I have tried using the handbrake technique on both my vans in the past with very limited success. The Vanagon with its forward weight bias sucks in slippery conditions. I have been running a Peloquin limited slip in my 5 speed for just about a year now and its fantastic! Completely invisible on dry pavement, it will charge up a slope with 8" of heavy wet snow like it wasn't there. The tires were 225/55-16 Conti WinterExtremes. I'm not going out of my way looking for mucky places to challenge Dixie but I'm no longer afraid of wet grass and a slight incline... Jake On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking the other day about those dune buggy emergency brake > handles you could get that let you apply braking to one rear wheel > or the other. Seems like this could be a good addition to the 2wd > vanagon. Seems like I get stuck so easy when one wheel is on wet > grass or something, and the other could get good traction if only it > would try. Not a LS by any means but probably *a little* > cheaper... Anybody ever done this? > Edward >
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