Huge Ford Digs Deep, Not Forward: Muddy Monday
Ford mega mud truck meets its match in the form of a deep, thick mud pit.
The vast majority of our Muddy Monday videos feature a Ford truck dominating the worst footing imaginable, but there are times that the mud wins. This week’s video from the Anything With An Engine YouTube channel showcases a serious Ford mega mud truck that looks like it would be able to conquer just about any obstacle, but the paths chosen by the driver at the Perkins Spring Sling prove to be too much for the monstrous F-Series.
Ford Mud Monster
There are no details on this Ford mega mud truck, but we can decipher plenty based on what we can see. When the video first begins, the truck is pretty clean, giving us a good look at the elaborate suspension setup. The most notable feature is the huge coil-over-shock setup, which has to provide at least four feet of lift. All of that lift makes plenty of room for the gigantic mud tires on equally-huge wheels, with an extensive tube chassis setup providing the rigidity to handle the rough terrain.
We don’t know for sure what is under the hood of this classic mega mud truck, but it is definitely some variety of V8. We would like to think that it is a 460-cubic inch big block Ford, but in a truck named “Mud Slut”, it very well may be a Chevy. Whatever is under the hood announces its presence through a set of stacks that poke up in front of the windshield.
In short, this old school Ford truck appears to be built for the toughest mudding and you might think that makes it unstoppable, but this video shows that the mud can beat even the biggest, baddest machines.
The Mud is Too Much
The video starts with this old Ford storming left-to-right across the screen, getting a good start before hitting a deep pit that quickly buries the nose of the truck. The mud stops the truck so hard that it stalls the engine, allowing the old F-Series to sink even deeper while waiting for the backhoe to pull him out.
Once free of that mud pit, the Ford truck driver heads over to a stretch of the bog that looks more like a narrow creek. Whereas most of the Perkins Mud Bog is thick, dark and deep mud, this other section is filled with water, so we don’t know what the footing is like until the truck hits it. As it turns out, the footing is loose and very, very deep.
As soon as this truck pushes into the watery pit, forward progress is halted by the deep, loose mud. The driver is able to back up and get a bit of a run, making a bit more progress each time. At some point, the old Ford can no longer go forward to backward, so the driver just hammers down and lets the big tires sling mud as this huge truck is buried up to its body.
Crank up your speakers and enjoy!
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