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I grew up in MI, live in AZ but was military so traveled and lived all over, including Colorado and Grand Forks ND. I never owned a 4wd, always did fine in 2wd with skill and weight. I have 4wd in AZ for the off-road but drove to MI a couple years ago and hit a blizzard, the truck did great, went into 4wd and had no trouble getting thru. I buy Fords because they work good at everything I need...
Im sure lack of weight contributed to the stuckage. My backwheels are so far from any weight. But tires could not get me over small lips. Had Wranglers on my Dakota, never real problem with th e m gunking up.
For some reason I'm still thinking you didn't have the front end pulling. Granted I do run studded snow tires I've never run into a time I even thought i was going to get stuck, that's with a open rear diff also. But it's absolutly worthless in 2wd....
One easy way to get a little extra ballast is a snow shovel and fill the bed with snow.
Nothing like self-depleting ballast.
Not the best time of year for crawling under the truck and if you doBE SAFE.
Parking break ON and in 2WD transmission in Park. Lock the hubs on both sides
and reach up and try to turn the front drive line. Should not move other than a little wiggle.
With questionable tires and wet snow on tree leaves he wasn't going to go anywhere.... Dad got stuck once in just light powder because he stopped on top of a frozen Garden hose under the passenger side tires, locking differential would've helped in that case. Curious as to whether it would've helped in this one?....
You folks are a bad influence methinks, all this talk about locking diffs.
Ive always had 4wd till now, but almost never used all four. More maintenance for nothing was my thinking. Still is really, for what I do. I do frequently cross mountain passes in snow and ice, and sometimes pit stop at the ski place on the summit. I also hate to get stuck. Y'all have me half talked into adding a locker into my rear end rebuild, just for that one time. It will probably cost me another diamond to do it. Rrr.
If you do it, I strongly recommend you consider going with a selectable option like an ARB or Eaton E-Locker. It's not clear what you drive, but there's likely support for it.
