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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 08:40 AM
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What would be the best ideal mudding 4 door jeep. Like for instance what are some of the parts you would use to make a daily driver and a awesome mudder.
How much lift would you do?
What tires?
What size tires?
What gears?
And so on and so on

keep in mind this is a daily driverbut i still want a good mudding jeep
Post pictures if you have any

Thanks leski
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 08:46 AM
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The type of mud and depth are the determining factors..... If we're talking down south clay based mud that's 2ft thick in a swamp the JK is gunna take it pretty hard.

Snorkel is a must for any wet mud/swamping

For any mud a wide tire w/heavy aggressive tread that is also light weight is ideal. (yes those things seem like an oxymoron) I run 4" of lift all suspension based, no pucks and I haven't gotten stuck yet. Generally I can run through 1.5ft of solid mud without the fear of getting bogged down.

Also how you drive is pretty important, when getting stuck crank the wheel from side to side and shimmy-out.
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 08:50 AM
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well i live in texas so there are no swamps or anything like that. The most mud i will be in is like 2 feet thats it.
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 10:42 AM
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The wider tires definitely look better. A wide tire will have the ability to "float" through the mud, but if you want something that's going to cut through the mud and get to solid ground, you can't beat a narrow super swamper TSL bogger.

Nitto mud grapplers are probably the best-performing "wide" mud tire.



Invest in a winch, recovery gear, and a snorkel!

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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 11:36 AM
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My Toyo MT's do a good job here in Oregon but they are HEAVY and there's always trees to winch to Our mud is generally more watery than heavy swamp mud so it's not much of an issue.
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 12:27 PM
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4" lift
35" super swampers
5.38 gears so you can run it in 4 hi with the rear locker on (bypass of some sort for locker)
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