Anyone ever get their CTD Stuck in mud?

[rjohnson916]

Anybody ever get there truck stuck in mud? I was at a clients house earlier in the week for business. Anyhow this guy lives on a ranch, long gravel driveway that turns into a grass field as it approaches the home. Anyhow it had been raining like crazy all week and weekend and that day, after I settled business, as it was dark. I told the guy to spot for me as I backed down his driveway as I could not see, no lighting in the yard. Anyhow the guy hollers back “Hey just make a U-turn in my yard, I always do anyway” guy drives a Nissan Sentra. Keep in mind at this point I assumed the gravel circled around like a driveway and wasn’t grass. I proceeded to crank the wheel and proceed forward to make a U-turn in the flat as a board yard. I get about ½ way and I feel the rear wheels slip a bit? I then though what? This should be no big deal.... then the truck would not go forward anymore, so I grab for 4-High range and proceed to give her some fuel, no movement forward. I stopped and slipped’er into 4-Low Range and the front end just sank about a foot into the grass like quicksand. I tried reverse and then the truck sat helpless in this poor guys yard up to the frame in water-soaked wet grass. Long and short, it took my dad’s 2006 Toyota 4Runner V8 and an Isuzu Rodeo pulling in tandem, with a hole lot of digging for about 2 hours to free my stuck truck. I was really embarrassed and felt like my truck let me down. I wish I had a picture of the yard just to Give you all an idea. To add insult to injury, my dad drove around me, as this was the only access to the front of my truck, and he had no problem, or no spinning in the 4Runner. But my 4x4 Dodge was an instant stuck duck. Also I’m really disappointed with our 4x4 setup. I know the front differential is only an “Open” type differential, and the rear is supposed to be “Limited-Slip” but even applying a little parking brake action, I could only get one wheel up front to spin and one wheel out back, really lame but true.


the main think that ticked me off was that I have been four-wheeling for years, and can understand when your out purposely screwing around or muddin... But 4wd should help you when you get in a situation by accident, especially in a flat grass yard. I know I should have probably been in 4-High range from the get-go, but I did not know I was in grass and my trucks oem insurance policy failed me in a very embarrassing way.



-Ryan