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"The only thing 4 wheel dive is good for is getting you stuck in a more inaccessible place." My father.
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My Dad said something very similar last September. We were about 10 miles from the nearest civilization taking my parents sight seeing when I decided to drive across some water that I had just been through two weeks earlier and was only about 2' deep. I knew something looked a little different. /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif Well, it'd gotten a little over 4' deep and there was now a current. When I dropped into the water it went up the hood. I kept going. I didn't even have time to turn off the electric fans. Fighting the current was nearly impossible so I headed across the stream (around 80') instead of going diaganol because I knew it was about 8" more shallow over there. I had to keep the momentum up to keep the wave going so I didn't get a wet distributor and suck water in the intake. It required me to run into a stump and a couple logs. I made it.
When we got to the other side my Mom jumped out of the truck, lit up a cigarette, and started pacing. My Dad got out, lit up a cigarette, and told me that it was a good thing he didn't forget his blood pressure medicine. I popped the hood, pulled the sticks off the headers and leaves off the intake, and let the truck idle for a while.
I said, "So, want to head back across or find an alternate path?"
My Dad said, "There's no way in hell we're going back across there. I don't even like the idea you want us to go down a trail that you haven't been down in a long time by ourselves in the middle of nowhere. I swear, kid-o, the only reason we put the lift and lockers in this truck is so you could give me a heart-attack and get us stuck in an unbelievably inaccessible spot".
