Took the Genesis out today for a bit of bashing in a spot that Ive been meaning to go for a long time. It's only a 5 minute drive from my house at my farm. I've been avoiding it becuse I am a WOT driver and in the sand the engine RPMs stay up because its always spinning out, and I have been having such a nightmare with the half tank lean until this winter. THanks to TRDs check valve solution, it runs great now.
These trucks are absolutely amazing. at about 3/4 throttle it would go straight up the hill you see in the pictures. I never thought it would. I even had the truck going accross the hill at about 15 mph and it could still pull wheelies! (lock block installed)
All was going good other than it being very "clunky" at shifting into reverse.
Then I decided that it was a tough truck, it should be able to handle a 30 foot vertical drop right?
well, surprisingly, the only damage was a bent top shock, which I shouldnt really be running anyway, and a busted plastic front drive shaft and bent pin and the front brake disc screws got bent.
Something tells me I may have landed the fronts a bit hard.
And I managed to get my dodge truck stuck, had to walk just over a mile to the house to get a tractor, unstick the dodge, drive the tractor back and walk back to the truck.
Oh well, I can now prove that a CEN genesis can handle more sand than a dodge 4x4 [:'(]
Sorry about the poor pics, I only had my camera phone which was almost dead, and it was so bright out I couldnt see what I was taking a picture of. Its hard to get the scale of this sand pit form the pics, but its about 30+ ft high (vertical) and has a semi circumference of about 250+ ft.
Hopefully Ill get some better action pics soon and maybe some vid.