M1009 Snowzilla edition

[WatchDawg]

First snowfall for my CUCV, did amazing, I've never owned a vehicle that could tackle 3 ft of snow...and have no issues. Able to get to and from work, pull out other stuck 2wd people who shouldn't have been on the road.

some pictures

http://imgur.com/a/ldSac


and a video of all 3 days of the snowfall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nuGgbi6hw0

 

[Bethelfire]

 

[M1008BOV]

Very cool!

 

[Hasdrubal]

Well I watched the vid, waiting for the 3 feet of snow. How did you measure that? I didn't see anything near that. Once the diff and axle starts dragging in the snow..its game over.

 

[WatchDawg]

going off measurments by offical sources..26.5 ish ..count in snow drifts, and plow spots +/- 10 giving me the benefit of the doubt...at the highest was 3ft...

http://www.weather.gov/lwx/pnsmap?type=snow

it was all powder for the most part and just kept going and didn't stop to make sure i didn't lose momentum

I did get stuck once, when it was too high, but the winch pulled me free

 

[paraclete comes]

We plow with our m1009 it's amazing. Best plow vehicle on the mountain. Everyone else runs pickups with poor turning radius, reappearance and not geared as well. We 're geared to 4.10's and it's been AMAZING! I drive all over the mountains with it on stuff that makes my wife close her eyes.

I exploded my rear diff though so I upgraded to a full float 14 bolt. Will do a Dana 60 up front when time and money allow. Lost some clearance on that so there goes that. Shaving the 14 bolt seems like to much money for me.

Anyway great plow trucks, consider some ballast in the rear if you plow with her. I think the only thing the did wrong on these beautiful old trucks is gearing (3.0 and axles (should have done Dana 60 and 14 bolt full floaters). The 208 cases are nice but a twin stick 205 is robust and sexy.

Great photos and glad your giving the old girl some good use.