Re-Thinking my Soft Sand Strategy after getting mega stuck....

quite positive I'm a bit heavier than you, never had a problem with sand as long as I air down.
with my weight, I'm usually running 14/24psi frt/rr for general offroad, but if I'm on deep sand or dunes, I start around 10/15 and am willing to go down to single digits as needed.

 

where did you get that wind fairing?

 

I am not a huge fan of traction control, etc in general but used my MTS in the sand recently and was very impressed by how well it worked and how unobtrusive it was.

I feel like most of the recommendations against 4lo in the sand are based on vehicles geared lower than ours. With stock sized tires and gearing you can get up to 40 in 4lo which is plenty for most situations. Just stay on the gas and there should be no problems. The ability to use MTS makes it even more worthwhile and it should help avoid situations where you dig 1 tire in.

Its important to understand what is happening in those crawl control getting out of sand videos. When you spin a tire it digs sand out of the bottom of the hole and flings it out the back. But if you move the tire slow enough there isn't enough momentum to throw it out the back so the tires end up moving sand from in front of the tire to below it and it actually fills in the hole allowing the truck to eventually move forward. It doesn't work in all conditions but seems to work rather well atleast some of the time. Make sure to use the slowest crawl control setting.

You actually don't need crawl control to do this. Put the truck in 4lo in 1st gear and give it a very light throttle application and you can achieve similar results. Turning your locker on and turning your steering wheel side to side so the front tires can grip on the sides of the hole also helps. If you don't have a rear locker light application of the e-brake can keep power going to both rear wheels but dont over do it.

The main thing in the sand seems to be avoid using your brakes. You always want to plan ahead and drift to slow down and stop.

 

Designed it myself and then had xometry/sendcutsend cut, bend, anodize it for me. Then I bolted it together