Don't Yank A Truck Out Of The Mud Like This

[jhammel85]

http://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/wa...pull-a-jeep-out-of-the-mud-we-have-ever-seen/

Time for an axle swap! (2 mins in gets you to the good stuff)

 

[Mark_88]

Think I've seen that one before...still makes me cringe...lol

I'm surprised they didn't try digging out the front end before pulling on it...I would have tried at least...seemed like he mud was hard enough to shovel...

 

[jhammel85]

That's what I thought too. It's a shame - and a bad day for that guy....I'd be so mad..

 

[bigmark303]

And that's why tow points are the most important part of any Jeep build. An axle case is not a tow point.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Those three words "thats not good" tells it all.

 

[Sweet-85']

Bad day!

 

[ab_slack]

Damn that was painful. No finesse.

Didn't look to me like they grabbed the axle case, seemed it was off the front part of frame and that the wheel was just dug down too far into the hole.

I agree it looked solid enough to dig. Both right wheels had dug really deep holes and weren't moving. I guess the person spun tires lots to get holes that deep.

The leverage just looked all wrong as applied. Maybe there weren't good options. Just made me cringe.

 

[jhammel85]

Anyone ever been stuck in dredge mud? That's what it looks like and that stuff is horrible.

 

[rangeron33s]

Got a place here in missouri called sandy slu. Its sandy riverbottom mud that never ends. Got 4 trucks stuck one night each one was trying to pull out another. Ended up getting them out with a chain of a dodge ram and an f150. Then the bronco the dodge and the f150 all hooked together so on and so fourth. Ended up being ther for 26 hours. The beer helped out though the next weekend a f250 got stuck and it took em a week to get it out. A tractor a duece and the frame getting stretched 2 foot later it finaly got out. Nobody has returned since. From what I hear though several rangers have been in and out without getting stuck

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[jhammel85]

Sounds alot like "dredge mud". Looks dry and cracked but once you get in it, you're stuck!

 

[LilGreen]

Yup gonna go and weld my d rings on today hahahah

 

[cammeddrz]

RE.......POST

this has been posted several times here (as well as everywhere else)

this is why a rig needs a frame, and why the XJ is pointless, there is no frame under it

And that's why tow points are the most important part of any Jeep build. An axle case is not a tow point.

where do you suggest the tow point to have been attached? there is no frame under an XJ, it is uni-body like a Honda civic. had they attached anywhere other than the diff, (which only leaves the body) the end result would have been the same, the body, and axle would have ripped apart from each-other, the diff would have just stayed stuck in the mud

honestly, with an XJ, having no frame, it's not as crazy as everyone thinks to attach to the only solid steel part of the truck, which is the axle

it is crazy however to wheel an XJ in the first place, and it was likewise crazy of Jeep to put a solid axle under a unibody rig, thus tricking the feeble-minded into thinking it is an off-road rig

 

[bigmark303]

where do you suggest the tow point to have been attached? there is no frame under an XJ, it is uni-body like a Honda civic. had they attached anywhere other than the diff, (which only leaves the body) the end result would have been the same, the body, and axle would have ripped apart from each-other, the diff would have just stayed stuck in the mud

Front and rear end of an XJ has partial frame rails as any unibody construction. That's why most XJs have a receiver mounted to those partial frame rails front and rear. Lot stronger of a tow point than pulling on the axle case itself. Its only held on by control arms bolted to sheet metal.

 

[Mark_88]

You could weld a frame (of sorts) from end to end onto the existing unibody...might be a bit tricky and require several pieces...and some good mod skills...but I'm sure it could be done.

Sort of like a couple of runners underneath from end to end so that when you yank on the front (or back) it actually pulls all the length of the pseudo frame...

The real question is...Is it worth it? LOL...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

There are ways to do towpoints, the same as anything else.

If you pull the subframe apart you would probably tweak or pull apart a regular frame in the same condition too.

Go to the subframe, pulling off axles is stupid and you deserve whatever carnage you get.