Wheel Hop Issues

[Greenhills]

Since some of you guys use your Power Wagons as intended, looking for a little advice..

Finally got out in some decent snow (14-18" or so) and was experiencing some pretty significant wheel hop. I was aired down to mid 20's, 4 wheel High.. rear locked or unlocked didn't seem to make much difference. TC off of course.

If i'm really ginger and babying the throttle, i can navigate decently.. but under any real throttle application, it felt like i had put a cinderblock in a washing machine.

I have read that the Carli suspension system fixes or significantly reduces the issue, but i'm not about to drop 5k+ on suspension to fix wheel hop.

Truck is on 37's on stock suspension currently.

Any suggestions on how to reduce the wheel hop ?

 

[Greenhills]

Ah shoot, i accidentally put this in 4th gen.. mods can you move to 4.5 please.

 

[Greenhills]

bump

 

[Wobly]

For this, the general answer is "air down". What pressure are you running your tires at?

 

[adamsmith655]

Does anyone have any experience with the Thuren rear track bar?

I’ve heard that may help fix wheel hop type issues and it’s something I’m considering for PW when it gets here.

 

[Wobly]

Does anyone have any experience with the Thuren rear track bar?

I’ve heard that may help fix wheel hop type issues and it’s something I’m considering for PW when it gets here.

I have the Thuren rear track bar. It works great for what it is supposed to do, but I don't think it does anything for wheel hop. To be clear, when I am talking about wheel hop, I mean when you are on a loose surface and lose traction. The rear wheels will bounce up and down until you let off the accelerator. The Thuren rear track bar does a great job of changing the Left/Up bounce to straight-up and down.

 

[Crusty old shellback]

Did you have traction control on or off?
May work better with it off.

 

[Great White North Eh]

Maybe too many Bunnies in your undercarriage .

 

[mkmsr]

Good luck. Everything I've owned with coil springs would hop and shake the crap out of the vehicle. Seems to be the norm.

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[2powerwagons]

Chains and more weight in the bed.

Every power wagon I have owned has wheel hopped in deep, wet snow. Especially when the bed is empty. Doesn't matter if it was the 3G with leaf springs or the newer coils.

 

[MtnRider]

^ There is your answer.. A little weight in the bed will help. The Carli rear track bar will not help with wheel hop, it helps (supposedly) rear "wag" (the side to side shifting).


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[stickshifter]

In my experience, it is not the coil springs, but the solid axles. I had wicked wheel hop in my CJ-7 with solid axles, but leaf springs. Check out this very short video of a Jeep Wrangler with front-end wheel hop in the snow. Of course, this Jeep has coil springs (not leaf springs), but is this what you have going on?

Having said that, I do think that upgrading suspension on a solid axle rig can reduce wheel hop. I'm sure those trick shocks built by King, that Carli uses in their Pintop system, paired with the Carli springs would eliminate most wheel hop. But I hear you - those are expensive suspensions. Maybe give the guys at CJC Off Road a call and ask if they have any recommendations that don't involve dropping 5K on a high-end Carli system.

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