I went riding my dirt bike today with a group of guys. We parked in a grassy area. It rained for a about 15 minutes and made the grassy area like slippery snot. I was able to get 2 of the guys out of there but the I couldn't get enough traction to get the big ones out. Luckily, it was the property pf one of the guys we ride with and he got out his old IH tractor and it took care of business without an issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCEaBI-LMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSA8BVnM5Og www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZdpWXna0JA www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYob01zICgg www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhf62KC-x8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKIe8dpwQk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jinl-dp-3hQ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L6cNr1q0Ck
Wet grass can be slippery. Remember camping on grass on just a slight slope with the 72 Gran Torino wagon and a small RV trailer. Had a heck of a time with the equalizer bars unhooked getting out.
Just too cool watching your wagon drag stuff out of the mud, thanks for sharing Eagle. Fannie is right looks like fun day in the woods.
It was some slimy clay and it's also a slight hill which didn't help. I don't get on FB at all anymore.
Who needs an SUV? Could take my Olds wagon and sit it on a Chevy / GMC truck or SUV frame and have a four wheel drive nine passenger automobile, though I'm not sure how the eight other people in the car would take to me taking the "Exceptionally scenic" route Love those old AMC's man, it's like they knew ahead of time what was coming. Never seen one lifted like that though, most of the ones I see are pretty much stock height.
You don't have to go through all the extra work of swapping frames. Since your Olds has a full frame, you can "easily" add some leaf springs or a coil spring setup and a front axle. Install a 4x4 transmission and modify the floor to fit a transfer case and you're done. Easy as pie.
I know it's that easy, though the frame swap is what a lot of people do. I also know I can swap any 80's Chevy truck spring under the back of my car, 'cause it has a set of Chevy three quarter ton springs. Why, you might ask, would it have those springs? Because we have a 16 foot trailer we pull once a year over a mountain, with air shocks in the rear, and with the air shocks inflated, the stock springs simply fell off the car in the driveway. I cracked up, my father, he was cussing all the way to the junkyard. Anyway, I will likely turn a B body 80's wagon into a four wheel drive monster some day, just for laughs. It will have to function on and off the road, but mostly it'll be to embarrass the local lifted SUV / truck owners. I have a local junkyard I could get every part from, including the wagon its self. I think seeing a B body wagon lifted like your AMC would be quite amusing, and quite terrifying to anyone driving a Miata. Though it would require a bumper sticker saying "Was that a Miata or a speedbump?"
Looks like fun 4 wheelin! You guys need some mud terrains, or super swampers... granted you can't see too clearly, but it looks like everyone packed their treads in no time, and then you basically have slicks!
I've got MT's on mine. It's a clay mud that is very dense and sticky. Once it gets in in lugs, it does turn into a slick. Even the knobby dirt bike tires were useless when the rain hit.
Sounds like the dirt at the nearby junkyard, if it's raining, forget it, they don't even take the big machinery up there, the hillside will just swallow it. That stuff is evil but hilariously fun to try to drive on when you don't mind getting stuck.
