• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Jeep Patriot anyone?

Did you notice his front left tire spinning towards the end of the video? It didn't look like the braking differential was doing it's job at all. Maybe there's a switch to "lock" it?

OK I watched a few more videos on youtube and he didn't have it locked from what I can tell. Really it don't look like too bad of a truck once you put on some descent tires. It could be a bit taller for ground and larger tire clearance though.
 
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Did you notice his front left tire spinning towards the end of the video? It didn't look like the braking differential was doing it's job at all. Maybe there's a switch to "lock" it?

OK I watched a few more videos on youtube and he didn't have it locked from what I can tell. Really it don't look like too bad of a truck once you put on some descent tires. It could be a bit taller for ground and larger tire clearance though.

It's not really a lock and the name brake lock differential is a bit misleading. As Skip pointed out, the vehicle automatically applies brake to the spinning wheel so the wheel with traction will get some of the torque from the drivetrain. If I understand it right, the wheel with the least traction, or in this case no traction cause it was in the air, is gong to still spin a bit as the automatic braking is applied to that wheel.

At one point two tires had almost no weight on them and the vehicle was kinda balanced on the other two tires. This is the point at which a standard 4wd system would have made no further progress with out really gassing it or hitting it at speed with some momentum.
 
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