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Offline renegade350

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Flat Towing Rubicon Jeep behind motor home
« on: March 17, 2021, 09:56:58 AM »
https://www.thedrive.com/news/39794/rv-driver-annihilates-their-new-jeep-wrangler-by-flat-towing-it-in-4-low 

With the 4.10 gears and 4-1 case, it would have been doing 10000+ rpm @ 70 mph. 
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Offline Vinman

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Re: Flat Towing Rubicon Jeep behind motor home
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2021, 11:22:45 AM »
More like 40,000 plus RPM at 60 mph but my money says the explosion of parts happened before it got to 10,000 rpm.
I bet it exploded before anything got hot.
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Re: Flat Towing Rubicon Jeep behind motor home
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2021, 02:24:26 PM »
I figure the guy thought he was in neutral but missed the shift and put it in 4-low. I believe when flat towing your supposed to put the transmission in gear.
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Re: Flat Towing Rubicon Jeep behind motor home
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2021, 06:00:20 PM »
I just did the math, 60 MPH 1st gear low range would put the RPM’s at about 50,479 RPM.
My money says the engine grenaded long before that.
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