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Originally Posted by SeanPlunk
How hard is it to rig up that hydraulic system? It seems like it'd be a real bitch.
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the hydraulics would be the easy part. Figuring out how to lever steering through a 6 foot swing arm and figuring out how to make the swing arms coil sprung AND hydraulically actuated. then putting in a package that wont grenade the first time it hits a rock is the hard part.
That said, as amazing as the articulation is, more conventional rock crawlers no doubt outperform this thing. There's only so much power you can put through a chain and complexity almost always adds fragility. Guys with built dana 60's and dana 80's on unimog (3:1, stronger than hummer) portals still break shit all the time.
Still, its an amazingly novel piece of garage engineering.
