Hummer Service Input

[MarineHawk]

Originally posted by PhilD:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MarineHawk:
Does someone make a transfer case for the H2 with lower ratio than the stock 2.64:1 (33:1 crawl ratio)? Like, say, 4.0:1 (i.e., 50:1 crawl ratio)?I wrong?

Not sure if you can convert the BW unit. But I'm sure you could change the t-case to an Atlas II, I believe you can get down to a 10:1 ratio! A 4.3:1 low range or so would most probably be ideal though.

But at the end of the day, you'll never change the fact that the H2 is not an ideal rock crawler, it's too big, too heavy, too easy to break (especially IFS), and too expensive to smash up on a regular basis. It does make for an excellent all round off-road vehicle, that you can drive on a daily basis though.

FWIW A better crawl ratio would obviously be nice, but I have yet to see an obstacle the H2 couldn't do purely because of it's crawl ratio. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think your last sentence would be more accurate if you added: "... when I'm driving it."

I definitely defer to your much greater off-roading skills and H2 knowledge, but just to play Devil's advocate:
I think the way I've seen you get over some difficult obstacles in the videos circulating would sometimes not go so well for someone, like me, with a lower, more-intermediate skill level. Although not necessary to get over a particularly-tough obstacle (short of extreme rock crawling - which is not for the H2), wouldn't a higher crawl ratio allow someone to go over some of the same obstacles slower and less aggresively and actually decrease the risk of damage?
Not a likely scenario, but wouldn't it also help going down a very steep incline if you had brake failure?
I guess what I'm saying is that I think there's some possibility that a higher crawl ratio might help someone like me, yet not be much help to someone who really, really knows what he's doing in tough spots.
By way of hypothetical example: I have read quite a few reviews where the H3 outperforms all of the other vehicles in its class on rough terrain, and the testers attribute that in part to the higher crawl ratio. I get the impression that, if you were driving a an H3 with a worse crawl ratio, you'd still be able to do better than most of the testers. Yet the testers seem to be able to do better with the higher crawl ratio.
Of course, the H2 has a lot more power and torque ...
Sorry, just thinking out loud.