so a few days ago at around 1:30am, i got a call on my cell phone. i had to be at work in the morning at 7am, but i answered it anyway. (wasn't sleeping yet)
it's my friend, who has a '91 toyota 4x4, v6, and 31" tires. nothing else done to it. as the story goes, he went mudding and got stuck. i already had a chain in the back of my truck, so i just drove over to where he was (only 15min away) and pulled him out. (with my '94- i love this thing)
a few days later, my friend is pissed that the mud pit conquored him, so myself, him, and another friend went back to it to mess around a bit.
a bit of background on the location- it's a pretty simple layout. there's some blacktop, then 10-15 feet of wet slimy grass, then a 2 foot very steep hill, into the mud pit (which is about 8-9" deep easily), then it's a slow but steady incline into a field. the mud is very, very sticky, and swamp like. there's lots of grass particles and swamp-like grass groing in the bottom of it. the total length of the pit drop off to the feild is about 15 feet or so.
my friend rich went first, (with the '91 toyota, 31" tires, v6, auto-locking hubs, who origionally got stuck). he went barreling into this pit in second gear, got bogged down, and buried it up to the axles. i pulled him out, and he tried again. this time with a little more speed. he made it to the other side! woo! (this is pretty deep mud, mind you) he backs up into the field a bit, and tries to make it back, but gets caught up at the dropoff. i hooked the chain up, and pulled him out.
keeling (the other guy) went next. he's got an '89 dodge dakota, 31" tires, 3" body lift, auto-locking hubs, and a newly rebuilt v6. his outcome is the same as the aforementioned. (buried, except he was over the axles, easily. the mud was more than half way up his tires) i hooked the chain to him, put my truck in 4 low, tightened up the chain, and feathered the gas. his truck is more mid-sized, or full sized than mine is. my truck started sliding sideways, so i countersteered, my tires dug in, and i yanked him right out. (i was proud of my little 22re 4 cylander which is BONE stock!) his truck got nice and muddy, his rims have a huge offset, so his tires pop pretty far out from the bodyline.
i'm next. my truck is a '94 toyota 4x4, manual locking hubs, 22re 4 cylander, 31" tires, and that's all that's really related to going in the mud. (my tires are a little more knobby than theirs are)
i floor it in first, get up to about 3800rpm in second, and plow down this hill into the mud. immediatly i become bogged down, so i hit first gear wicked fast, and pin the throttle again. mud is flying everywhere. (my rims have a nice offset on them, so the tires bulge out from the fenders a bit) chunks of mud were flying all over the place. i was holding it at 4k rpm in first gear, and i pulled through it! woo! sweet! but it's not over yet!
now i have to get back up that drop off. i back into the field, floor it in first, hit second hard, up to about 3700rpm, into the pit i go, immediatly bogged down so i hit first again. mud is everywhere. it was splashing 10-12 feet to either side of me. my front tires hit the drop off section, and i started to pull right up it! i was in disbelief! i kept on the gas, and then my rear tires were on it, and i kept pulling! i made it out, covered in mud, and with a shit-eating grin on my face. (they're always busting my ass about how i have a 4 cylander, and they have 6's.)
it was a hella good time, but it was time to go, as we probably would have gotten in trouble had we stayed there. anyway, that's my brief story on our first attempt at mudding with relatively stock trucks.
though, i'm definatly going to get lockers or true tracks now, along with a gearing reduction and 33x12.5's. (springtime)
does anyone know if lockers are still decent for daily driving? and if it would matter if i put a locker in the front, and a truc-trac in the rear (for daily-drivability?)
thanks for reading, and on to some pics the day after-
take note of the mud and crap all stuck in the front axles where the CV boots are. haha
and the dodge dakota-
unfortunately, there are no pics of the other toyota pickup.
-shaeff
it's my friend, who has a '91 toyota 4x4, v6, and 31" tires. nothing else done to it. as the story goes, he went mudding and got stuck. i already had a chain in the back of my truck, so i just drove over to where he was (only 15min away) and pulled him out. (with my '94- i love this thing)
a few days later, my friend is pissed that the mud pit conquored him, so myself, him, and another friend went back to it to mess around a bit.
a bit of background on the location- it's a pretty simple layout. there's some blacktop, then 10-15 feet of wet slimy grass, then a 2 foot very steep hill, into the mud pit (which is about 8-9" deep easily), then it's a slow but steady incline into a field. the mud is very, very sticky, and swamp like. there's lots of grass particles and swamp-like grass groing in the bottom of it. the total length of the pit drop off to the feild is about 15 feet or so.
my friend rich went first, (with the '91 toyota, 31" tires, v6, auto-locking hubs, who origionally got stuck). he went barreling into this pit in second gear, got bogged down, and buried it up to the axles. i pulled him out, and he tried again. this time with a little more speed. he made it to the other side! woo! (this is pretty deep mud, mind you) he backs up into the field a bit, and tries to make it back, but gets caught up at the dropoff. i hooked the chain up, and pulled him out.
keeling (the other guy) went next. he's got an '89 dodge dakota, 31" tires, 3" body lift, auto-locking hubs, and a newly rebuilt v6. his outcome is the same as the aforementioned. (buried, except he was over the axles, easily. the mud was more than half way up his tires) i hooked the chain to him, put my truck in 4 low, tightened up the chain, and feathered the gas. his truck is more mid-sized, or full sized than mine is. my truck started sliding sideways, so i countersteered, my tires dug in, and i yanked him right out. (i was proud of my little 22re 4 cylander which is BONE stock!) his truck got nice and muddy, his rims have a huge offset, so his tires pop pretty far out from the bodyline.
i'm next. my truck is a '94 toyota 4x4, manual locking hubs, 22re 4 cylander, 31" tires, and that's all that's really related to going in the mud. (my tires are a little more knobby than theirs are)
i floor it in first, get up to about 3800rpm in second, and plow down this hill into the mud. immediatly i become bogged down, so i hit first gear wicked fast, and pin the throttle again. mud is flying everywhere. (my rims have a nice offset on them, so the tires bulge out from the fenders a bit) chunks of mud were flying all over the place. i was holding it at 4k rpm in first gear, and i pulled through it! woo! sweet! but it's not over yet!
now i have to get back up that drop off. i back into the field, floor it in first, hit second hard, up to about 3700rpm, into the pit i go, immediatly bogged down so i hit first again. mud is everywhere. it was splashing 10-12 feet to either side of me. my front tires hit the drop off section, and i started to pull right up it! i was in disbelief! i kept on the gas, and then my rear tires were on it, and i kept pulling! i made it out, covered in mud, and with a shit-eating grin on my face. (they're always busting my ass about how i have a 4 cylander, and they have 6's.)
it was a hella good time, but it was time to go, as we probably would have gotten in trouble had we stayed there. anyway, that's my brief story on our first attempt at mudding with relatively stock trucks.
though, i'm definatly going to get lockers or true tracks now, along with a gearing reduction and 33x12.5's.
(springtime)does anyone know if lockers are still decent for daily driving? and if it would matter if i put a locker in the front, and a truc-trac in the rear (for daily-drivability?)
thanks for reading, and on to some pics the day after-
take note of the mud and crap all stuck in the front axles where the CV boots are. haha
and the dodge dakota-
unfortunately, there are no pics of the other toyota pickup.
-shaeff
