Carnage In A Mud Bath: The Broken Parts And Heartaches From Mudfest 2017!


Carnage In A Mud Bath: The Broken Parts And Heartaches From Mudfest 2017!

If you’re gonna play in the mud, things are gonna break. You’re working your engine hard, your running gear’s doing it’s best to not only find you some momentum but to plow tons of heavy-ass four-wheel-drive through slop, and your cooling system is working overtime, since you are taching out the engine while boldly moving inches forward, backwards, or even not at all. Accepting the fact that sooner or later, you will break parts while having a ball in the deep parts will make life much easier once you pop a U-joint, clean the teeth off of the ring gears, or worse, window the engine block. Just sigh, remember that these things happen, and start pleading your case for a tow out of the muck.

This footage is from Mudfest 2017 in Louisana, where there was plenty of truck-eating swampy muck to play in. A fun game to play while watching this is “What broke?” Did that U-joint actually pop, or was it something in the transfer case? Did the rear suspension let go, or did the driver just find a really deep dip? Or, in the case of the “Hoenado”…what the hell caught fire?


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