Worst 4X4 experience???

[BOSS3024ME]

OK just kinda having a slow morning and was wondering what was the WORST time you had offroad.<br><br>Mine would have to be my first time offroad in my old Chebby pickup when I found out the important rule 4X4 does NOT mean go anywhere!!!!!<br><br>One big mud hole and a 3 speed tranny later I learned this lesson well.<br><br>How about you??<br><br>Paul

 

[rebelbronc]

went wheelin' near school one day, and thought we'd go through a mudhole my buddys stock wrangler with BFG A/T's went through a couple of weeks earlier. yea, it definitely wasnt the same hole anymore. well after all our friends except one decided they had better things to do than wait on us to get the truck started (wasnt goin to, fried the ECU, stupid japanese engineering just had to put it under the seat ), we finally got a tow about 11:30 that night

http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/finder4x4/mud1.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/finder4x4/nicen2.jpg

just cut and paste i reckon if you really wanna see 'em

 

[flint_knapper]

got stuck in a water hole that had a corps of a cow in it,<br>talk about a stinking mess!!!!!

 

[Jeep Slayer]

Man if you only had the time. I got a load of them :-X

 

[supermottl]

Ewwwrip! Farkin NASTY!!!! :-X :-X<br> rebelbronc, pics didn't work for me? Are they up! <br>By buddy buried his explorer axles deep in the sand, nervous, but we dug ourselves out. Not bad compared to dead things floating w/ you! LOL<br>

 

[Outshine2]

K it's not really an offroading story... but funny... I just got home from work (so wearing nice slacks and button up shirt etc...) and decided I would run down to the local gas station to grab some sodas for the girl and I... decided to take a shortcut back to my house by going through a field by the gas station... there was a little stream running through the dirt field that I had passed over many times, but in different spots and in 4wd... so i headed up towards a more narrow part and decided to cruise through cause I didn't want to get out and lock up the hubs... not good, it was way deep... hit the ditch hard and got it buried up to the top of the front diff... both of the huge sodas in the back flew forward and drenched me and the rest of the bronco... then in my nice clothes i had to get out and walk through the mud... it took 2 jeeps to pull me out (where is another Bronco when you need one?) and it was right outside of this busy gas station off a major highway... yeah, it was good!

 

[americanhorses]

My wife and I were on our annual week in the desert in our fully loaded down F-250. We were headed for an old mine and took a wrong fork in the 'road'. The 'road' petered out into deep sand, I tryed to back-up, buried the rear end, tryed to pull forward, now the running boards are flat on the ground.<br>This started about 1:00 in the afternoon, finaly got out a little after midnite with the help of a 4x4 Kabota tractor. Condenced version.<br><br>No cows involved ;D

 

[cobranco]

Had a 89' Wrangler with a 4bangler up to Silver Lake. Went thru a water hole too fast and sucked H2O into the motor. Stalled in the middle of the hole. After getting pulled out, it took a half hour of drying and cranking to get it running. Only now it had this annoying knocking sound. I headed straight for home doing 55mph with my foot to the floor and the motor bangin' away. Long story short, 2 hours of fun cost me $900 and all summer to get it fixed. Sold it right after that.

 

[DPM77]

Maiden voyage of my ex's 89 YJ,(pre EB), the thing was 3 months old, she was an off road newbie. We were going down a gravel road in the rain, from one trail to another, following my buddy in his Dodge W200, in November, and she says she wants to drive off-road. I let her. Tried to instruct her as to the dangers of a gravel road, after considerable rainfall."stay to the center, don't ride the shoulders..." she says, "you mean like this?" and promptly drives the jeep over to the shoulder, losing control, and ending up mounting a cedar stump(old growth, 4' across). Good thing cause it was a 30' steep drop to rocks. I'm looking out hte window at air. I tell her to get out, and when she does, the jeep starts leaning my way, grab her by the jacket and pull her back in. climbed over to her side, and then she got out. No CB, pouring rain, Rick is long gone, and she's yelling at me to get out of the jeep before it goes over. No way I'm moving, my weight is all that is keeping the thing on the road. Three minutes later, here comes Rick. I explain the weight problem, and he ties the jeep off to a tree across the road with a come along, and by the grace of god a guy came driving up in a 3/4 ton Chevy, with a winch. Took some careful snatchblock winching and about an hour to get it back on the road. This was the day after Thanksgiving, 1990, and if you talk to people here they will still remember "The Storm". It was raining like hell, and it got dark. Wherever that guy with the Chevy is, I hope he won the lottery. He was out for a drive with his wife and baby, who sat patiently in the rig the whole time, when I thanked her, she smiled and said good luck. <br><br>Front right fender; toast, stock front bumper; toast, frame; bent, right front tire; toast(flat, with a bent rim). Under hood inspection by flashlight showed radiator cowling removal was necessary, but it fired up and ran. <br><br>Amazing thing was, I drove it into Monroe, did a better inspection at a gas station, and drove it home to Seattle, (only 50 miles). With all that damage, at 50 mph, it tracked straight down the road. <br><br>30 days, and 5,000.00 in insurance money later, it was back on the road.<br><br>In my humble opinion, there can be no bad experiences with Ernie. Breakdowns, rolling him, stucks, they are all good ;D

 

[orange69]

My worst experience was when I had my best friend's girlfriend and her friend in my Ranger. Only two of us were buckled in. The girl in the middle wasn't. We were following my friend in a '72 Blazer with 36 inch Gumbos who was going really slow through this meadow. As I pulled around to pass him, doing around 30-35 mph I saw a couple of small ruts about three feet long, maybe 4-6 inches deep. Nothing to worry about I thought so I lined my tires up perfectly in the ruts and suddenly WAM! Instant stop. The girl in the middle (who wasn't buckled in) slammed into the widshield. Thank god she was o.k. Couldn't say the same for the windshield. The whole front end was burried in a underground marsh! The kind when you walk on grass the whole ground starts moving like a water bed. Not good, bottomless pit. So my buddy in the Blazer tries going through it and buries it up to the doors. The other guy that was with us hooks up his '69 Blazer with 36 inch Buckshots, Detroited rear. L/S front and starts pulling extremely hard. Breaks the 2 inch ball that we hooked the tow rope to and it goes flying through the windows of the stuck Blazer, missing my friend's head by less than 5 inches. Needless to say we never use a ball to hook up a tow rope! Live and learn.

 

[Amac70]

The worst in the bronco was about to weeks after i got it a buddy and me decided to go for a night run by ourselves. We cruised around to various holes and did them all and got stuck only once and after a little digging and a lot of gas got out. by this time its about 3 am on a december night in oregon probally about 10^ outside and we are pretty much lost haven't seen pavement in hours so i head up a logging road that looks to be going up to the top of a mt. about 3/4 of the way up i'm sliding around a corner just messing around and all the sudden clank clank clank bang and where at a dead stop. We were young and in the bronco couldn't tell where the noise came from tranny t case rear end. so drove a little further no noise turned another corner c lank clank bang. ah rear end. so what now broke down lost middle of no where. So we walk the rest of the way to the top of the mt and start looking for some refrence pt. Well we can see the columbia river and to the east we can see the lights of a town in washington. so we have some bearings sort of. It looks to be about 15 miles north to river and the highway we can't see but know is there. so we talk it over and decide no ones going to find us no one knows to look we ain't going to walk out of here screw pull the rear driveline and drive it till it won't drive no more. Took an hour to find a paved road. and it was a damn windy thing everytime make a little turn the left rear wheel would lock up for a bit the gears would clank and we would think oh well this is it. well after another 15 miles on that road we hit the highway finally. hmmm what now about 45mi home screw it keep driving drove 55 the whole way home got in about 6:00 am left at 5pm the night before. made a lot of noise going around the corners but it made it. When i pulled the pumpkin to look and see how much damage i had actually done it wasn't actually that bad didn't destroy the axle or the ring and pinion just the carrier and the spider gears and bearings. <br><br>moral of the story DON'T GO OUT BY YOUR SELF

 

[randall]

every experience i have off road is good, wether i get stuck or break parts or not, its all fun when its over and you can look back at the times you had and laugh

 

[rjlougee]

First bad one, was riding my new enduro dirt bike around a field by our house, wiped out and broke my. Kept riding for a couple more hours, til it really hurt. No damage to bike.<br><br>Second bad one, endoed the EB last year on Fathers day. Had two of the kids out playing with me. No one was hurt, but the EB was in pretty bad shape. It diod come back down on it's wheels, so after we picked up all the junk off the ground, drove it out to where the tow truck could get it. Had to stop every 10 minutes or so and refill the radiator, from the hole the fan caused.<br><br><br>Why is it when you tell a woman not to do something, she has to show you how cool she is by doing it? I probably have more of those stories than bad 4x stories.<br>Joe

 

[fatcatmatt74]

4x4truck+woman+beer+florida mud-brain=moral of story. <br>total cost of "learning experience"<br>1 aluminum tool box :200.00 <br>1 back window (sliding) for 1991 dodge p/u :100.00 <br>1 tailgate for dodge pick up: 250.00 <br>1 windshield for dodge truck: insurance ;D<br>1 broken 4in double braid nylon snatch rope: free <br>1 complete fluids change on truck x3 =100.00 <br>1 detailing to remove florida from interior of wifes<br> new 4x4 truck. 100.00 <br>getting caught in woods with wifes truck, wifes best friend, and beer, because I had to call her to bring my truck to get hers out= PRICELESS <br> ANY QUESTIONS?????<br><br>

 

[ford67bronco]

[quote author=fatcatmatt74 link=board=5;threadid=9198;start=0#65907 date=1032315732]<br>4x4truck+woman+beer+florida mud-brain=moral of story. <br>total cost of "learning experience"<br>1 aluminum tool box :200.00 <br>1 back window (sliding) for 1991 dodge p/u :100.00 <br>1 tailgate for dodge pick up: 250.00 <br>1 windshield for dodge truck: insurance ;D<br>1 broken 4in double braid nylon snatch rope: free <br>1 complete fluids change on truck x3 =100.00 <br>1 detailing to remove florida from interior of wifes<br> new 4x4 truck. 100.00 <br>getting caught in woods with wifes truck, wifes best friend, and beer, because I had to call her to bring my truck to get hers out= PRICELESS <br> ANY QUESTIONS?????<br><br><br>[/quote]<br><br>Just one question....was it fun? ;D

 

[Hnrys69]

When i was in high school, we used to party up at a local lake called Boca. It was early in the winter season and rained the day before. So me in my 72 dodge Van with a 360 and posi rear 2 wheel drive. I thought this thing could go anywhere and proved it could many times. So going to the party spot in the trees we get lost. I was followin my buddy in his CJ that was beefy with SB chev and winch. So we somehow get off the path and have to turn around. He 4 wheels up a hill then slides down like 100feet sideways in the slick mud. Then gets turned around. So being the dumb ass i am, I decide to try to turn around doing alot of little turns and back up as to not get off the little path much.... This did not work. the backend went over the edge just a little and took the truck down the side of the hill about 50feet into a creek bed..... I was screwed lol. So we ditch the beer into the jeep and went to the party. Later that nite we decide to go and try to winch out my beast.... We had a little buzz and a few people, we could get this thing out np.... LOL not. Going back the jeep got stuck and had to winch his way into where my van was.... He finally gets to a decent spot and winches himself down the hill and into the creek with me lol. So a few hours later he winched himself back up to the road, then wedged his jeep against a tree and connected the cable to my van. <br><br>He got me up to the road finally. To make this long story short, He towed me back to the party and we got drunk ) <br><br>The next morning about 5 trucks got stuck tryin to get out because it rained again during the nite lol. My van decided to show its toughness and made it out past all the 4x4s stuck in the sludge. Moral of the story.... Hangover +v8 +posi track +2wd +60mph= going home early )

 

[brewdude]

[quote author=flint_knapper link=board=5;threadid=9198;start=0#65702 date=1032273888]<br>got stuck in a water hole that had a corps of a cow in it,<br>talk about a stinking mess!!!!!<br>[/quote]<br><br>I knew a guy when I was younger who was playing tag with a bunch of guys in a canal. One of his friends was running along the canal bank to get away and dove in. My friend said that the first half of him went into the water and his legs were still sticking out. He said he was kicking his legs and no one knew what was going on then the guys legs kind of flipped over and revealled a dead cow that this guy dived into. He pulled himself out of the cow swam to the bank and preceded to puke his guts out. My friend said it was the funnyest thing that he ever saw. I know it doesn't have to do with a bad 4X4 experiance but the dead cow reminded me of the story.

 

[thegreatjustino]

Brewdude, I think that's the best story so far on this thread. ;D

 

[6677ebman]

That is some funny (and gross) stuff! I was going to cook steaks tonight, but, I believe I'll wait on that!!