It takes ALOT of weight to tame my Dakota. The best thing I've used so far for
winter weight is a snowmobile. 400# and if you get stuck you've got alternate
transportation...
Not real practical to keep in there though and its no good for gas mileage, the
normal disappointing 14mpg goes to around 10.
Better to just slip 'er into 4wd when its bad out. I think a manual
transmission would be better, or the v6 ahead of the auto. When the v8 gives up
if the body is still worth anything I might investigate a 4BT swap, less HP but
way more torque.
Your dad apparently never went offroad much. My camp is a 4wd manditory place
for most of the year. 2wd vehicles are too low generally, although I bet I
could take a 240D in there if it had good tires. I walked my '83 240D into some
pretty surprising places.
>From about April when the snow melts until late june our camp road will be
>pretty sloppy although this year I'm going to cut some new drainage. Hopefully
>it'll just drain the water and not take all the raod with it too...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:50:40 -0400
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Simple solution.........Throw some sand bags in the back. No more
light
rear end. Grew up driving 2wd Chevy trucks. My Dad didn't believe
there
was any need for a 4WD truck. I'll take a RWD anything with a little
weight
in the rear and good snow tires over a FrontWD of any sort. That's
just my
preference though.....
Mike
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I belive you, people hit sand and get stupid fast...
Apparently you only go sensible places. I've been lots of places a 2wd would
never get to...
Although with a differntial locker a 2wd will go lots of places an unlocked 4wd
will not.
Thats part of my plan when I build a Jeep station wagon. 4bt under the hood,
airlockers in the diffs, 31" tires so it doesn't look jacked and goofy.
-Curt
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Back in the 50s on the coast of NC, we would use old 2WD Fords and
Chevys to drag the 4WD Jeeps out of the sand on the beach. I made my
spending money that way. I have NEVER had a need for a 4WD yet, and I
have been driving for 50 years.
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Do you have any problems when they get some scratches on them?
I know they have the same music recorded several times so the over-sampling
works but when using software on CD that gets scratched they sometimes stop
working.
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> Heck, I still have cassette tapes I bought in the 80's and 8 tracks my mom
> bought in the 70's, oh, and a few old reeel to reel tapes that still play
> just fine.
> I think CD's will last much longer than that.
>
> Mike
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>>> I wonder if CDs and DVDs will still work when they're 20+ years old?
>>
>> Well, considering that the CD was introduced circa 1983 and I bought
>> a Kyocera player and some discs within about a year and that they
>> (player included!) still work...
>>
>> I trust aluminum-plated pressed polycarbonate far more than I
>> trust tape in terms of holding up. I am less sanguine about
>> the _recordable_ CD/DVD media, but I could be wrong.
>>
>> -- Jim
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