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I know this is an old video, the whole point of letting the air out of the tires is he made an awesome piece of equipment that our soldiers use that can't make it across a beach let alone the desert when lives depend on it. He could have been driving through there like the big dog , but he made a 400,000.00 plus truck look terrible.

The tires don't even reach solid ground, they are just floating in sand. I'm pretty sure it would have made jack shit of a difference.

Dario you should get track over tires on rear only , it will be like night and day over that soft sand there about 4000 dollars more or less then you will only let the air out the front only maybe not even that but I am telling you big difference on the heavier trucks.

@@Kalumbatsch Airing down helps spread the weight and gives more surface area. It still would have helped.

@@Kalumbatsch you have obviously never driven on a beach. No one is looking for solid anything. The purpose of letting tyres down is to increase the surface area of the tyre and bag out. It makes a massive difference in any vehicle. I have been stuck upto my axles in my 4x4 many times and simply letting the air out from 35psi i run on the road out to 18 psi drives me out of the bog without doing much else. Fraser island can be alot of fun.

0:15 - 0:20 people are airing down

@Robert Scott Godwin I drove the M977 A2 and M1120 A4 for a decade. Also rode in M978 A2, M984 A2/A4, and M1158 A4. None of these variants featured CTIS. Any tire deflation would need to occur outside the cab. It's worth noting that the M977 A2 featured in this video is a 21-ton vehicle (dry, no cargo). This chassis is capable of hauling an additional 15 tons. By design, it could haul any of the other trucks in this video. A few notes about the tires: They are decent warm weather hardball tires. They are terrible in the cold, terrible in the mud, terrible on sand, decent rock crawlers, decent for fording. Speaking of fording, the M1120 A4 can ford up to 2 feet of water with zero mechanical implications, and up to 4 feet of water for up to 15 minutes, but the TM states you must pull the hub covers and open the transfer cases and check for water. Anyway, it's a mean machine, but it does not provide all the creature comforts of the FMTV cargo trucks (which are absolute off-roading monsters).

@@aaronshimon7683 So 8 wheels is only for cargo? I doubt the owner of this truck will haul any cargo, so this makes this truck pointless, no?

@@SimpleTrax I do not understand your question. All HEMTT variants have at least 8 wheels. The PLS variant has 10 wheels, and 6 wheel steering.

Wonder how many air up on the barge home thinking theyre just going to roll off and are more worried about hitting the bitumen with low tyre pressure?

its not about all the so called experts Its about the dick in the oversized truck wrecking tracks and giving 4wd ers in general a bad name

You do know that is a HEMTT right? As in a military vehicle that tens of thousands of people have driven. lol

@@MrHorsepowerish love watching this thing but the damage its doing will only result in bans of certain vehicles on the island

Mate, you got to be kidding me cock? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out his tyre pressures are too high, his diffs are ‘tramping’ because his tyres are too hard cock. His diffs aren’t even touching sand and he is bogged, driver must be asleep if he can’t figure out it’s pressures.

You are my kind of people. ;)

He was on a shake down trip after doing the truck up and it had some glitches. Was running out of air and the axle interlocks wouldn't engage, thus he had only 1 wheel drive. Not bad for such a big machine. 8 wheel drive is amazing when they all work of course.

@@philbox4566 at 5:30, 6:57 and 7:25 it certainly looks like all wheels are being driven.

@@alansailing1387 a bit late but 6:30 all the wheels have power.

@@alansailing1387 Yup - Agreed, all wheels driver through out the entire video. Just blaming capable equipment due to a inadequate driver, those tyre pressures are far too high, can see them tight.

A bit slow on the highway

Same here. RHD 👀😅

It's a tow truck not some war machine lol. But it's a fast tow truck.

Makes you appreciate your knowledge of lowering the freaking tires pressure

I remember when nobody went that far up, it was great

Especially when people don’t deflate there tyres enough!

@@waddney4121 I do not know your age, and so how far back you mention, that no one went that far. I have been going to Frazer since the sixties, and have always gone further, to the top of the island. I spoke to many people up there, who had gone themselves and knew of others going much further than there.

@@Nic26482648 I should've said hardly anyone, compared to nowadays it is extremely popular,

Cheers.

Ah yup. Should be down to 20 pound. Would toddle everywhere with zero effort then.

0:15 - 0:20 people are airing down

@@philbox4566 With these wheels, you can go down much more than that! The intelligence did not give more ...

I don't get what all this is about, can someone explain? Let tires down is let air out? Why is that important?

@@bananabreadtan4124 When you let some air out of your tyres they balloon out on the sand giving the tyres a larger footprint which in turn gives your more grip.

did you see his boy in the clip. that boy will never work a day in his life. coz his dad knows that owning an 8x8 means hell never have to let his tyres down

lol ex military yes, likely ex mechanized battalion Australian army..

People like that don't care.

Nope, track is always loose and fluffy. I've been going to Fraser since 1971 and Ngkarla has always been difficult.

@@philbox4566 ive been going since 1871, its always been loose and fluffy

@@philbox4566 not really difficult if you run a correct tyre pressure

@@AlloffroadAu Exactly right. My Mog runs 20 to 25 pound for that bypass track. The XZLs really come into their own at low pressure. The bead locks are awesome. Makes that track like driving down the M1.

the tyres run on these have a very thick sidewall. basically if the tyre is deforming on flat ground you can expect a blowout shortly from too much heat build up. unless you change rims not much else available

Beach sand is much finer grains especially on Fraser Island. It's hard to walk in without sinking.

Yeah, good bloke eh. One of the other crewies is a total crabby knob. Way too uptight to be in customer service.

Haha fair enough man

@@philbox4566 Yeah, if he can't be arsed replying to your camera dude, he's really not suitable for customer service..

Hah, Cyclone Oma might see them surface again. ;)

@jannis joplin It means a vehicle's tires pushed 4 Maxtrax straight down into the sand so deep they couldn't find them.

My brother buried 4 yesterday. Successfully got out. I managed to dig the trax out and take them down to him

@@philbox4566 you guys know anything about tire pressure.??..

@@phantomwalker8251 Of course and the rest of us on more than one occasion highly recommended he lower his tyre pressure. Would have made a massive difference.

Im sure the battery version is just around the corner! Lol maybe not.

@@pagenip2542 it's for sure got the payload capacity to stack like 4 full Tesla packs

Brad H the sweet sweet sound of a 16v71

@@jackelracer593 ain't a 16v71

8V92T. As far as noise goes, the HEMTT is probably the 2nd easiest military vehicle on the ears after the humvee. The engine is behind you and there’s a decent amount of foam insulation in the cab.

SubieLift Oz light & fast, name of the game.

Haflingers in Oz are really starting to fetch the big bucks lately. I love those little jiggers. Agree with the go anywhere. Me mate who used to drive tracked M113 APCs in the Army told me about this Haflinger that kept up with the troop. Took him a while to catch up but he went everywhere they did.

Hi Phil, I commented thinking impressively big to very tiny! Also driven ‘The tank track’ at Pucka’ in the early 70’s (Haflinger, Pinzgauer & M113) and the tiny Haffy’s could keep up with the M113’s about 36 times their weight!! PS. We didn't reduce tyre pressures, didn’t need to & didn’t get stuck either!

I don't think that the AWD does work.

Wrong gearing i think. If he used faster gears and got the wheels turning faster, he would glide right over the soft sand. He has a tremendous amount of surface area with all 8 wheels.

@@jd6ss Nope

Not sure how you think it does any more damage than your average 4x4 straining its way through. Sure the tyres could be aired down but there's clearly no need.

Exactly right and that is what we told him to do. That truck was not really mechanically ready for the island and the tyres were never let down from highway pressure. Big mistake.

@@philbox4566 Cool hearing back from ya, amazing truck though. Would’ve been a blast👍

Same haha he couldn't give a fuck😂 seen it all before

That 2stroke Detroit is the star of the show. And they are quite durable

It would ride like a billy-cart. And use more fuel than the ferry, hahaha

bruce poole but it would get you there

@@mickysteiner8359 I owned a ATKINSON back in the day with a 8v92TA. It was a v8 oil pump, check the fuel and fill up the oil, hahaha. smooth motor but no torque compared to a CUMMINS or a CAT.

bruce poole I’m used to the 8v92t that has the mods for the military myself

Nailed it.

Hah, we take pics of parking very badly at shopping centre car parks with the Unimogs. ;)

Drives over 10 parked SUVs, 4 trolley collection bays and several bollards only to get snagged up on the gutter.

I saw that too. All the ones I've worked on were left hand drive

This big brute didn't have CTIS unfortunately.

They do wonders for the hearing aid industry.

I was just about to comment about tyre pressure and read your comment... you're bang on with what you've said

I have been too Fraser Island since early 95, by the looks of things I won't be going anytime soon. Looks like it's way to crowded.

@@aarronlane8809 Bunch of wankers trying to prove they don't have tiny peckers!!

I gave up fraser years ago..now just dickhead country

What the fuck are you on about the guy literally didn’t spin a tire he was most relaxed off road trail I’ve ever seen done all in low gear with out ever strait in his equipment and it literally dug down less than 8 inches in sand yeah he could of aired his tires down for the sand then aired em back up to go over the rocks this isn’t a shitty fucking busted hilux wannabe with a brushgaurd with a whip Antananarivo like your used to that trucks tires weigh more than anything you’ve ever driven most likely . I just thank god I’m an American you wanker ass aussies are the bitchiest bunch of excuse for manly men nowdays. No guns and a popular vehicle is a Ute... fuck that horse shit.

That 8x8 isnt nearly a million, and the difference is it carries 2 of you jimnys, as well as wades deeper. Nothing against jimnys, but you just cant compare them, compare to lada

revs pretty high, is that a 2 stroke diesel?

A 2stroke at 3000 will sound like a 4stroke at 6000

In Australia we say. All the gear no idea

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Thought the same after some seconds of the video. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

Oh man! I literally logged in just to say the same thing. This was painful to watch. Tire pressure!!! Ragging that engine when all he needed to do was let some air out of the tires. Argh!

You have no idea the gearing and tyres are not run of the mill mahrinda stuff that you drive wake up to yourself your limited knowledge on this vehicle is ludicrous

This is most likely due to the frame rate of the camera recording and isn’t actually a strobe mechanism

Back up plan is tow him with a couple of the Unimogs that we had along for the trip. We also had some mechanics who were familiar with the truck who sorted out the air valve issue with a work around.

@@philbox4566 how wuld you even get the tires off and onto the roof of that thing they problably weigh around 150kgs each

@@thetouringprepper8681 He uses the onboard crane. Easy peasy. ;)

call mom

a real driver? :D :D :D

craki06 no its worthless

@@jackelracer593 any tool is worthless if the operator doesn't know what they're doing

No the driver is just incompetent about how to drive

Sand is nothing's specialty with full tyres