Jumping 4H or 2H?

[David Godbee]

Loutish I agree with your def of a jump. That’s hauling and what it’s designed for. I’ve seen lots of pics though that indicates they are just out jumping fora pic and they over do it.Nice pic on your go!

 

[zombiekiller]

4H makes sense, especially if you haven't changed the weight bias by putting your spares at the back of the bed. ( i.e. you run a chase rack with them behind the cab and have removed the factory spare from its location) .

in theory, you should be able to rotate the nose up, if you stayed on the throttle with the inertia of the tires spinning. This is why you rarely see the trucks in the videos end up lawn darting ( think the Durhamtown vids) and hear them banging off the rev limiter mid-air.

take a look at RC car videos of big jumps and you will see this in practice. The good pilots are watching the truck mid-air and giving it throttle if the nose dips down.

what is the best will really depend on how your truck is set up and what kind of a driver you are.

 

[Josh84]

I have never jumped my Raptor but I would say 2wd so that you can control the vehicle in the air. Continue to push the accelerator down typically make the front end go up in recreational vehicles, and applying the brakes typically pushes the front end down. I am not sure that mechanic would work while in 4wd but this is only a guess.

 

[Loufish]

On our trucks not sure about brakes/accel when jumping to control pitch, but do know this...you don't want to land with heavy braking OR on the gas!
For the few flights I've had I made it a point to go neutral on the wheel speed as much as possible for the landing

 

[Rednose]

4H makes sense, especially if you haven't changed the weight bias by putting your spares at the back of the bed. ( i.e. you run a chase rack with them behind the cab and have removed the factory spare from its location) .

in theory, you should be able to rotate the nose up, if you stayed on the throttle with the inertia of the tires spinning. This is why you rarely see the trucks in the videos end up lawn darting ( think the Durhamtown vids) and hear them banging off the rev limiter mid-air.

take a look at RC car videos of big jumps and you will see this in practice. The good pilots are watching the truck mid-air and giving it throttle if the nose dips down.

what is the best will really depend on how your truck is set up and what kind of a driver you are.

ZK I got confused I have used this theory a lot in dirt bikes and Utv's but what I have experienced is spinning the tires hard in the air with 4H result in damaging your front axles.Even the control of applying the brake and acceleration on a 2wd is way noticeable and beneficial than the 4H but that's me thought I might be mistaken.

 

[zombiekiller]

ZK I got confused I have used this theory a lot in dirt bikes and Utv's but what I have experienced is spinning the tires hard in the air with 4H result in damaging your front axles.Even the control of applying the brake and acceleration on a 2wd is way noticeable and beneficial than the 4H but that's me thought I might be mistaken.

that makes a whole lot of sense too. my cv angles are already a little extreme. they should relax when I lower the front ride height though.

I haven't run my truck in 4wd outside of a few times that I thought I would get stuck in mud or silt.

All my launchings have been 2wd, mostly because I like offroading in 2wd for the slide quotient.

I'm not a "ha-uuuuuuuuuuuge air" kind of guy. I'd rather jam through whoops doing 60-70.

 

[JP77]

I think you need to experiment in both. Please be sure to video. If it’s not on video it didn’t happen. Please post the video here for scientific purposes and lots of trash talking.

 

[waveslayer]

2 WD is best.. a few little humps in Anza-Borrego

My wife thinks I only have 3 guns

 

[jabroni619]

I have never jumped my Raptor but I would say 2wd so that you can control the vehicle in the air. Continue to push the accelerator down typically make the front end go up in recreational vehicles, and applying the brakes typically pushes the front end down. I am not sure that mechanic would work while in 4wd but this is only a guess.

I would think It would work better actually because you’re doubling the rotational mass. In my RC cars the 4wd ones react way quicker than the 2wd ones.

 

[Rednose]

that makes a whole lot of sense too. my cv angles are already a little extreme. they should relax when I lower the front ride height though.

I haven't run my truck in 4wd outside of a few times that I thought I would get stuck in mud or silt.

All my launchings have been 2wd, mostly because I like offroading in 2wd for the slide quotient.

I'm not a "ha-uuuuuuuuuuuge air" kind of guy. I'd rather jam through whoops doing 60-70.

You need to try both and judge but as you said I am not into huge air when it comes to these trucks, running whoops and going fast on trails is what I love to doing with the Gen 2. I got to learn that the Gen 2 was not meant for jumping the hard way after destroying 2 skid plates and 1 steering box.