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“Smooth” is relative. When parking in my garage, the auto hold doesn’t want me to let me creep. It brings me to a stop. And once stopped, I can’t get it to move forward until I hit the throttle. And hitting the throttle is going to give way more velocity than simply easing up off of the brake...

I didn’t say that aluminum is heavier than steel. The kits include different pieces. A complete rival kit in aluminum with engine skid + evap skid + 2 floor skids would be around 90 lbs. Aluminum evap skid + 2 aluminum floor skids would be 64 ish lbs. The steel JR kit with evap skid and 2...

Fantastic video. This illustrates how that seat deformation absorbs the impact energy without bending/breaking the cervical spine. Imagine if the seat stayed upright. His neck would have been bent posteriorly to 90 degrees while his body flew forward and his head stayed behind.

I didn’t know this was an option until about a month ago when I accidentally turned it on. Once turned on, it made it difficult to creep forward, inch by inch, to get my Maverick all the way into my garage without running into my work bench. Once I figured out the problem, I turned it off. I...

The Dana Spicer Smart Connect PTU and Advantek RDU don’t use gear oil. They use a “ultra low viscosity” lubricant that has been described as being similar to 5w20 with an added friction modifier. Could the smell have been ATF? Yeah, that is a possibility. However, if the ATF was overheated, it...

It’s not a Haldex system. It is a Dana Spicer Avdantek disconnecting AWD system. When it is not using awd, the driveshaft and RDU stop spinning. This is achieved by a clutch pack in the PTU in front of the driveshaft, and then a clutch pack inside of the RDU, after the driveshaft, pinion gear...

The Dana Spicer Advantek RDU is not sealed. It has a vent tube. As air gets hot, it expands. Without a breather tube, the differential would become pressurized, which would then blow all of the lubricant out through the seals for the axles and drive shaft. The smell that I was smelling, was the...

The rival kit includes engine skid (26lbs) + evap skid (14 lbs), but does not include the floorboard skids. Each floor board skid is larger than the engine skid. If the rival kit included the 2 floorboard skids, it would weigh at least 90 lbs. My truck already has an engine skid, so buying the...

New particulate emission regulations go into effect for 2027. Currently we are at something like 4 mg/mile of PM2.5, the fine particulates that cause asthma, COPD, lung cancer and heart disease. The 2027 rule restricts cars and light trucks to 0.5 mg/mile, which means they are all going to end...

The GPF will go directly behind the cat or behind the secondary cat, depending on how the final configuration is set up. The telltale sign is that it will have a pressure sensor at the front, to know when the GPF regeneration cycle needs to start, and a temperature sensor at the back to know if...

That’s not just vintage, it’s obscure. Monark 125? Never heard of it. The Monark makes the Hodaka Combat Wombat seem absolutely pedestrian in comparison.

It’s actually not a “bump” in the road that’s going to cause contact, it is a dip in the road. As your rear tires go into the dip, the nose of your Maverick is high, the pickup rear is low, the trailer tongue is low and rear of the trailer is high. That is going to bring the tialgate into close...

My commentary is quite useful to someone that is considering buying a Maverick, but has not yet decided which trim level. And are you a MTC moderator? Who says you get to decide what content goes in this thread and what doesn’t?

I mean, sure, you could start with a no-options xl and then upgrade the cameras and radar and still come in $9k cheaper. But there’s no comparison between the two. The closest comparison is an xlt with Lux package, which is what, $2k less than the lariat? Then add in $1,000 in parts to upgrade...

Wow. Reading all the posts in this thread is wild. The amount of dedication and time commitment to make this work is mind boggling. In my mind, I’m like, “ok I need to work X number of hours of overtime to afford the model that includes these features that I want”, rather than “let me spend 100...

Fork: RockShox 35 Silver TK, lockout, 130mm, fender mounts Shock: RockShox Deluxe Select R, rebound adjust, 45x190mm I rode an all carbon Specialized Roubaix for 15 years. But I’m AARP aged now and my neck and wrists can’t tolerate a road bike, so I got an eMTB. I had the day off, so this...

That's true. 100 ft elevation per mile is nothing. That is only a 1.9% grade. The thing is, there's a 99.999% chance that his 10 mile ride is not one long, even, uphill climb for 10 miles straight. Most likely he's hitting 10-12% up hill and downhill sections. Common sense prevails.

Have you considered a Turbo Tero? The Levo is a one trick pony for bombing down single track trails. If you're old, your not exactly bombing down trails anymore, right? The Tero is still a full suspension eMTB with a dropper post and can handle single track trails at moderate speeds. But with...

If there was no clutch in the RDU, the rotation of the rear tires would drive the differential and drive shaft, increasing parasitic drag. By putting a clutch at the front PTU and rear RDU, it allows the drive shaft and rear differential to come to a stop, when AWD is not needed. The tremor...

One revelation from this trip is that if you work the awd very hard, like doing 3-4 back to back steep climbs with lots of wheel spin, you’ll start to smell clutch pack from the PTU or RDU, then if you keep pushing it further, you’ll soon find yourself in 2wd and a message on the dash saying...