mild off road, safer with or without running boards?

[RavenTai]

"The tires (Michelin LTX') "

"It has been raining here almost every day for a month, and will be the same this weekend, GA red clay turns into deep gooey snot in these conditions "

If both the above are true, you won't make it 50 yards, regardless of running boards. I was embaressed more than once a couple of years ago, trying to go down a wet dirt road with the Mich LTX. Might as well have drag strip smoothies on.

DRTDuck hit the nail on the head. Georgia clay and Michelin LTX.... You'll go no where on any incline if it is soggy. Let us know how it goes.
Cheers,
Sean

Hmm I was assuming I could make it because a Tacoma with only a rear locker made it but that was earlier this year, going to bring a come-a-long (poor man’s winch) just in case

only takes a few minutes to yank them off. Only excuse not to is being lazy and you know what that gets you

Not lazy, I would be glad to take them off if it is best, but I think they may be right for this situation for the reasons Gumby and a few others mentioned

That should be part of a campaign for selling sliders ...

A pic of Bruce Lee ... and a bubble with his quote from Enter the Dragon ..

"Donnnnnn't destroy your body !!' - get sliders !"

Tyler

LOL

Defiantly going to get sliders, probably before lift and tires and bumpers, If I can come up with a design a good friend of mine (excellent fabricator) can help me make them

 

[CDN_Cruiser]

Raven:

I haven't fully puilled it off - just pealed the bottom up and pulledit partially from where it sits under the side trim pieces - so not entirely sure what's on top (I also stopped when I priced the cost of the step pieces and the need for new end caps). I want to pull it to access the bolts for a hitch though.

Have a great trip!

Cheers, Hugh

 

[GXO]

LTXs will suck offroad Raven.

I run some BJ's Uniroyal AWTs 265/75R16s as my DD tires and have wheeled on them more than once because I was too cheap to buy my TruXus MTs yet.

I am still in shock at how well they did for an AT tire. I went over Anderson Creek, wheeled at Allatoona, and did the outlet mall secret trails on that guy's land and never had an issue with traction.

 

[Gumby]

With a 3FE I don't know you could have a problem with spinning the tires, Dan.

 

[mabrodis]

Take the steps off...take the steps off...take the steps off!

I did just that on a '95 80 I had, figured I wasn't 'really' wheeling, but I must have just brushed something, never felt it, never noticed it, got home and the step has a slight bend in it...argh. I was replacing them anyway, but good steps you can sell/give away, bent ones are junk.

On my LX I pulled them off before the vehicle even touched a dirtroad. It's amazing how much more clearance you have with them off. If you are going on rocky stuff and a rock might smash your body hard, then maybe leave them on but expext them to look like shizat when you're done and you might have ALOT more trouble getting them off then...

As for wheeling, the LTXs are great, you can spin them at like 40mph and they'll never throw mud, no traction = no mud thrown! Biggest thing to be careful with the LTXs IMO is they just slide all over. I had some mostly worn ones on this mud/snow trail, I was sliding the whole time, I've never been so uncomfortable in my life offroad, and I've been on some scary stuff!

Tacomas rock BTW, so just cause he made it with a rear locker don't just assume you can make it. Remember the Taco is alot lighter than your's, with probably alot better power-to-weight ratio.

Either way have fun, give it hell!

 

[GXO]

With a 3FE I don't know you could have a problem with spinning the tires, Dan.

Careful, I will be in Chicago on Tuesday!

 

[landtoy80]

Get the Slee Slider Running Boards (if he has any left). I put them on when I went to CO and did some LITE 4Xing on the trails the national froest.
On Birdseye Gulch http://soderblom.net/bronco/trails/birdseye/body.html I hit the slider running boards hard. Had I had the OEM boards on there would of been damage.
Even in LITE trails there could be something hidding in the mud that you can't see. SPEND YOUR $$$$