I thought the same thing. Not even close to the hardest rescue, but you gotta get those clicks. He gets mine regardless. Even without the clickbait titles. It’s a fun show.
It's worth pointing out that it's not really Matt saying that it was the "hardest rescue". At the beginning he said that the customer warned him that it would be "the hardest most technical rescue that Matt has ever done" (paraphrasing), so that just became the title of the video.
There’s a bit of sass there too… they were quoting the overwhelmed driver while he in contrast to the vehicle owner said something to the effect of “I think this will just become a wheeling trip for us”.
Realistically it’s closer to 1/2”, depending on what you’re comparing to. The higher fenders give 1/2” more of room, the 33’s about a 1/2” of actual height.The Mojave, from factory, has the extra 1” lift up front.
In a game of inches, size does matter.
How about tose Eagle or Bandlands offroad jacks? Don't have to deal with the deadly hi lift and damage prone hi lift?
Mojave can do just about everything a Rubicon can except lock the front and disconnect the sway bar. However, most of us will never push the Rubicon to the limits of needing the front and rear locked with the sway bar disconnected. I’d say for the average, moderate wheeling you’ll be fine in 95% of trails with a Mojave on 35’s or 37’s. Add an auto lynx disconnect and you’re in business even more so. The Mojave isn’t set for crawling so you may need to use a bit more throttle, but really, like I said before, not a big deal in my opinion.
Crawling and mud/sand/snow are where the front locker are helpful. There aren't a lot of rocks here in Florida, but there is a lot of mud/sand and clay that will have you spinning tires constantly, and in those situations the front locker has saved me a few dozen times. Beyond that the 4:1 transfer case vs the 2:72 will be the bigger factor in terms of how you get/up/over/through/around things. As someone else said, you can probably keep up through 95% of the stuff, you just may be using more throttle and bumps and less finess. Its kind of like when my buddy in the tacoma follows me, I'm usually going up/over/through things slowly and with out much dama, he's bouncing and bucking and making a lot of noise to do the same, but we both get there usually.
