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Originally Posted by Zoomad75
One of my techs used to have a FC Jeep when he worked for the town of Vail. Loved it. Crawled like mad. Main downfall was downhill descending. Very nose heavy to say the least. Go to steep and it wanted to nose over. He indicated sometimes he ended up turning around and backing it down a hill to keep the truck from tipping forward.
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There was an old video comparing the Dodge and Ford cab-over pick-up trucks, and during the braking comparison, one of them nosed over--the other featured the 300 pound cast steel counterweight under the bed of the truck to keep it from doing that.
Couldn't find it on Youtube.