Plenty of mud and water in Florida

[Gsmith]

Sometimes slow and easy works, sometimes you have to turn the tires over pretty good to clean them out. Learning to go through mud is an experience, and can be a messy experience. Sometimes you're gonna get stuck no matter what. Lot's of people don't like mud and water and I don't blame them, it gets in everything and ruins brakes, bearings etc. Plenty of maintenance involved in vehicles that are used in these situations. I have always lived here however and love it!

Some people tend to keep on trying to get out once they're stuck and all that does is make the situation worse. Once you see momentum is lost and you can't move forward or backwards stop spinning wheels and start planning on how to get unstuck.

Glenn

[MoparNorm]

Amen, once you're past the stuck part and into the sucking part it's a nightmare and a night long exercise to extricate. I sunk my Van up to it's headlight one night in the San Gabriel River, it took three trucks and a wrecker to get me out.



Before you travel into mud or water, look under your rig and determine the elevation of your transmission, transfer case and axle, vents. Jeep normally has vent extensions that are only a few feet long, Dodge may not have vent extensions at all.
You cannot venture into water deeper than your vents or extensions without sustaining damage to your drive-train.
You must extend the vents to at least as high as your air cleaner or higher if you have a snorkel. Water and especially mud, will push past seals and into vents, the psi is amazing and water and mud inside an axle, transmission, or transfer case will ruin your day and your next four months paychecks....

[Clint Dixon]

Amen - AMEN!

Amen, once you're past the stuck part and into the sucking part it's a nightmare ....

I once found that I was stuck in a job that I didn't like, then it started to suck and quickly turned into a nightmare.....wait....I still work there!

Years ago I joined some four-wheel-drive clubs. We mostly wheeled around the Mississippi and Wapsipinicon river bottoms where there is no more traction once water starts seaping up from the bottom of the ruts that one is creating in the mud. I had a big Warn winch. Most of the other members did not have a winch and liked to spin their tires until the frame of their truck was resting on the surface. Guess who got elected to winch them all out? That quickly grew old.