Originally Posted by travisch
I,d imagine that would be a really good test for any amphib.
I,d imagine that would be a really good test for any amphib.
travisch, sorry my man... I will never have 90 degrees to test with. But I have loaded it up with folks and a bunch of gear on top speed for several miles and had no problem with heat.
Just for giggles, I put one fan on a toggle switch, and the other on a heat switch on the engine. It took an hour( at 20 degrees) for my main fan to come on at full throttle. The heater core and the top of my coweling being cut out, along with a 6x15 inch vent on the bottom of my engine cowling provides about all of the cooling I need. I didn't need that square recess on the top of my engine cowling, so I cut it out, put on a metal lid with 4 inch stand-offs to hold it up off of the top.
The draft from the cool air coming in the bottom vents as well as the vents on both radiators provides almost enough cooling without running the fans. Of course it will be different in the summer when I will switch on my extra(left) fan while still running the main fan off of the engine temperature switch. My engine heat switch kicks on at 185 degrees and kicks off at 165 degrees. The thermostat opens at 159.6 degrees. It works like a charm.During hard running the fan only kicks on for 15-20 seconds at a time.
I have never had a cooling problem up here in these temperatures. It runs at about 65-85 degrees up here in the summer.
With my toggle switch and my heat switch, my fan only runs anout 1/4 of the time.
I had to do all of this fan stuff because my engine was running too cool with both fans running all of the time. Now my engine runs at an average of 170 degrees which makes it run better and the heater core puts out a lot of heat.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
Bubba
travisch, I've been thinking about that running full speed down the road for 15 miles.
May I suggest that you trailer your rig.
I always trailer my MO as far as I can, then off-load and go from there. I never have the need to load it and run full speed anywhere. I have 4-wheelers for that senerio, but at my age I don't speed much of anywheres. Most of my running is muskeg or peat bogs and muddy trails.
My application is much different than yours down there.I have always said the MO was a work-horse, not a race-horse. I would die fast if I run this crud fast. I have a nice warm cab with heater. I run the snow trails ice fishing back in the bush where I'm the only one out there. In moose season I drive back into the back-woods swamps where the 4-wheelers would never try to go. I have it all to myself.
I use my old MO to get wood, trap, fish and moose-caribou hunting, not running the trails playing with my home-boys. I can only speak for what I do, and what I do is have a lot of fun.
Bubba
Very good post Bubba. We all had different reasons for the amphibs that we chose to buy , and also how we spend time enjoying them.
Last edited by mudbug3; 12-31-2010 at 01:47 AM.
With age comes wisdom. thanks Bubba
Typically I would trailer the machine but hunting here in the west during the early fall for antelope usually means some long runs down logging roads or secondary roads. Honestly a better machine for this scenario is a quad or side by side UTV such as a Ranger and leave the Amphib in camp for difficult to reach areas only.
There just isn't an absolutely perfect machine that covers every need so you end up in camp with a good 4x4 truck to travel long distances and main roads, a quad for high speed in/out access and an amphib to pull the quad out or access the steep and deep to retrieve game.
travisch
You are right on that one. Sometimes I really miss my Prowler when it come to a long haul.So far I to take my polaris 500 for all of the long haul stuff. When the moose is down, I grab the Ox and go in. Usually the moose is in bad mud and water where the 4x4 won't go. It works out with a hunting partner, so it isn't much of a real problem. Some of my hunting country is grassy ridges, but most is mud.
It is nice when things get snowy or real muddy to have the old OX to keep the show going.
Bubba
Bubba
It really sounds like you have some awesome country to ride your Mudd-Ox in. Please post some video,s of the places that you,ve been able to take it. I,m sure a lot of the forum members would love to see them.
Yep, I was just thinkging how a video, or some pics would go very nicely with this thread! I love to see the terrain people ride in.
Fellers, if I could figure out how to get the video from my Cannon GL2 camera, I would do it. E-mail me how and I will.I'll bet that old smelly Mudbug3 would know???
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