deep snow. The winter force tires did epic in the snow. The lack of ground clearance got me stuck once going up...but just a bit of jockeying and we got right out. After the snow we found a couple of mud trails and just cruised down them. The tires do pretty well in the sloppy mud as well. Hit some literally middle of the woods trails and the only real issue was stumps, lack of ground clearance is a bitch. Last leg of the drive was basically a swamp. The water was 8-10" deep in most places. Didn't even slow her down. My buddy Jimmy was VERY impressed with the little wagon.
Here is a cut up video of the day. It is about ten minutes long, if you dont like the music just mute it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2mtXYwrFnc
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