Worst stuck stories and pictures

[got556]

went out to the lake heading back to my favorite spot and you have to cross a little bit of the lake to get there and i have never seen it more then a foot deep so i walk out a few feet to make sure it didnt drop off....guess i didnt walk out far enough. motor shut off cab filled with water horn started going off and my lights turned on. took 2 trucks to pull me out once we got it out had to pull all the plugs and crank the motor over to get all that water out of the cylinders, then we just left my runner there for the next 3 hours while we continued to our spot then came back put the plugs in and drove it home started up fine ran a little sluggish while it steam cleaned the motor about 3 miles down the road went back to driving normal. changed all fluids no water in the oil i was surprised and she runs fine now. "knock on wood"

Holy crap. If that isn't a testament to durability of Yotas I don't know what is. And that Land Cruiser story/link is cool as hell.

 

[ToyoTech]

a while back when i just got into 4 wheeling. drove into an area that quickly turned into a trap. everything looked all good and was just exploring. out of no where the front end just drops. could go forward. tired reverse and nothing. no lockers or winch or another vehicle. just a shovel and nature. was pretty far off the main road and no one would find us. as you can kinda see, water ran right where i drove over so it was pretty hollow below the area i was driving on. with some digging and rocks around us, we did get out. backed out of the hole and noticed the rear started to sink. quickly reversed even more and got the heck out lol

you can see the other half of the tire in the tunnel and it was pretty hollow under that entire area. could have sank the entire runner lol

 

[GonOvr]

Well that's a toss up.

1. There was a good size log on this hole that stopped me dead in my tracks. I then began to dig holes to this.

2. I decided to take a short cut route to another trail and found out why people don't use the short cut during the snow season. It got real deep, real quick. :frisky:

 

[SJC]

Mooore i want more stories.

 

[4runnertank]

This was back when I had 33's and no locker. But I don't think it would have made a difference haha. The mud was like penut butter thick!

 

[VA4runnerchic]

bump!
more more more!!! :hungry:

 

[shadow247]

No pics but I got stuck good in my Chevy when I was 17. I had only had my truck about 4 months and had never really used the 4x4. Well they had just starting grading a nearby field to build houses on so I decided to be cool and go tear it up. All was good, I tooled around for about 20 minutes, running through mudholes, doing donuts, and just playing around. Then I decided to explore a little more, which was stupid on my part seeing how it was pitch black out there. I took off down one of the roads they were grating, then decided to turn left for no reason at all. I instantly sank to the frame and was not going anywhere. Not wanting our parents to find out, we stripped down to our underwear and proceeded to wander around a construction site with no shoes on. We found some plywood and attempted to wedge it under the tires, but my frame was completely buried in the mud. After about an hour of being stuck and my buddy's girlfriend starting to get pissed, we called his dad. He came to our rescue in his 96 Tacoma on 33's and yanked us out real quick. He wasn't happy to have to rescue us at 10pm on a Friday night, but he had a big smile on his face when we were hooking up the tow rope in our underwear! First and only time I ever got my truck stuck.

 

[jakejjs]

Downhill on this trail was easy and it didn't seem deep, but then we hit a dead end and has to climb back.....uphill....thats when the madness began. Lifted on 35's and I was still opening my doors only to hit snow. Unfortunately this is the only pic taken as the winches were pulling me out.

 

[04rnr]

Ive been stuck so many times, I couldnt even count them, heck Ive been stuck at the trail head lol

 

[SUP3RJEFF]

Bump... More stories and pics please!!

 

[BucknutBob]

Downhill on this trail was easy and it didn't seem deep, but then we hit a dead end and has to climb back.....uphill....thats when the madness began. Lifted on 35's and I was still opening my doors only to hit snow. Unfortunately this is the only pic taken as the winches were pulling me out.

Hey Jake, just a word of advice--unless you (or whoever your friend in the foreground is) enjoy being sliced and diced, I'd get the heck away from those winch lines. If either one of those snaps, that guy is gonna get a face full of frayed cable at dangerously high speed. Not good practice, friend.

 

[Hoyal]

Cascade is Idaho springs 2 weeks ago.

 

[Hyde802]

Different kind of stuck. Was cutting hard left and down hill, the slider pushed the tree over as I went by it, then when the slider ended it sprung back up into my wheel well and got a little jammed. Had to walk out and get a saw, luckly I was not far from home and nothing was damaged besides the bed, but I dont really count body damage as real damage anymore. Haha

Good times! :bigok:

 

[ToyoTech]

was at a bottom of a V part of the mountain. on the climb back up the rear end started to slide off to the side and i ended up like this. had to winch out

 

[KidVermicious]

"Stuck"? What is this "stuck" you all are talking about?

I've actually never had my Yota stuck. I have been a couple times in Splodey, though. Once was with bald tires in a patch of sand down south of Canyonlands. I had my hilift and a wheelmate, and I had to jack up and put rocks under my tires three times to get out of that pit, in 105 degree heat. Very miserable. The other was on the side of the road, believe it or not - there's a highway along the mountain bench on the back side of the Salt Lake valley, and it was whited out with a snow storm. I'm tooling along and see a guy who is off the shoulder, waving for help. I always carry a strap in the back, so I pull over to give him a hand, and wasn't ready for how slick the shoulder was... I came to a stop, and immediately starting sliding sideways, ended up down in the ditch with him. The Dodge 1500 behind me couldn't get me out, we had to wait until an F250 came along and strapped up in front of the Dodge and both of them pulling yanked me out. Good times, good times.

 

[up-n-over]

Last March I went to the 1st Quarter SFWD meeting and ride in Tracy City, TN. We had a blast even though it poured rain all day long. We spent a good portion of the day fixing other people's broken rigs, but still got in some fun trails. Early in the day we had to reattach a rearend on a 1st generation 4Runner. Next, our trail guide got hung up on a rock and destroyed his rear driveshaft so I had to drag his rig out (I had to pull him out backwards).

It was getting late in the day and we decided to take the Parson's trail out so we followed our new trail guide up the rocky ravine. We got into the trail about a hundred yards and our new trail guide broke his rear pinion. We removed his driveshaft ,and since there was no way to go back down the trail, I went around him and hooked up a strap. I pulled him all the way to the top of the trail and then he got hung up on a huge boulder. I got a little heavy on the go-pedal and I discovered the weak point of my rig. I broke my left rear coilover shaft.

We used my hatchet to cut a log down to the correct length and wedged it between the frame and the axle. We then strapped the axle to the frame to lock the log in place, and drove the rig out. We had to winch the trail guide the rest of the way off of Parson's trail.

Here are some pics:

A couple of weeks later I went to Uwharrie and had a little problem...

YouTube - 4x4 with a tree for an axle

I had cracked the brake rotor mounting bolts in Tennessee and didn't know it, and then they broke at Uwharrie. I had checked virtually every other bolt on the rig before going to Uwharrie, but never thought about checking the ones that broke.

Today I replaced every rotor mounting bolt on the rig. None of the others showed any sign of damage. Good news is that I now have spares in case there is ever another problem.

 

[BucknutBob]

I know this isn't the kind of messy story as most in here, but it's pretty funny (at least from MY viewpoint--the other guy probably wasn't laughing much). I was out driving around a few days after a snow storm--the roads were clean and dry, with snow along the edges of the road. I came upon a fulll-size pickup parked at the roadside, and noticed he had just discovered the nasty truth about open diffs--although his left-side tires were on bone-dry pavement with tons of traction, his mighty rig was stuck because all the power was going to the tires that were now snowbound! I pulled over in my relatively tiny rig and, with his consent, gave him a little bump on the bumper--and voila! No more stuck. I enjoyed it, but I don't think he was too thrilled about it!

 

[magert54]

Hey Jake, just a word of advice--unless you (or whoever your friend in the foreground is) enjoy being sliced and diced, I'd get the heck away from those winch lines. If either one of those snaps, that guy is gonna get a face full of frayed cable at dangerously high speed. Not good practice, friend.

Unless they are synthetic

This is what happens when I say "im backing up to help him" she says "no dont"

We were trailing on Mesa Ridge Road behind Colorado Springs of Old Stage Rd. We were traveling on a 2-3 in snow packed/icy road with 6 vehicles. I was leading the pack with my 06 4Runner when about 2 miles into it I realize that the second truck was having an issue with traction. So as a nice person I thought I could help him out and back up. As I was backing up I got a little too close to the edge of the trail. (imagine, 6-7 Ft wide snow trail (one way traffic only) cliff/mountain side to the left and 50-75ft drop off on the edge with trees to poke you on the way down) My front right tire started to slide to the edge a bit, So I corrected and tried to move further back with my tire at full counter steer. At this point my wife is telling me “no don’t back up” , this encouraged me to prove her wrong and make it through this. I eased on the gas once more and felt the 4Runner “lurch” right, once that happened my back left became SUPER LIGHT. I stopped all actions put the E-brake on moved the gear to park and got out of the truck. As soon as I disembarked my truck I realized what happed and how much S**t I got my self in.

Notice the lower right side of the photo, you can see the tire tracks slide 3-4ft to the passanger side (ie cliff of DOOM :violin So my first reaction was "I need to anchor in to something”, that anchor was 50 ft away. So I run the line to the tree and hoped my truck would stay until I secured it.

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My fellow trail mates realized something that I didnt, My back left was not touching the ground!. So they hooked my hitch to a tree so prevent me from sliding further outward when I which out.
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Yep, I puckered a little, my first time getting stuck!
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[BucknutBob]

Unless they are synthetic

That's an affirmative! That's why a synthetic rope has always been part of my plan when I finally get a winch for the beast--if you manage to snap one, it just falls to the ground with little stored energy. Glad you made it out of your precarious situation, friend--that darned snow and ice can make problems like nothing else!

 

[Hoyal]