Do you put weight in back of your truck?

4X4, 120lbs. sand, and a bucket of ashes. The ashes work better than sand on ice.

 

For me, extra weight in the bed only increased stopping distances and decreased fuel economy.

I use dedicated snow tires, front and rear. Long experience in snow/cold/ice has taught me to be light with my throttle foot, starting in second if conditions are silly. Simply knowing how to drive often makes me the fastest vehicle moving. I take perverse pleasure passing Porsche SUVs, stupidly still on their summer tires!

My old Land Cruisers ('77 FJ-40, '86 RJ-70, '88 HJ-65) were the best! Hubs were locked if snow covered the roads and 4WD engaged at the first hint that the rear tires might be over-torqued. Tire noise suddenly ceasing was a clue that we were now on ice -- 4WD engaged immediately!

 

This will be my first winter with this truck so I'll be puttin some weight in the back. Spiecialy living in MA. The people here drive like they own the road, no reguard for anyone or anything.

 

Same here. I was a Wrangler owner for the past 10 years. I will try the sand.

 

Not that I have an issue with ice, but I never knew about using ashes.


think this is enough weight to keep me from sliding around..??

 

Nope, not much snow or ice on the Texas Gulf Coast

 

Bigger the tires the more crappy your truck will be in snow. I put studded 245 winter tires on plus i got sand bags just in case i want to use it.

 

So does tigerfan...

 

Just got the truck and found the forums. I live in VA so the winters are not that bad. I do travel to PA for family visits and skiing. I have used the snow shoveled off the driveway in my fathers truck and that worked well. I like the fact that when the weather clears the weight melts off clean.

 

That's the main reason I keep the sand back there. I've got a cap on the back that helps weight the wheels, but I still put 2 bags of sand in there, just in case I need some extra traction or whatever. Doesn't hurt anything, right?

 

I carry anywhere from 500-1000 pounds of horseshoeing equipment in the back of my truck at any given time. Not intended to provide more traction in heavy snow, but every little bit helps.

 

Last winter I carried 150lbs of salt (in a sealed bag of course) over the rear axle (06 prerunner) and the truck stuck to the road.

The year before I had nada in the back and slid all over the damn place -- nearly killed myself on one occasion...

It doesn't hurt ot have it back there... just in case.

 

I just let my wife ride back there.

 

For your sake I hope she's not reading this forum!

 

meh.... She wants a divorce anyway.

 

pics or it didn't happen

 

No, but the weight I do have is from my Gaylords bedcover and my big ass hockey bad. LOL!

 

What kind of speed can I Safely travel at without concern for damaging 4WD components? I do a shit ton of highway driving and I was thinking just leave it in 4WD so it's there when I need it...
To the earlier post about placing weight as far back as possible, it's fairly simple physics my friend, the further you are from the point of contact, the bigger the cantilever. This equals a whole bunch of bad ideas, you want that weight as close as possible to being on the vertical axis on the point of contact, in an ideal world, that weight would be strapped to right to the rear end, either side of the diff...

 

yup I have half a dozen or so sand bags. I only have a little 2x4 sr5 at the moment and I'm working in Northern Alberta, Canada. Hell, it's -30 celcius today (not sure what that would be in F, but its very cold and icy!)