You'll find that if you air your tires down to about 14 psi, you can climb
most anything in the sand. Get a air tank to air back up before you hit the
road, and you'll be airing down all the time & airing up isn't a chore.
Sam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of J. Courtenay Brandon
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 11:59 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: driving sand dunes, plus hot weather
>
>
>
> Spent a few hours this past weekend at Pismo Beach,
> officially the Oceano Dunes SVRA, in Southern
> California. Never having driven on sand before I was
> worried about getting stuck as I had no buddy along to
> yank me out.
>
> The truck amazed me. I drove the hard sand to the
> south end of the beach passing a few pickups stuck
> along the way. The only vehicles I saw up high in the
> dunes were bikes and buggies. Figured I wasn't going
> up there with them. Just before I turned around I saw
> a stock full-size pickup come down out of the sand so
> I headed up there. Over the next couple of hours I got
> farther and farther into the dunes. Eventually I drove
> up to the top of the highest one I could find. I did
> avoid the bowls and steepest slopes. But I never had
> any traction problems at all.
>
> This is in a stock 2000 Club Cab 4x4 with a full-time
> transfer case, limited slip, and 31-inch Wranglers. I
> never even locked in the center diff.
>
> I'm interested in hearing about any other experiences
> with our trucks on sand dunes.
>
>
> Crossing the Tehachapis yesterday was another
> gratifying experience. It was 100 degrees down in LA
> County and 95 up on top of the Grapevine. I drove
> between 70 and 75 mph the whole way with the air
> conditioning on "max". The temperature gauge never got
> over 210 degrees. This is on a 5000-pound truck with
> an automatic transmission. I'm very glad I got the
> heavy duty cooling package.
>
> Can't say enough about how great this pickup is :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> -J.
>
>
>
>
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