GBrown 1867 Build

[sonoma]

There's nothing worse than hearing on the radio "Gordon Rolled!!!" as we're a few miles ahead at that point. Heading back to the scene you try your best not to make a mistake that makes you another "incident" but it's hard when the adrenaline starts flowing!

One part Gordon didn't mention... when he rolled, his roof antenna snapped off. He immediately tried calling us for help as soon as they rolled, but his radio didn't transmit far enough for use to hear it... as we continued to head on ahead not knowing what happened.

The last truck in the group, Bob and Sharyn, had MIRACULOUSLY managed to stop about 30 yards away, as they needed an "urgent, can't wait any longer" bathroom break that was just within yelling distance. As she got out, she told Bob she thought she heard voices (which was Gordon, yelling for help down the hill) and Bob turned over his shoulder to see Gordon's truck at the bottom of the embankment.

Crazy coincidence that helped us all realize what happened... without that happening, we may have made it to the pavement in Baker before realizing Gordon was missing. Pretty scary thought, especially if injuries had been involved.

We were thrilled to find Gordon and Mike both walking around, seemingly fine. Took everybody a while to decompress before the recovery plan was put in place... luckily, Connor had trailered RSV-1 to Barstow, so the trailer wasn't far! All in all, an exciting, ******, but "Thankful" Thanksgiving weekend...

Glad you're OK buddy... shit happens.

This gave me goosebumps. I can't believe how that urgent bathroom break and the location of the rollover were so close to each other...In retrospect I'm glad there was a woman co-driving. We always take a million urgent bathroom breaks.

 

[Cleave]

Right, lets think about his, the airbag sensor can't be "de-sensitized", otherwise all kinds of mofos would do it...you either disable them or you don't...

Yeah, no, the sensors are always on...

Front Impact Sensors - YouTube

Ford no longer uses those types of sensors for airbag deployment, those sensors are on/off switches with a ball that moves to make contact with two leads when the vehicle is subjected to high impact forces, they only work in a limited direction so you had to have multiple sensors all over the vehicle, ford uses 2 velocity sensors and a rollover sensor (I can't remember that one's official name right now, but that gives you an idea of what it does) now, these are the same sensors that give us the readouts when you go to the offroad menu in the instrument cluster screen and want to see what angle your truck is leaning at, they are not on/off sensors and allow the SRS control module to change it's parameters for airbag deployment based on driving mode, they even allow there to be multiple stages of air bag deployment to better suit which kind of impact you are in depending on how severe the accident is

 

[Wilson]

Ok was Gbrown in off-road mod cleave? And are you saying they do desensitize?

 

[GBrown1867]

Ok was Gbrown in off-road mod cleave? And are you saying they do desensitize?

Yes offroad mode and traction control off.

 

[Wilson]

Sorry I don't understand the yes yes off-road was on? And traction control off? Answer what ready.

 

[Blind1]

Sorry I don't understand the yes yes off-road was on? And traction control off? Answer what ready.

Wilson, I might be wrong, but I seem to remember reading Raptor Supplemental mentioning using "Off-Road Mode" will desensitize the airbag and retard the shifting. Not in those exact words, but similiar.

 

[Wilson]

Ok thanks

 

[GBrown1867]

Wilson. I had offroad mode on and the traction control off. Was in 2wd with the rear diff locked. This is how I always drive my truck offroad.

 

[jackrook]

Wilson. I had offroad mode on and the traction control off. Was in 2wd with the rear diff locked. This is how I always drive my truck offroad.

Why never in 4wd??

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[Wilson]

+1 but I don't always have the lockers on.