wouldn't even have gotten muddy :P Only kidding, I sure woulda tried though mud is very hard to judge.

How's the truck running, does the power ever leave you wanting more? I can't imagine so!

 

The truck has been running great, especially with the 4.56 gears. I threw a belt a couple of weeks ago doing a quick 180 turn, and she still knocks on the higher RPM's because of our bad gas, but I'm going to try that Torco stuff and see if it works. I plan to get some video's when I get back home of some burnouts and playing around. We finally got closed and moved into the house, bent over for Uncle Sam, and when I get some spending cash, I plan to move on from the truck and start building up a mustang. I've been doing some searching, but I think I'll pick up a used one with 5-10K miles, have it shipped to somebody like Whipple or JDM and have them build it up for me. I'd like to get around 500 horses at the wheels. I'm satisfied with the power as the truck sits now, but worried something is going to break after reading through all the recent horror threads. Still hasn't kept me from hammering on it though.


Here's one more shot of the F150. I can't get the Dodge picture and one of the other F150's pictures to come up, I'm getting a red X on them. This shows a little different angle on the F150 though. This tundra is some nasty stuff to get stuck in.

 

heres another good link, I see the truck driving on base all the time. I guess no damage

http://newsminer.com/2007/04/05/6316/

 

Alot of folks were speculating that both those trucks would have damage to the drivetrain components being that they were submerged for several months until freeze up, then any water that did get in would of cracked seals and anything else it expanded on.

I'm real curious to see what comes of this, and what the damage to the terrain looks like when break up gets here. They are probably more susceptable to vandalism now that they are in town, they pissed a bunch of folks off with their antics up here.

 

I bet they pissed alot of people off. I know in my traveling in Colorado up in Castle Lakes there are places that if you get off the trails and on to the forbidden terrain and get caught that it can cost you up to $10,000. Some of the terrain takes thousands of years to regrow.

 

I'm wondering if this will stem some sort of fine for going off road. They should of had something in place to help deter this from happening. It's not the first time, and if they don't do anything about this case, they will set a presedent. They don't even allow snowmachines in the winter, and you can see from the pictures how much snow is on the ground. We actually don't get a ton of snow, those are mainly drifts that are covering the trucks.

 

What I can't believe is how they didn't work to get them out before all the snow got there! That has to compound the stupidity at least 100 times.

Looking at the initial pictures of the Ford, why the heck did he drive straight into the mud? It looks like hard ground all around him and that one little section of mud.

What a group of idiots.

There is no way those trucks were able to drive away after staying out there through the winter.

Duke

 

They had to tow them back to town, but apparantly they were able to get them back on the road fairly quickly.

That mud wasn't there before the truck tore it up. The terrain was the same as everything you see in the background, just a little more wet. This is the true tundra, it is crap to walk on, obviously dangerous to drive on, and once damaged, will always show the marks. Only a few feet thick of this tundra gets thawed out through the summer, the rest is permafrost, which is why there are no trees.

The airforce troops didn't make very good efforts to get the trucks out before freeze up. They made a total of 4 attempts to get them out, 2 before freeze up and 2 after. The first freeze up attempt to get them out was called off due to most of the guys getting sick due to the fumes in the tent.

These are definately not the brightest group of people, and it is unfortunate that they represent our airforce.