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<blockquote data-quote="hokie_yj" data-source="post: 596398" data-attributes="member: 4238"><p>Well I took this thing out this past weekend to AOP and it really impressed me. I was able to get up a lot of stuff pretty easily that others really struggled on, and that had nothing to do with my driving ability. This thing really was just about a point and shoot rig this weekend even as slick as it was. I don't know if anyone got any pictures of it on the trail, we didn't stop much for pics or video. Here's a couple I got of it sitting in camp.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/boomboom33/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/8664C6E9-7A40-4E09-84E9-29D22C86F322_zpsx16mnskb.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e102/boomboom33/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/8664C6E9-7A40-4E09-84E9-29D22C86F322_zpsx16mnskb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s38.photobucket.com/user/boomboom33/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/FABF38D8-8C65-453C-BEED-58FAB7E82EBF_zps5tbqakrx.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e102/boomboom33/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/FABF38D8-8C65-453C-BEED-58FAB7E82EBF_zps5tbqakrx.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>The only carnage was a broken brake line going to the drivers rear caliper. On Saturday morning on Trail 65 I backed into a tree or rock and bent the short section of hard line on the flex line going to the caliper. It was bent up to where if the shock compressed it would hit it. We tried to bend it back but it just cracked the line so we broke it off and hammered it flat, pinched the rubber line off with vise grips and wheeled the rest of the day without issue. </p><p></p><p>Do have some minor issues to address though. My transmission temp gauge was flaky this weekend, totally my fault though. When I installed it I put the sender in a pipe tee mounted in line in the rubber line and zip tied it to the chassis. Brain fart on my part, the body of the sender has to be grounded for the gauge to work. So I guess occasionally it was grounding just enough to work until a good bounce moved it again. Also I got the transmission a little too hot because I didn't really understand how the electronic shifting on the AW4 worked. It has a RADsigns rail shifter, but I didn't fully understand how it worked so I think I wheeled all weekend in 2nd gear. OOPS! And late in the day Saturday I started having what seems like fuel issues. Motor would rev wide open in neutral but when I put it under a load trying to climb a hill anything over about 1/4 throttle and it would just sputter and fall on it's face. I pulled the fuel filter off and it didn't seem to be clogged, and I didn't have anything with me to test the fuel pressure so I just parked it and rode with someone else for the last few hours. All in all a great weekend though, and I was very pleased with how it did for the first trip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hokie_yj, post: 596398, member: 4238"] Well I took this thing out this past weekend to AOP and it really impressed me. I was able to get up a lot of stuff pretty easily that others really struggled on, and that had nothing to do with my driving ability. This thing really was just about a point and shoot rig this weekend even as slick as it was. I don't know if anyone got any pictures of it on the trail, we didn't stop much for pics or video. Here's a couple I got of it sitting in camp. [URL=http://s38.photobucket.com/user/boomboom33/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/8664C6E9-7A40-4E09-84E9-29D22C86F322_zpsx16mnskb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e102/boomboom33/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/8664C6E9-7A40-4E09-84E9-29D22C86F322_zpsx16mnskb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s38.photobucket.com/user/boomboom33/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/FABF38D8-8C65-453C-BEED-58FAB7E82EBF_zps5tbqakrx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e102/boomboom33/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-06/FABF38D8-8C65-453C-BEED-58FAB7E82EBF_zps5tbqakrx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The only carnage was a broken brake line going to the drivers rear caliper. On Saturday morning on Trail 65 I backed into a tree or rock and bent the short section of hard line on the flex line going to the caliper. It was bent up to where if the shock compressed it would hit it. We tried to bend it back but it just cracked the line so we broke it off and hammered it flat, pinched the rubber line off with vise grips and wheeled the rest of the day without issue. Do have some minor issues to address though. My transmission temp gauge was flaky this weekend, totally my fault though. When I installed it I put the sender in a pipe tee mounted in line in the rubber line and zip tied it to the chassis. Brain fart on my part, the body of the sender has to be grounded for the gauge to work. So I guess occasionally it was grounding just enough to work until a good bounce moved it again. Also I got the transmission a little too hot because I didn't really understand how the electronic shifting on the AW4 worked. It has a RADsigns rail shifter, but I didn't fully understand how it worked so I think I wheeled all weekend in 2nd gear. OOPS! And late in the day Saturday I started having what seems like fuel issues. Motor would rev wide open in neutral but when I put it under a load trying to climb a hill anything over about 1/4 throttle and it would just sputter and fall on it's face. I pulled the fuel filter off and it didn't seem to be clogged, and I didn't have anything with me to test the fuel pressure so I just parked it and rode with someone else for the last few hours. All in all a great weekend though, and I was very pleased with how it did for the first trip. [/QUOTE]
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