my first time wheelin' story

[nascar_intimid]

I took my kids out with me today and we started off pretty mild and then I got real brave and went into the woods on a trail that hasn't been used all winter. The 94' was working real fine bogging down somewhat but I have got a pretty good right foot and a good eye for the less troublesome grooves when I seem to be getting in pretty deep, so the X is covered from top to bottom in mud, snow and clay after about an hour. So we start heading home because the kids were starting to get hungry, when I decided to go on one more excursion....turns out to be a bad idea. It was the thick sticky mud (you know the kind I mean ) and I was driving up a burm and didn't want to go down the other side with the kids in the truck with me so I stopped and backed up and turned 90 degrees to the right and shifted to drive and oops nothing but spinnig ( I do have a good right foot don't forget) so I started to rock back and forth and still nothing hmmmmm, so I get out and sink myself down in my boots about an 1 1/2" ( oh great) the truck was buried about 6 inches down from the axels by now so I pull the shovel out ( snow shovel ) and start making trenches for the wheels to crawl in, I'm covered in clay and sticky mud by now also. Now I start rocking the truck back and forth and I start making head way ( you know reverse then brake and hold it shift to drive throttle then brake and so on) I get a rhythm going and finally get out after about 10 shifts. Now I'm worried about what kind of damage I did to the tranny...It still operates as if nothing happened. But I did learn a few things yesterday...not to go it alone was the major one. Then I was to complacent about where I stopped after I reversed to turn around. Anyway I wanted to share my first real wheelin' day with you. Oh yeah I'm still trying to get the under chassis clean...It was stuck deep..... :exp:
well...what do you think for a newbie???

 

[collkid]

Very cool, my friend and i didn't somthing about the same last week... we got so stuck I pulled while he drove. This however did kill the trany. As putting the car into reverse to take out 4x4, it still went forward. It cost him about $2800 to fix... We also are beginners at this game

 

[nascar_intimid]

could have got a rebuild cheaper than that. What was done to it??

 

[nascar_intimid]

that happened to me in my GMC but that was from slamming it into drive while reversing and hammering it...but it drove itself back to normal though...sorry to hear about your bad luck...

 

[vervepipes]

not just newbies get stuck last week me and a friend came across a well seasoned trail driver in a durango and had to use both our trucks to unstuck him. i was driving my trail rig (84 K5 blazer) and my friend in his 89 F250 with 460. the best place to learn off roading is the army

 

[AspenX]

Sounds fun. To get the underside clean put a water sprinkler under there for a while.

 

[nascar_intimid]

good point... will do the next time.

 

[vervepipes]

i just went muddin today, but to get underneith clean i went door-deep into what i thought was just a patch of ice.... good thing my friend was there with his f250 to get me out haha