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- Indian Falls, NY
- slashfan7964
It's actually pretty involving. Running low tire pressures, sometimes with water in the tires to help them float. Maintaining traction in almost 0 traction conditions...it's actually better to sling the mud around because it cleans the treads out letting them grip again. The need for high horsepower and torque to move a heavy vehicle through very stressful situations., beefed up suspensions and strangthed chassis...there's a ton that goes into it. Mudding is probably the hardest thing you can do to a vehicle. Its a sign of strength in the vehicle. You'll see a lot of old trucks doing it more often because they had very sturdy underpinnings. It's nothing to see 600-1000hp V8's running around in these things. Hell I've even seen them with 1500+, naturally aspirated. The engines are anywhere from stock to a mild build, to nowehere near stock. People lift them stupid heigh because they need the ground clearance...some of the pits these trucks go through are up to 8-9 feet deep of extremely thick mud. They also drag race and what not. It's just fun to do. Basically, if you make it through one of those pits, you've got a vehicle that can basically go anywhere and do anything you throw at it.
Plus, it's just fun to get out there and do donuts, sling mud around and make it through seemingly impassable sections of land.
