kookookachew

Ok heres some from when I got stuck last weekend, and ended up snapping the front driveshaft. Had to try and make it out in 2wd with an open diff, took all weekend to get it out!

Moose08

^^^ Ouch

kookookachew

Yeah, tell me about it. It wasn't a fun weekend.

4ctnduction

damn, looks like a lot of frame draggin ha

kookookachew

Yeah, frame and axle draggin. When I jacked it up to put in on boards the whole bottom of the truck had a 2 inch thick sheet of ice clung to the bottom that I had to break off little by little with a hammer. The wheels were all frozen solid, due to being full of ice. Thats how I snapped the shaft, trying to break the wheels loose with power.

kookookachew

The hole that it was in were soo deep that I was able to fit in those cement blocks that are a foot tall and two feet long, into the holes, and then I began stacking boards on top of that!

SailorDon

What is the alternative to waiting for the spring thaw? Blowtorch?

kookookachew

Yeah, I unbolted the wheels, and used a mixture of the hammer and a blow torch to free the wheels up, (about an hour or so per wheel). Once I finally got it out, I parked it in the garage and left the kerosene heater on for a couple of days to defrost it a bit.

If I had let it sit till spring the truck would have been totalled, that area floods really bad in the spring and the truck would have been under water.

Its back on the road now, no worse for the wear except for being a 2x4 for now.

4ctnduction

we tend to go offroading every weekend since we are always up at someones ranch, but we park the trucks and take the jeeps haha. they dont sink like the trucks do

ak_cowboy