Find out how the Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited worked on the trail.
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00:00 Well, does our stock four-wheeler have the capability to transverse Elephant Hill?
00:09 Here's Phil Howe.
00:10 We're here with Rich Powers, Engineering Test Supervisor of Daimler Chrysler's Arizona Proving
00:15 Grounds.
00:16 Hey Rich.
00:17 Hi Phil.
00:18 Great to see you out here.
00:19 You've got a great Rubicon here.
00:20 Yeah, this is the Unlimited.
00:21 I know it's a little longer than the regular Wrangler.
00:24 Can you tell us what else is different?
00:26 Well, mainly it's the wheelbase.
00:27 It's 10 inches longer.
00:28 It also has 5 inches more room in the back.
00:33 Other than that, it's pretty much the same.
00:35 Larry, our producer, just got through the Elephant Hill trail unscathed and he's all
00:39 stoked of course.
00:40 So now he's talking about buying an Unlimited Wrangler for himself.
00:44 But he could make just a few changes to make it work even better off-road.
00:49 The Unlimited comes with a 245/75/16 tire, which is a 31-inch diameter tire.
00:57 It also has a cross member that hangs down in the middle.
01:00 Pretty good.
01:01 It hangs down about this far, which of course when the vehicle breaks over a big rock in
01:05 the middle, it comes and hangs up on it.
01:09 Rich Powers from Daimler Chrysler, he has a Rubicon.
01:13 And what he's done is he just put a 2-inch lift on here, a 2-inch suspension.
01:18 And then he put 3 15/75/16 tires, which are 35-inch tires.
01:24 And then he put what you call a belly-up cross member.
01:27 Well the belly-up is almost perfectly flat in the middle.
01:30 So now when the Jeep breaks over, it's higher, you don't hit in the middle.
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