I had a chance to try out the Goodyear Wrangler MT/R Kevlars in the mud this weekend. Suffice it to say that they're a lot better than the stock Conti-Tracs! But if you've ever read any of my posts before, you know I'll end up stuck.

Just once though...
Although it's getting more difficult to extract since I can now get "stuck-er".

Enjoy these couple of pics. The video is in two parts. The extraction is in the 2nd video.


I got stuck first. My back tires were hung up in a rut and the front tires coupldn't pull me out.




Brother in law on Baja Claws tried to get me out, but ended up stuck, too!




VIDEO 1


Video 2

 

That's the kind of mud we get in Lubbock when it rains, but it never rains here. I'm jealous.

Why was the front tires on the Chebby not spinning? It is really a 4x2?

 

I think it's time to get a little mini-bike to keep in the bed. It would save a lot of time when you go to get help.

Looks better without the air dam.

 

Nice videos and pics I love to see stuff like that on here keep em coming looks like a awesome time.

You ain't been muddin if you ain't been stuck

BTW your truck looks better without that big plastic skirt on it.

 

great vid's makes me jealous as we don't have anything like that here.

 

The Chevy was in 2wd for that part of the video.
I've never been to the Lubbock area. In my area there's a lot of sandy loam with a shallow bed of red clay. As you can tell by us driving in the same area multiple times, most places have firm, slick bottom. Every once and a while we'll hit a soft spot and sink pretty fast. You just never kow when the bottom will fall out!


Yeah, the plastic piece was begging to get ripped off, and sure enough it did. The bumper does look a little "unfinished" without it, though. Maybe this weekend I'll price the shorter valence. If its not too much cash, I might pick one up.

 

Nice truck and great songs! rep sent.

 

Most of what I've been in out here is bottomless muck, lots of sandy topsoil that never seems to end and swallows stuff up to the frame rails, but I usually only drive through cotton fields or pastures that were cotton fields recently, so that might have something to do with it. But the dirt roads here are like what you described, a good foot of muck and loose junk then a hard bed of caliche or clay underneath. As long as the tires clean out, the caliche stops you from digging down and you can keep slogging forward.

 

wish we got mud here in utah!

 

I got stuck in my own pasture last spring, trying to turn my horse trailer around <sigh>.... My '49 Ford 8N came to the rescue then for me, and pulled both truck and trailer to higher drier ground - indeed, thank God for tractors!! LOL!!

The whole time I'm spinning tires and slinging mud though, I'm thinking, "OMG it's gonna take FOR.EV.ER to get them both clean again!" Our mud truly sucks here - it stains everything it touches!

 

Yes it does.
I have given up on keeping my truck clean.

 

you gotta get it dirty before you get to clean it!

 

You ever gonno go mudd'n and not get stuck lol!

What sized tires are them anyhow, look pretty stock-ish?

I got to get some new tires... these contitracs have a tough time getting me to my treestand thats for sure! Driving up the muddy field path along the corn field uphill I almost got stuck... one spot were I continously would spin and start rolling backwards down the hill. My little 150 would hardly ever even spin at all going up that. But the 350 is about double the weight practically, and on skinnier pizza cutters too!

 

I did go muddin', once I think, and didn't get stuck. Oh wait... not that time!

I usually have way to get out, so I don't mind horsing around a little [ok a lot].

The tires are LT285/75/18, which measures out to about 35x11.5". They're not much wider, but a good 2" taller than stock. The 5.4L turns them pretty decent in the mud, and I owe a lot of that to the 4.10 axle gears. A set of 4.30 or even 4.56 gears are definately bubbling around in my brain right now, and I think I'll likely regear in 6 months when I drop an ARB in the rear axle. I'd really like to get some positive traction out of the rear axle, which you can see fails to hook up at times with the OEM limited slip.






One of the things I love about wheelin' and posting pictures of wheelin' on the internet forums is that it inspires other people to tell stories about wheelin and muddin' and navigating difficult terrain in their trucks. If I'm lucky, another guy will post a pic or a vid of his truck out in the back 40 flexed out in a ditch or bogged down in the mud or snow. I guess it's like sitting around the campfire for 21st century dudes stuck at dest and computer.

 

Looks like you be having some fun there. All that mud scares me though. Not that I'm a neat freak or my truck is a pri-madonna or anything.

I would share stories, but all mine are about snow. Most muddin' I've ever done was in a dry field during August, and I was just backing up.