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Not me, by the way. It's 20 degrees and snowing where I am and I haven't gotten stuck.

 

I rather liked the moron stuck in a 4 wheel drive on 52" tires and no front drive shaft.

 

Even with 4x4. The Ex is a pig. It's to dam heavy. I have a Jeep Liberty 4x4 and that is great on the beach. I'm affraid to put the Ex there. It may just get swallowed up.

But at least I have my front drive shaft connected. :-)

 

So there IS something to upgrade after the Excursion's years are fading! Whew, i was worried there for a moment.

 

I don't think those deck guns will help with the traffic though. You'd have to shim them up or use a flame thrower.

On the plus side, at least your kid's can practice on the way to their sporting games.

 

A couple friends and I decided to go wheelin' in the NJ dunes during a tropical storm. A Subaru SUS(Sport Utility Sedan) with some special modifications, my 96 legacy wagon, and another guy's 94 legacy wagon. Only the SUS got stuck, because he rocked it up a hill and over an embankment. We tried to pull him with no success. Just then a Bronco and I think a Jimmy came along, and we spent 2+ hours of them trying to double pull us out. Eventually we made it, luckily. Going strait though, my legacy was sunk beyond the axels, and never got stuck.

Here's some videos, you can't see it, but it's raining to beat hell. The girlfriend is taking the videos, standing out in the rain. What a trooper!
http://serial.cc/simplepic/albums/vids/vid1.mpg
http://serial.cc/simplepic/albums/vids/vid2.mpg
http://serial.cc/simplepic/albums/vids/vid3.mpg
http://serial.cc/simplepic/albums/vids/vid4.mpg
http://serial.cc/simplepic/albums/vids/vid5.mpg

Off road like that, I'll stick to my subaru's. They go fast, and are virtually indistructable:
This is parked and intentional. I pulled strait up the hill from here, about a 40 degree incline in mud.




This is parked, and intentional. Not stuck.






Opps, seems I broke hte bead on one of the tires...


Off road is fun, but not for the Excursion IMO. Slow, long wheel base, extremely heavy, if you get stuck, you are really stuck... The excursion for me will happily trailer subaru's to the tracks though. Light weight, all wheel drive, and take a serious beating. That blue one was mine, and my daily driver. Cleaned to spotless perfection after every run, inside and out. I recently sold it for $2800, with 219,xxx miles on it. It still ran perfectly.

 

You see a little misinformation goes a long way! Air down! I've pulled my 26' travel trailer out onto the beach no problem and I mean soft sand not hard pack or wet. just drop air pressure down to 20# and you can go almost anywhere, if you do start to bog down STOP and let another 5# out and just drive away.

 

Driving style goes a long way. You don't need massive amounts of power to pull the mud or beach. I'd much rather go slow and not spray everything up my fenders, as long as I don't spin my tires, I usually can keep going. However, we have a lot of coquina on our beach, so driving may be different elsewhere.

 

Do not use this driving style:

 

But it works so good on drag strips in Sweden.

 

lol that guy in sweden is nuts, thats one of the worlds fastest 94-96 Impala SS's.

 

I'm curious as to why he would need tow mirrors for a 1/4 mile straight run.

 

He towed to the strip with the SS. I met him many years ago, he was very funny. Last I kept up with it John Rathenseth had the fastest, somewhere in the high 9s.

 

jay, are those pics in the Pines? off of route 70???

 

The Truck on 52's "had" a drive shaft when it came to the beach. You can see it hanging down off the front diff. Looks like it was cut too short or just broke.