questions for this up coming winter

[cherokee Wheeler10]

what do you guys do to keep your xjs running after mud runs. last winter i lost my altenater to mud. and just herd that if your hood goes under water that you have to change out all of your fluids cause water can get in them or something like that??? Also can wheeling through mud hard and fast mess up your alignement. help me out cause my girlfriend loves mud running over winter and the more she goes mud running the more i get to wheel so if you could help me. the only advise any has ever giving me about mud is to stay out of it or you will pay for it.

Thanks for your help

 

[SeanP]

Re: questions f~p this up cnminv!winter

you won't find many people on this board that are into mud.

My last run through mud at Prahrie`Aitx in`3000 cob~ md:
,1) Tranny seal behindp|he torque converter. Ended up dropping the tranny three times to change the seal and then replace the flex plate
2) Alternator
2) PZB seals.

MUD=EVIL

Winters are for building your rig and goinf onpnov run.

SdjnP

 

[Jes]

Winters are for building your rig and going on snow runs.

SeanP

Winters are for going to JV.

 

[Letterman]

MUD=EVIL

Winters are for building your rig and going on snow runs.

Mud is fun for the first 5 minutes, but the 25 hours of fix'in and cleaning you stuff for that 5 minutes is not worth it.

Snow if fun! Or as Jes pointed out, just head down south!

 

[crazy4mopar]

Mud sucks.........:soapbox:
15 minutes of fun, 36.00 to clean up under my junk,2 weekends of scraping mud from the places the car wash missed:doh:

 

[Big Red]

Mud can be alot of fun in a bigger park like I've seen at the Badlands in Attica, IN. That was the only wheeling that I had over in the Midwest, that's why I wanted to move to Cali for bad and do the Con & Fordyce. Prairie City is fun for a little bit going through it, but would be alot better if there was actual trails through some woods or creek or something like the small section in Hollister Hills that Letterman has some issue with early this year. :laugh3: Otherwise just an open area like Prairie City gets old real quick. I bring a hose and hose off as much mud as I can in their parking lot before I head home. I live in a gated townhouse community and they don't take to kindly to me hosing off all my mud when I get home.


I've never been to JV, but have seen lots of video/read about it. Can we get some dates down this year for a run hooking up with the SOCAL group as well? We hosted in our part of the state just recently. A good snow run is trying to hit the trails used for Winter Fun Fest like the Malakoff Diggins trail. It gets lots of snow and twice I haven't been able to make it all the way to the lake, only a little past the small town outpost.
Troy

 

[SeanP]

plus, every time you work under your jeep you are getting dirt in your mouth and eyes.

no thanks. Granite is good for me.

 

[BrettM]

It's been 2 years since I've played in mud and only just recently have I been able to work under my truck and not get dirt falling in my eyes. This is after many car-washes and snow as well.

Mud sucks.

Snow is fun though, and you're rig comes out cleaner than it went in.

One thing I hate about the mid-west, whenever someone finds out I have a lifted truck the first question is always "do you go mudding!?"

 

[Big Red]

It's been 2 years since I've played in mud and only just recently have I been able to work under my truck and not get dirt falling in my eyes. This is after many car-washes and snow as well.

Mud sucks.

Snow is fun though, and you're rig comes out cleaner than it went in.

One thing I hate about the mid-west, whenever someone finds out I have a lifted truck the first question is always "do you go mudding!?"

Mudding is alot of fun especially if a girl wants to go with you Brett. :laugh: It is very messy and requires lots of work to clean up like everyone is saying. I'm from the Midwest and that is all there is out there in the form of wheeling. The Badlands in Attica has some rock crawling in the quary area, but that's about it. Plus is costs like $20 a day to get into that 750 acre park. The Midwest does have some nice black mud that you can really fling around, the stuff in Praire City is alot more clay and the MTR's don't do so good in that stuff. Not much would except maybe SS Boggers.

 

[cherokee Wheeler10]

so you dont recomend the little mud wheel8ing at pararie

 

[crazy4mopar]

so you dont recomend the little mud wheel8ing at pararie

NO!!!!!:twak:
THAT SH*T IS THE WORST, IT'S LIKE CONCRETE WHEN IT DRY'S :twak:

 

[Big Red]

NO!!!!!:twak:
THAT SH*T IS THE WORST, IT'S LIKE CONCRETE WHEN IT DRY'S :twak:

Yeah, what Lee said. PC has clay that turns to concrete. This isn't mud, mud is black Midwest stuff that gives you at least some traction. This stuff at PC gets caught in your tires and renders them useless. The mtr's especially are not good in this stuff as are most tires except maybe for ss boggers. I still like going there. If anyone wants to go in the next few months when it starts raining here, then post it and we'll try to get a group out. Just bring a hose with you so we can hose off in the PC parking lot and bring as little of that clay/concrete out of PC.

Plus PC is really cracking down on people not having fender flairs and it would suck to go there only to be ticketed, I rather take my changes being ticketed on the street or on a real trail then at that joint.

 

[Kernel]

mud sucks. :smsoap: i still have hollister $hit in my frame rail from like 10 yrs ago.

winter is for fixing/upgrading the things you broke during summer.