Anyone ever have so much mud on the underside of their truck that it lowered the whole truck down to almost the bump stops??? I did!!
So my friends and I decide to go test out my new tires in the local mud hole. To start with, there were 7 guys packed in the truck along with probably 100 lbs of other stuff, so I'm sure i was riding pretty low through the mud to start with, and filling up all those holes on the bottom with nice, thick, sticky, heavy clay. After bogging through the holes for a while with everyone in (damn no low range) I went through myself while everyone else watched, balls to the wall the whole time. By the time I was done my truck looked like this. On the way back to town we noticed that my truck bottomed out very easily over any kind of bump. We stopped at the car wash (no i didn't wash it off here, that would be a$$holish
, we just needed light)and when we got out and looked the truck was sitting like it was lowered! The tops of the tires were even with the fender edges in the back and front, instead of the normal 2-3" clearance! At first I thought I had broke or bent something but when i notcied the rear was the same way i decided it was just all the weight of the mud.
When i got to washing it off the next day i pressure washed for 2 hours on just the underside She finally came back up close to regular height. Couple days after that after the mud that was left (still quite a bit) had dried and weighed less it was back to normal. I got under there tonight and literally picked off at least 80 more pounds of dry mud! I can only imagine how much extra weight all of the wet mud that was on it added!
The only other casualty for the night was my front valence and 2 neon tubes (yay for StreetGlow's Warranty). The front valence was full of mud and probably weighed a good 40lbs half dry when i went back to get it the next day. I always wondered what it would look like without it, now I know! I will be posting a WTB in the For Sale, Trade, and Wanted Forum shortly
So my friends and I decide to go test out my new tires in the local mud hole. To start with, there were 7 guys packed in the truck along with probably 100 lbs of other stuff, so I'm sure i was riding pretty low through the mud to start with, and filling up all those holes on the bottom with nice, thick, sticky, heavy clay. After bogging through the holes for a while with everyone in (damn no low range) I went through myself while everyone else watched, balls to the wall the whole time. By the time I was done my truck looked like this. On the way back to town we noticed that my truck bottomed out very easily over any kind of bump. We stopped at the car wash (no i didn't wash it off here, that would be a$$holish
, we just needed light)and when we got out and looked the truck was sitting like it was lowered! The tops of the tires were even with the fender edges in the back and front, instead of the normal 2-3" clearance! At first I thought I had broke or bent something but when i notcied the rear was the same way i decided it was just all the weight of the mud.When i got to washing it off the next day i pressure washed for 2 hours on just the underside
She finally came back up close to regular height. Couple days after that after the mud that was left (still quite a bit) had dried and weighed less it was back to normal. I got under there tonight and literally picked off at least 80 more pounds of dry mud! I can only imagine how much extra weight all of the wet mud that was on it added!The only other casualty for the night was my front valence and 2 neon tubes (yay for StreetGlow's Warranty). The front valence was full of mud and probably weighed a good 40lbs half dry when i went back to get it the next day. I always wondered what it would look like without it, now I know! I will be posting a WTB in the For Sale, Trade, and Wanted Forum shortly
