Sage Deals The Industry a Royal Flush In Hardcore

Carli Suspension, Inc took this truck into their shop and installed the Advanced Dominator 3.0 System, Fiberglass (and a couple other goodies that will be released shortly) in just a few days, and off she went to the body shop for finish and paint.

CT entered the section and it was deceiving at how well the truck took the constant volley of whoop after whoop. There was no feedback in the steering wheel, the dual stabilizers kept the handshake between driver and those Toyo's locked on target. As the cameras rolled Owner/Driver CT McDonald increased the intensity of his argument with the desert floor, while driver of the sighting vehicle looked over at the speedometer remembering dragging on the same whoops at 15 mph, CT pushed passed 50 and the truck took flight.

Launching an 8,000 pound package, 2 feet above the whoops, the Monster re-engaged the earth while Carli's Dominator System faultlessly answered the call. Run after run, camera angle after camera angle the crew let the Cummins motor eat its lunch that day and come back for seconds. Backed by a 5-disk TC under lock up control, the power delivery was relentless and so was the rock floor of the Johnson Valley OHV.

The Bank's custom exhaust growled as the pedal was mashed deeper towards the floor and the afternoon began to take shape. Having no previous experience running a truck that size, this hard through terrain that big was an eye opener for all who witnessed. A KX-500 ran next to the rig on a pass taking the whoops in fluid stride, while Carli's latest Monster pounded back at everything that was thrown at it. The tires contacted the dirt and almost immediately took flight again as each run's speed was exponentially increased. Inside the cab, you could hear hydraulic compression from the bump stops and it was clear that the engineer behind the product did his homework, this truck was getting beaten over the toughest terrain within a couple hours from Orange County and every component worked in concert rendering a desert experience like no other.

The weight of the Cummins Diesel is no small task for Sage's front suspension set up, shown here is the left front Walker Evans sitting on the crest of a 3 foot high whoop. Demonstrating the load the Carli Dominator 3.0 was under. That's 22" of custom coil spring, a foot of travel provided by the 3" King shocks, backed by an additional 2.5" of hydraulic bump stop, which still put a 37" Toyo MT running 40 PSI, flat on the deck.

This would have destroyed an inferior suspension system.