G'day guys how are we going well how to do a hill start recovery
in your four wheel drive so now we're going forwards down a steep hill and there's a
couple of scenarios that could happen to you
so how you're going to deal with them well the first one is well you might
have selected the wrong gear and your four wheel drive starting to run away
starting to get bit too fast and now you want to change gears so
how you're going to deal with that one and the other one is well you might be
going down this steep hill and you've been on the brakes a fair while
and now your brakes are starting to fade so you're starting to lose brakes
how you gonna deal with both those situations well jump in
and we're gonna have a chat about that let's go
all right here we go so we're gonna talk about both of those scenarios
on a steep downhill track firstly you might want to select the wrong gear now
i'm currently in second gear low range yeah cruise along the right
and the other one is you might been going down a steep hill for a long time
plenty of them in the high country and you might have been using your brakes just a
little bit too much and now they're getting hot and they're
getting to the point now where they're sort of not working really well at all
really dangerous situation if you get into one of those so i'm
going to come around here again i'm in second gear low range and
now it sort of drops off now really back then i should have gone back
to probably first gear but i'm committed now and you don't want
to jump on the clutch going down a steep hill because as soon as you do that
you lose one of your braking situations when your gearbox and your engine
so i'm just going to slow it down as much as i can and just
stall it right here right here we are stalled
now i've got two points of breaking now holding my vehicle here got my foot
firmly planted on the brake down there i'm still in
second gear low range so i've got the gearbox and
the engine there working well as a second option
get that handbrake on now i've got three points of breaking holding myself here
on the hill nice and safe and the other one last one
you do is just grab that key and just click it back one click don't
go back twice or all the way back because if you go all the way back and
you bump that steering wheel well then your steering wheel is going to
potentially lock and then you've got another problem
you've got to try and get out of that with um on the on this steep hill so
just go back that one click and your steering wheel's not going to lock as
you can see right oh so now you just might want to
kick back and sit for a while now it's nice and safe you're not going anywhere
now on that um if that happens to you you know where you
been on your brakes for a long time and yeah they're starting to get hot and
then it's not not working brakes are getting soft and they're not
working well if you can make it to our next washout down the track well that's
all great if you can make it there but you might have that luxury you might
have that opportunity to get there so if your brakes are really starting to
fade you want to stop that vehicle pretty quickly um so you just might have
to do it right where you are let those brakes
cool down and just sit here you know for five or ten minutes
like i said you know not going anywhere three points of braking you know holding
me here no worries so it's not going to slip and slide and go anywhere
so you just might have a kickback here you know for that five ten minutes let
those brakes cool down before you move on and go again but yeah
you might have to do this you know a number of times by the time you get to
the bottom because there's plenty of steep
downhill tracks here in the high country where you just might have to have me
experiencing that problem you might have to do it a few times and then the other
option is like what i'm in here so i'm in second gear low range when i
should have gone back to first and up back up there before i started coming
down through here because my four wheel drives you know starting
to run away a fair bit so the last thing you want to do is
try and change gears midway down a steep hill don't ever touch that clutch
and think you can quickly change it from second into first because i tell you
what if you get it wrong and you miss that gear change feeling
and gravity's going to grab hold of you pretty quickly
and you're going to start racing down that hill and then panic's going to
really set in because you've already got your adrenaline's already going
so the last thing you want is do that so the safest option is pull it up
like i've showed you here three points of braking holding here on the hill
so now i've got to get it from second gear back into first gear so i can
continue on down this track so while i've still got three points i'm going to
leave my hand broke so i'm going to go clutch in there
clutch in first up into first gear foot off the clutch
now back to three points holding me here on the hill
now the next one is now you want to get your engine started
so next one is i'm going to release the handbrake
handbrake right off so now i'm back to two points of braking now hold me on the
hill gearbox engine is one and that foot still firmly planted down
there on the foot brake so now we're going to get the engine
started and get going now we're going to start this engine
in gear with no clutch all right so already got gravity
on my side wanting to take me down the hill so it's going to work no worries
starting this vehicle in gear going down this hill
so here we go so i'm just going to let that brake off the foot brake down there
it's going to let it off just a little bit it'll start moving but that's all
fine just until that foot's just about off
that brake like it is now and
now i'm just going to turn that key over here we go it moves a little bit but
that's all fine we're still sitting here look i've got no foot on the brakes
move a little bit just turn that key over hand on the steering wheel
and here we go turn that key over and there we go and it's as simple as that
right that might look very easy but you've got to practice these things
right now there's three scenarios i've shown
you now in a stall recovery that you might get yourself
into out in the bush once you got the steep hill you might reverse yourself
back down again the other one is going to steep hill and
you want to continue on showing you that one
and now this one you're going down a steep hill forward and you come up those
couple of problems you might have with wrong gear and
tips i've given you there on how to do heel start recoveries
a couple of options check them out practice them and you'll have a good
safe trip when you're out in the bush there
so until then fair chance i'll see you out there one day i reckon
uru catch you later on see ya