What not to do with your Arctic Cat Prowler...

[darkday]

On 3 wheel drive vehicles if your pulling wheel loses traction and all you have is the rear pushing your front end is too light and you can flip

Uhhh wow. Thank you JD for giving me true 4wd. I've been pretty close to flipping many times and never thought about how non-true 4wd would have hindered the situation. You make a very solid point there!

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

most times when i am climbing and i loose traction it's on the tire that is spinning.lol i go straight up the rhino has true 4 wheel drive and when locked it walked sideways when it slipped to. any utv truck car or anything with slide it the direction it is slipping so if you have all 4 wheels turning and you start to go in one direction well your gonna go in that direction 3 or 4 wheels won't stop you. i have been to to many truck and tractor pulls road atv to know that just because you have 4 wheel frive that don't mean you gonna go straight. thats why them trucks in them tractor pulls go out of bounds alot before they get to the end the truck goes in the least amount of resistanse. if anything if you have a really good set of tires and one of your front tires wasn't turning and the other was it would help to keep the front end striaght because then you would have the thread of the none turning tire digging into the mud and stopping it from sliding side to side. as for as flipping i always told my son and his freinds to cost back down the hill or incline then start back up never hit the brakes or try to engage the clutch while your backing down.

 

['Bota Fan]

All of it's a shame. Waste of a good machine just to be stupid.

But what really ticks me off is that the fool with the camera just stood still so he could get it on film. The driver could have been seriously hurt and in need of medical attention.

People and their priorities!

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

anything for 5 seconds of fame on youtube lol

 

[Skipholiday]

most times when i am climbing and i loose traction it's on the tire that is spinning.lol .

you keep putting in these climbing hills i run in the swamps where it's all mud . i know 4 wheels pulling would be better yes but i also know i have never been limited to where i can go in the mud by having 3 wheels fully pulling. i don't do no mountian climbing i run the swamps. the only thing that limits me is the air intake and the clutch enlosure vents.

You contradict your self a little here Tommy..

 

[SnowRidge]

I'm curious. Will someone explain to me how your four wheel drive is really a three wheel drive. If this is in reference to one of the wheels spinning when it loses traction, I think it's a bit of a misnomer. If it's something else, what am I missing?

 

[Skipholiday]

I'm curious. Will someone explain to me how your four wheel drive is really a three wheel drive. If this is in reference to one of the wheels spinning when it loses traction, I think it's a bit of a misnomer. If it's something else, what am I missing?

On true 4 wheel drive vehicles when they are locked both front wheels are locked together and both rear are locked together. All 4 wheels turn no matter what.
On the limited slip vehicles (that say 4 wheel drive but in reality are only 3), when the wheels are locked if one gets hard to turn the power switches to the free wheel~!

 

[SnowRidge]

On true 4 wheel drive vehicles when they are locked both front wheels are locked together and both rear are locked together. All 4 wheels turn no matter what.
On the limited slip vehicles (that say 4 wheel drive but in reality are only 3), when the wheels are locked if one gets hard to turn the power switches to the free wheel~!

Counting tractors, we have five four wheel drive vehicles. The Power Trac aside, which has four individual wheel motors, none of them have locking or limited slip front differentials, yet we never refer to them as three wheel drives. As a matter of point, two of them have neither locking nor limited slip rear differentials, and we certainly don't consider them two wheel drives, which they would be following your example.

Years ago I use to have to clear a road with a huge four wheel drive that had differential locks at both ends. With both differentials locked, it was impossible to steer. We never operated with the front differential locked for that reason. It was still a four wheel drive.

To me, the term three wheel drive for any four wheel drive that doesn't happen to have a locking or limited slip front end seems kind of excessive, if not outright misleading.

So, is this something specific to the ATV/UTV community, or is it narrower than that?

 

[darkday]

That's why it's a LSD in front and not just a straight locking front.. It only locks when you are slipping.

I don't see how 3-wheel drive is misleading though... Only 3 wheels are getting power so you say it doesn't deserve getting called 3-wheel drive ? I don't have a problem with people calling their 3 wheel drive vehicles 4wd, heck I do it on my truck. But denying that it is a 3wd ?

 

[Skipholiday]

Counting tractors, we have five four wheel drive vehicles. The Power Trac aside, which has four individual wheel motors, none of them have locking or limited slip front differentials, yet we never refer to them as three wheel drives. As a matter of point, two of them have neither locking nor limited slip rear differentials, and we certainly don't consider them two wheel drives, which they would be following your example.

To me, the term three wheel drive for any four wheel drive that doesn't happen to have a locking or limited slip front end seems kind of excessive, if not outright misleading.

So, is this something specific to the ATV/UTV community, or is it narrower than that?

My bad. Since this was a topic about the Arctic Cat I was referring to UTV's and not tractors. If a vehicle doesn't lock all wheels and it is called a 4 wheel drive vehicle that is misleading.
Calling one 3 wheel drive that is sold as a 4 wheel drive that isn't truly a 4 wheel drive is just being honest~!

That's why it's a LSD in front and not just a straight locking front.. It only locks when you are slipping.

I don't see how 3-wheel drive is misleading though... Only 3 wheels are getting power so you say it doesn't deserve getting called 3-wheel drive ? I don't have a problem with people calling their 3 wheel drive vehicles 4wd, heck I do it on my truck. But denying that it is a 3wd ?

Same here my Z71 says 4 wheel drive and its not even a good 3.
Not misleading at all if that's all that turn.... Truth is good..