Tire Chains Specifically for Mud

[Choupique]

steer with the throttle

We always giggle at ourselves for being ridiculous when we're white knuckling it up the NFS road chained up in our four wheel drive diesel truck at 3 miles per hour and some local loony toon comes blasting by us in a clapped out 2 wheel drive nissan frontier just absolutely gassing on it going up the swtichback.

 

[Steve300xcw]

We always giggle at ourselves for being ridiculous when we're white knuckling it up the NFS road chained up in our four wheel drive diesel truck at 3 miles per hour and some local loony toon comes blasting by us in a clapped out 2 wheel drive nissan frontier just absolutely gassing on it going up the swtichback.

Like this?

Depending on the day most the trucks were running chains well before they got to the job. Ran outta room to put snow, so now everybody is pissed and getting stuck with very few pull outs. And here comes this stupid purple car with the baldest tires you ever saw and a couple of kids who are too dumb to know what road closed means They did pretty good considering what they were working with. I wouldnt have tried that. Had to drag those dorks for a ways before we had a spot to get them turned around

 

[Choupique]

Oh no, the ones I'm talking about seem to never get stuck.

My comment was mostly poking fun at us flat land folk stressing out over road conditions while the locals are just blasting up and down the mountain in far less capable vehicles.

 

[fmyth]

Are you guys running spacers on front to make clearance? I've only run them on the rear, which is actually not ideal.

Unfortunately there isn't much info out there on what mods people have done since running chains in the mud is kind of niche and 99% of trucks stay on pavement. And all the modern IFS trucks have limited clearance.

I'm running 1" hub centric spacers on my 2019 Ram 1500 Rebel. With the spacers I can run chains on all 4 wheels and have had no problems. Each truck is different. This may or may not work for your specific make/model truck.

 

[def90]

Whoa ok, two very different responses. To clarify further, the Shale that I drive on doesn't typically strand you in deep mud so much as you just won't have traction once it's wet and your tread is packed full. Try to go forward and you mostly just slide, not dig down. These are mostly roads that when dry, rarely require 4WD, so not very technical or with deep puddles or bogs, just bad when wet.

Yeah, some of the mud we get here in Colorado is slicker than snot, it's not about getting buried because it's not even deep in the first place, it's literally slicker than driving on bare ice. I've been driving on two tracks before in my Wrangler and have done a 360 on the stuff. Not much you can do but hold on to the wheel.