Pics and Vids of my adventure yesterday!

[williambrea]

I went up a big hill after it rained to see how well my balding MTR's do in mud

I have a 2inch RTE lift w/ Rancho shocks that have about 7inches of travel.
In the vids I have only my rear sway bar disconnected. Im pretty sure disconnecting the front would have helped me out getting up that rut. I have my rear diff lockers on btw if you dont notice my front wheels spinning like crazy and my back ones just chuggin along.

Im upgrading from 245/65's to 235/85's MTR's w/ kevlar

What do you guys think?


















Good thing I have a winch :P

[DRaider90]

Nice pics/vids. Looks like its time for some new mud tires. Swampers > MTRs

[tcpfl]

Thanks for sharing. A new set of tires would have definitely helped

[stolenheron]

Originally Posted by tcpfl

Thanks for sharing. A new set of tires would have definitely helped

if you think thats bad, i have balding street tires and no lift on my rover

[tcpfl]

Maybe but you were still able to pull that bronco across half a county

[stolenheron]

you mean this little bronco?



haha good times.

[tcpfl]

I laugh everytime I see that one

[michaels]

to be fair, i pulled a girl out of that mudhole. water got inside her truck. i also couldn't drive out of it forward. i have 33s and that mud just wasn't having it.

[stolenheron]

Originally Posted by michaels

i also couldn't drive out of it forward. i have 33s and that mud just wasn't having it.

thats fine, but you have half a brain and aren't dumb enough to stomp it in reverse when you're getting towed. and you arent dumb enough to hit a tree because you don't know how to steer in reverse.

that sucks that she got water in that sequoia, the water definitely got deeper there last night, i went out to tuskegee after/during the rains. it was a mess with downed trees, mud, and flowing water in the road.

[williambrea]

Originally Posted by DRaider90

Nice pics/vids. Looks like its time for some new mud tires. Swampers > MTRs

Im getting 235/85 MTR's w/ kevlar

Originally Posted by tcpfl

Thanks for sharing. A new set of tires would have definitely helped

x2

Im going to get some vids of me trying that same rut when I get my new tires fitted

Originally Posted by stolenheron

you mean this little bronco?



haha good times.

hahahaha
wow.........

[Thor]

If you like.... try left foot braking to keep the front wheel from spinning freely, sometimes when they hook up axles and such can blow up.

Todd

[williambrea]

Originally Posted by Thor

If you like.... try left foot braking to keep the front wheel from spinning freely, sometimes when they hook up axles and such can blow up.

Todd

hmm good idea, I suppose if that wheel got traction after spinning freely that fast it could definatley hurt something.

Wont that hurt my back wheels or do you mean just slightly braking?

[Thor]

Originally Posted by williambrea

hmm good idea, I suppose if that wheel got traction after spinning freely that fast it could definatley hurt something.

Wont that hurt my back wheels or do you mean just slightly braking?

I hold the brakes on then use the throttle to overcome the resistance on the difficult sections or obstacles. You're not doing it long enough generally to heat anything up too much. This is the poor-man's semi-locker or traction control.

I do have CDL and ARB's front and rear, so it's for situations when I don't have the ARB's activated.

[Disco Mike]

Have you thought about a LT230 case? That and a set of tires and you would be in much better form on that mud hill.

[roverandom]

How about not trying the same line five times, perhaps that would help?
Maybe that hill is one of those "way steeper in real life than it looks on the video" hills.