First snow expedition (with an explorer)

turboexplorer · February 22, 2011

Will look at that. Never really wanted to use chains because of the wheel speed. 50mph + when trying to fourth gear through snow.

They do well when its sections of snow but if its real deep everywhere not so good.

fedyfedz · February 22, 2011

turboexplorer said:
Will look at that. Never really wanted to use chains because of the wheel speed. 50mph + when trying to fourth gear through snow. They do well when its sections of snow but if its real deep everywhere not so good.

I agree and disagree, the wheel speed is slowed and you obv cant go 80mph but i rode in about 2-3 feet of snow with bald front tires and chains and got through everything, didnt get stuck once. Theres a couple different type of chains the regular chains wont get you through deep snow. The v bar chains keep digging until you hit solid material then off you go. At that point its more of a cruising around quad in the snow not a race quad, i strongly recomend the v-bar chains and they were only about 50 dollars and take about 2 min to bolt up. If i want to go really fast ill grab a snowmobile lol

turboexplorer · February 22, 2011

Very interesting. I haven't ever looked into chains for anything. Those V bar chains look wicked nasty

May have to try it. If I bring my quads up here to WY for the spring summer fall may have to grab some since there are plent of forest service roads here that we could ride on.

And yeah cruise would work but would have to hold back from slamming through the gears.

what I did am had good luck when coral pink has snow is run 2.5 psi in the rears and pin it to the top gears with the nubbys. We tried paddles in the snow they sucked. They would dig down more than they would push you forward.

May look into those for the rear of my truck to.

turboexplorer · February 22, 2011

Here was our last WY snow wheeling pics. You can see a few of these pictures how the trucks are sunk but you can see the people just walking right on top of the snow. SO hard on top. No fun to wheel in but its all there is here so i'll take it.

That's as far as I could get through there.

My friends F-150

turboexplorer · February 22, 2011

You can see my wife just standing on the snow. You could stomp for all your worth and you wouldn't go anywhere. The trucks would go on top then fall through and you where then stuck with really hard ice snow all around you.

Kinda deep!

It looks more like ice than snow.

rhauf · February 22, 2011

Dude, don't say you'll never go snow wheelin' again, snow wheelin' is awesome. instead, just say you'll get a winch or something.

hell, the risk of getting stuck adds to the thrill of the more difficult offroading, my friends and i have been pretty damn stuck and broken way out in the middle of nowhere, alone, with only a few tools. yet somehow we always manage to get out and get home. it's a blast dude. besides, you had fun, a good adrenalin rush, and you have a good story to tell now, right?

Glen4X4 · February 22, 2011

Nice truck, definitely need some tires

99EddieBauer4.0 · March 4, 2011

@corkey, yeah now that i think about it and realize that everything is okay, it was pretty fun overall and yes ik this lol thanks i'm lookin for a set now.

@cozmik, hope you got the fun you wanted! and those are the tires i was lookin to put on my ex thanks for lettin me know how you feel about them!

@prt, haha thats EXACTLY what happened to all three of us.

@wood, thanks man!

@Baddecision, thanks for the tip. and it's called old barbours trail/road..i forget. it's meant for offroading and such.

@turbo, HOLY SNOW. those are some great pics tho thanks for sharing! any tips for snow-sand wheeling? you never know who might need some...and i really like your tailights btw are they painted or did u buy them like that?

@rhauf, you are totally right! it was a great adr. rush we were amped all day pretty much lol. and we will come more prepared if/when we do it again. the wrangler did have a winch buuuuut he didn't think we'd need it so he didn't bring it -.- and yes we do have a great story to tell!

@Glen, thanks! i get my check today so hopefully i'll find a set of decent used AT tires. i have my eyes on a set of BFGs.

turboexplorer · March 4, 2011

Thanks I love my tail lights, they have a thick vinyl tint on them. Its way expensive and has to be heated to be applied but once its heated it will form so you can get it to do the curves on the tail light. My buddy owned a tint shop in Salt Lake city that did it for me for his cost and was still $70 or so. Turned out great you can see the lights through it really well and they still reflect to so its fully legal.!!

As far as tips go air down a little makes a huge difference in all off road snow I usually just go to 28-30 so you can drive home without haveing to air back up. Rocks and sand I go to 22-23. My brother in his first gen goes to 16-18 but he is WAY lighter than my second gen V8. In snow if its wicked deep try to stay straight as best as possible you spin the wheels and swing the rear end around then you will have all four tires trying to get through the snow. If the snow is deeper than your ground clearance be prepared to give her he'll or get stuck. Careful when in snow you never know what is under it, nasty rocks or sticks or holes. Went calling last weekend and had that problem ended up four feet off the road, it looked like the road, but was a drift ill have to post pics. Was so deep on my drivers side couldn't hardly open the door. Dans wyoming snow it was hard so driving was fine then ban it fell through that ice crust and was stuck good took two and a half hours to dig it out. Right side of truck was only in 8 inches of snow or so and we Never found the dirt on the drivers side. Always take good shovels!

turboexplorer · March 4, 2011

You can see when it fell through the center of the truck was sitting on that hard ice snow which made it VERY difficult to move the truck.

This is after we have moved snow out of the way.

You can see in this picture how much snow we had to shovel. We had to dig out behind it and under it because we where more or less high centered on the ice snow. So we finally got it to back up and then we had to shovel snow out from in front so after that most of the snow under the truck was moved. It was then much easier to move the truck but since it was on the side hill I talked about earlier it kept wanting to slide down into the drift. Took forever.
You can see where the truck was on top of the ice crust then where it fell through.

Meh, you could say it was deep!

turboexplorer · March 4, 2011

Dig to the side to get the ice out from under the truck.

Buddy standing in a hole he dug still not to the bottom.

That's the hole its another two feet down from where the truck was sitting. Will be interesting in the spring to go back there and see what the terrain looks like there when its not covered in snow drift.

Camping was fun though! Windy but fun.

99EddieBauer4.0 · March 7, 2011

@turbo, yeah they'd go perfect for my ex cuz i want a blacked out type look and those def would give me that. but thanks a lot for the tips and sharing more pics! looks like you have an interesting time out there lol.

turboexplorer · March 7, 2011

Not sure what the exact product name of the vinyl is but ill try to find out. Buddy is on a cruise right now so will try to remember to ask when he gets back.

Always great wheelin! If you aren't stuck or can't get up something your not wheelin hard enough!

I don't beat up the rig but its been through some awesome stuff! Lots of great pics, rocks are the best to wheel. Sliders make that way better, no worries about crushing the body. Wheel smart and its amazing how far you can get!

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