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Hi all I'm going to be taking my 2012 CC 4x4 Superduty offroading, its a 6.2 with the 3.73gears and an E locker. Pretty much bone stock. I am going to take off the running boards, I figure they'll get damaged. Any advice? These will be light trail roads...She's a big girl and she won't fit on Jeep trails.
I'll be buying Goodyear Duratracs, since the OE tires are getting to wear bars.
Things I carry are shovels, High lift jack and straps.
I've never offroaded a rig this big. Mostly Jeeps and a toyota pickup. What could break on these trucks?
Thanks
What could break? Anything and everything if you beat on it hard enough. But assuming it's your daily driver and you're going to try to be nice to it, the biggest concern I'd have is high centering and biting the sheet metal or a drive shaft.
go easy and pay attention to your surroundings and you should be fine.
as Bob pointed out, the two things i would be most concerned with are high centering, and trees on tight turns. that is one looonnnnggg rig, and a tight turn can make a mess out of nice clean body panels in a heartbeat.
You're in San Jose so mud probably isn't much of an issue for you. But if it was, heavy trucks sink deep! And even just wet dirt is slimy. Any truck will slide around, but long ones will tend to hit more trees when they side-slip.
I try to avoid mud! I live in Minnesota, so it's all around me, but I do my 'wheeling in the Black Hills, in Colorado and up on the Iron Range in northern MN, so almost all rocks.
I did take my '02 F-350 CCSB on an easy trail in Colorado once. The only issue I had was trying to move over far enough to let other fullsize trucks by. And I took my old '85 F-250 RCLB on some pretty tough rockcrawling trails in Colorado back in '95. The open diffs made it hard to pick a line that didn't cross me up, but otherwise it did pretty good.
Otherwise the only 'wheeling I do with my trucks is on snow covered forest roads when I'm grouse hunting. And then I really avoid hills!
If you can afford it, your absolute best investment will be a good winch. Most other modifications help you get further before you get stuck, a winch helps you get unstuck.
If you are staying relatively close to stock on tire size, drivetrain breakage shouldn't be much of an issue, unplanned contact with mother nature is going to be the cause of most, if not all of the damage you will have.
Thanks, that's what I'm thinking. I plan on sticking with stock sized tires maybe goodyear duratrac's. As for a winch I've been looking. It's all about the budget!
the 12,000 lb badlands winch harbor freight sells is a real good deal at $299. and it is a pretty good winch too.
not made for everyday use like hardcore wheelers use, but for the occasional use offroader they can't be beat for the price.
Check out craigslist for winches. I've bought a number of high quality winches for less than the HF. With a little elbow grease and a some seals and gaskets you can end up with a much higher quality winch for the same price or very little more.
For example, I recently bought a Ramsey RE12000 for $200. It needed a motor for a couple hundred but now I have a $1300 winch that is very well made.
I've done the same with Warn 8274's.
10-28-2015, 10:31 AM
