I wheel like a **** dude, I hit as many trails and mud pits as I can in my stock tire, stock height Blazers. Heck, I've lived on a dirt road my entire life so there goes your theory of my "wheeling" being driving down a dirt road. I wheel and I wheel well thank you very much,there's a certain trail around here owned by a friend of mine that has claimed many a car by way of rollover that I've traversed dozens of times without mishap. Well besides getting stuck of course, ya tend to get high sided a lot in a stock Blazer.

I've been buried in mud up to the hood and in straight water for that matter too, I have a couple pics of my muddy cars on my Myspace, that'll have to do.


That's my old 89 High Country after a few minutes in a mud pit.


And there's my 92 Blazer at the beginning of a very, very muddy day. That's the plateau of the trail I mentioned before, my friend inherited 300+ acres of field/woods and as soon as rain touches it it's mud central.


I know this picture is pretty dark but that's my Blazer hiding underneath a few inches of mud. Only thing I cleaned off was the headlights.


A lot of people probably consider that off roading, that's just me being bored climbing a rock in my driveway.

When it comes down to it, I live to offroad, I can't wait til winter comes, I love snow driving.

 

KFC, I can see where you're coming from now. In mud, with less agressive tires, 4lo isn't going to do much more for you than 4 hi will, as your tires are just going to spin and spin without grabbing onto anything. When you can actually gain traction with a tire that's suited for the conditions, you'll see a world of difference between 4hi and 4lo. Without traction, you might as well be in 2wd, 'cus it's just momentum that's carrying you through things.

 

I've done a little bit of wheelin' round the country in my current ZR2 Blazer:

http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Blazer%20pics/

Everything you see in these four wheeling pics, required the use of low range.

Okay, I'm done here.

 

My bad Kyle, I will try my best to stay out of these types of things from now on. Sorry, ifmy commentticked anyone off. I apologize.

 

I love this thread.

I can see both sides.
I wheel with guys who are always in 4lo and swear by it. I myself wheel in 4hi on the same terrain. Only time I drop into 4lo is for really steep hills, up or down, and anytime I have to climb somthing slowely. Slowing everything down with gears is a great way to gain traction in those conditions.

I prefer 4hifor sand and mud,tire speed. I keep the tire speed up to clean the tires in the mud, and 4lo in the sand only causes you to dig to China.

I got a few wheeling pics somewhere.
I tend to wheel at Cliffs Insane Terrain, or the Badlands. One of these days I want to make it down to RockPort.

Great pics posted above.

 

see jigg, i refuse to do many hills... I mostly run old strip mines with deep mud holes...... I understand 4lo for the hills and stuff.. 4hi would probably spin the tires too much..lol if you have ever been on a strip mine, they are mostly flat with some hellaciously deep mudholes. I've had the truck in mud and water up to the headlights and remained in 4hi, but it was almost completely level ground. I don't wheel hard, I technically go mudding. or at least thats what we call it... flat ground + plus deep mud holes = happy me!!I will get some pics of the places I go... I think most of you would enjoy a good old fashioned kentucky strip mine....lol

muslhed, that wall climbing pic is awesome...lol keep em coming.
To all:
sorry if I got out of hand... I don't remember if I did or not, but if so... my bad..

 

muslhed those pics totally kick azz!!! I love that wall climb!!

is that with stock suspension? damn i want a ZR2 [:-]

I've NEVER even tried out my 4lo, can you still rev the engine just as high? I shoulda tried that when i got stuck in the 3 feet of snow