getting some air!!

[beaston1]

hey i was wondering if any of you guys have pics of jumping your explorer (i.e. getting some air), and if you do jump alot how hard is it on your truck??

 

[Jason_25]

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=40436&

Here's a thread on it already. I personally have never jumped mine offroad. But I think i've gotten some air hitting bumps in the road sometimes.

 

[Perry]

Does this count, I was on three wheels

 

[93Ranger]

i hit a bump on my way home from school the other day. i am pretty sure i got 2 or 3 wheels off the ground, i know my back left was still planted.

ive never gone fast enough off-road to get any air, maybe 20 to 30 mph is all.

 

[rustytr]

Perry, you seem to be on 3 wheels almost as much as you're on four.

 

[Alec]

There used to be some really bad RR tracks by my parents house that I had some fun on a few times. They've smoothed it a bit, but I still fly sometimes. There's a lot more traffic now so I don't much anymore. Anyway, I had over 2 feet under all 4 once and landed without any problems. I didn't get a pic but had 2 witnesses. They said it was pretty cool The landing actually wasn't that bad, just hurt my lower back a bit.

Have fun!

 

[Yomie]

i don't have pics, but one day when i was 16 (young and dumb) i was coming across a pretty hilly intersection in my '96 Ford Ranger 4X2 trying to beat the yellow light and i hit the 'bump' in the middle of the intersection and my rpm's went sky high, thus informing me that my rear tires had come off the ground, plus when the front tires hit the ground, i thought everything under the truck would've broke

 

[beaston1]

hey im 16 and im not young and dumb!!

hey but for the people who have done it, does it screw up your truck much or what??

 

[ok89]

Alec which intersection is that?

 

[sideswipe]

Originally posted by beaston1
hey im 16 and im not young and dumb!!

hey but for the people who have done it, does it screw up your truck much or what??

Thats the thing about being 16, you dont realize that you were young and dumb till you get older...

 

[Alec]

OK89, Bunker Hill and I-10/Old Katy. Lots of air going northbound on Bunker Hill, but now there's always some dufus running the stop sign and ending up in the middle of the intersection, so I have to go slow.

 

[prerunexp]

i am 16 young and dumb

well the other day a buddy and i were on the way out to an offroad place and it was about 11:00 night 70 miles away from home and noone knew where we were, we were going about 50 and we hit a mound of dirt that the watter washed into the road , with the stock x and came about 4 feet off the groundm man that thing landed so hard we hit our heads on the ceiling and 3 coke cans in the back exploded all over my interior, but nothing happent to the car as far as i know so far

dont think i will try that again for a while or at least till i get some mods

 

[93Ranger]

note to self, 3000 pound Ford Ranger does not fly!

i got some air today. there was a hill, that didnt look like we would get any air on it at all. it was a bumpy road, and i was crusing at about 75 or 80 during lunch. i saw the hill, and at the last minute, just floored the clutch hoping to not screw up my drive train when i landed. i would say the whole truck got about 3 feet or so in the air. landed flat. didnt bottom out, didnt hurt bad.

it was sooo tight, but im not going to be doing it again.