I finally got to go out and play in the mud, but not for long. The truck did great in the mud but as soon as I hit some standing water it developed a terrible miss and started stalling every few minutes. I had to get out (thank god I brought some boots) and tighten some connections just to get restarted. I had to solder a wire to the starter (dripped hot solder right on my chin, sucked alot) and then had to limp back to a friends house. Truck ran like a turd and I couldn't go above 20 mph. I popped the hood checked all of the plugs, the cap and wires, etc...; and just let it idle for about 10 minutes while I did that. It ran fine after that! I am assuming that I got moisture somewhere that I shouldn't have. Oh well. I am going to put a posting in the mechanical section about that, if you have any advice.

Anyways, next time I will go out during the day (this was at 1 am, we got bored with doing body work on another truck) and get some good action pics.

Oh yeah, the Rocker tires ruled in the mud! I wound up flying up behind some people that got stuck and had to stop. I had no problem getting going again. They aren't terrible on the road (as long as it is dry). I was seriously thinking about replacing them with something else but now I don't know.

 

Lookin good!

I'm just jealous that that we just got 12 more inches of snow in the last two days. So much for global warming Mr. Gore.

 

thanx for the pics. glad to see someone having fun already. i hear you too Ty,can't wait for the snow to leave. a little more here again today, but starting to melt. still going to be awhile.

 

I love snow, but not when Im at school and cant go snowmobiling. At that point it's just worthless.

 

How do you like those Pitbulls?

 

 

I went out hoping to climb up a hill so I could get some pictures on an old abandoned bridge. The tires would start spinning and I couldn't climb up the rest of the way. With a little more effort I could've probably made it.

On the way out I decided to run through the one mud hole there. I didn't make it. As soon as I edit some photo editing software on the new computer I will load the pics of me being stuck. This is the aftermath. I still need to fix the leaking tranny.