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If I am going out with the intention of muddin, I put peel-offs on when I get to the pit. You know, the things the Nascar Boys use. If it is spur of the moment I just grab a handful of rags out of the bed box and start wiping.
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P.S. Don't use your shirt to clean the windshield. Especially if the wife got it for you for a gift. Damn the couch is uncomfortable.
T. Roberts
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From: southwest pa
i race gokarts on a dirt track, forget the nascar boys makin good use of the peel offs, when you don't have anything between you and the open air we really need those things. i've done quite a few things to keep mud off that might be applicable. i've used wd-40 with the most success though. just rub it on before you go out so that its thin enough to cover, but not too thick that you get distorted vision. another thing i've seen done is to spray something with liquid teflon (something like the new bathroom cleaner stuff) and it won't stick much. none of this stuff does any good in getting the mud off, just keeps it from sticking as much.
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From: okc
im with ivan, i put snow grade wipers on my truck and keep my hand by the washer toggle.........good thing i dont wear contacts cause my heads always out the window!!! but i gotta admit the mud still stings when your tires are spinnin at full throttle!!!!!!!! 
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From: iowa
[QUOTE=SwOkcOffRoader]im with ivan, i put snow grade wipers on my truck and keep my hand by the washer toggle.........good thing i dont wear contacts cause my heads always out the window!!! but i gotta admit the mud still stings when your tires are spinnin at full throttle!!!!!!!! QUOTE]
I have it easy apperantly, I don't have wipers at all, and don't stick my head out the window, just leave it down about 2inches keep my foot mashed on the throttle until I see the finish line pass by.
QUOTE]I have it easy apperantly, I don't have wipers at all, and don't stick my head out the window, just leave it down about 2inches keep my foot mashed on the throttle until I see the finish line pass by.
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From: okc
Originally Posted by monsterbaby
I have it easy apperantly, I don't have wipers at all, and don't stick my head out the window, just leave it down about 2inches keep my foot mashed on the throttle until I see the finish line pass by.
am i wrong , or do you race in a straight line???
out in the trails i drive through if you drive like that your gonna get very personal with a tree or another truck... 
although i really wanna try to race through a mud pit sometime, seems like it would be a blast......... 
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From: iowa
[QUOTE=SwOkcOffRoader]am i wrong , or do you race in a straight line??? QUOTE]
nope you aren't wrong that is why I said I had it easy
I used to do trail runnin, and such when I lived out west, but here in the midwest all the trail running is on private property, and isn't worth building a rig for that to me, for some this is great but I got to used to being able to run fire roads, and highline roads, logging roads etc and making a few of my own so playing on someone elses back 40 doesn't hold alot of attraction to me.
QUOTE]nope you aren't wrong that is why I said I had it easy
I used to do trail runnin, and such when I lived out west, but here in the midwest all the trail running is on private property, and isn't worth building a rig for that to me, for some this is great but I got to used to being able to run fire roads, and highline roads, logging roads etc and making a few of my own so playing on someone elses back 40 doesn't hold alot of attraction to me.
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From: okc
Originally Posted by monsterbaby
so playing on someone elses back 40 doesn't hold alot of attraction to me.
man i hear that, ive gotten a few trespassing fines, they arent much but they're enough to keep me off private land nowadays, ive found a few spots here in oklahoma along the rivers that are pretty fun to mud in,and the locals dont mind, heck most of them have rigs too, there is one spot along our part of the canadian river that has old private property signs but no one knows who owns it, there are guys that have wheeled there for 15+ years and light a bonfire every weekend, there isnt many challenging areas but it has a few....i love going there and watching them get their blazers stuck, then i pull em out and drive through the hole they were stuck in, really burns them chebby guys up....
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From: Florida Hill Country
I have it easy apperantly, I don't have wipers at all, and don't stick my head out the window, just leave it down about 2inches keep my foot mashed on the throttle until I see the finish line pass by.
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From: Senoia, GA
Originally Posted by SwOkcOffRoader
man i hear that, ive gotten a few trespassing fines, they arent much but they're enough to keep me off private land nowadays
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Where Monterbaby races, he isnt exaggerating a bit- The pits are pretty much just two sets of ruts filled with runny pudding type mud, the few times I went to race there, the flying mud spray was so bad that all you really could see was the announcers shack going by. At least the ruts pretty much hold you in so there isnt any steering input needed.