Off Road Adventures Magazine

The celebration starting February 8 in the Johnson Valley OHV area, north of Landers, California is expected to be the largest competitive rocksports event in history. Fifteen to twenty thousand off-roaders will gather in a tent and RV community on Means Dry Lake Bed. “Hammertown” will host the fourth running of the fastest growing off-road race in the world...

The list of installation tools is pretty short and definitely not high-tech: a bottle of isopropyl alcohol, a clean soft cloth, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver (to r&r the factory tie-downs) an awl (for punching holes for the factory tie-down screws). The 50-ft of high strength Velcro strips and two packets of 3M Automotive Adhesion Promoter 4298 comes with the kit. The BedTred, introduced at the 2009 SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Assoc...

Traction is the sum of tire grip and wheel torque. Tire traction is highly variable according to tire design, ground conditions and ground pressure, which changes constantly according to vehicle angles and loading, not to mention tire pressure. From the axle side, the traction equation is much more predictable according to what type of differential is used...

4Wheel Drive Hardware and Bestop, with the help of 4 Wheel Parts, are working together to build a Giveaway 4-door Jeep Wrangler and you get to chose what accessories are added to the stock Jeep before it goes to the lucky winner. The way to vote is to log on to: www. 4wdjeepgiveaway...

Anybody who uses a diesel pickup to tow a trailer or off-road rig to a trailhead knows there’s more to it than simply stompin’ on the throttle and headin’ for the hills. All that wonderful stump-pulling torque from a turbocharged mill comes at a price. Not in dollars and cents, but in good operational sense...