I've heard winter traction is pretty bad with a dually.

Should I do anything like decrease the tire pressure or anything to help?

Brian Elfert

 

Put some weight in back.

 

Got a 4x4?

I haven't found it too bad once it's in 4-wheel with the dually. I'm going into my 3rd winter with the truck and haven't had any issues. I also never added any weight in the bed and even took out the 5th wheel hitch. ;D


Tony

 

Your sig doesn't show if you are 4x4 or 4x2, but if your truck is 4x2 like mine, the answer is weight in the bed and good tires. I keep about 600 lbs of chicken grit (crushed granite) in the bed, in 50 lb bags. That way, if I happen to need extra traction, I break open a bag and spread it under the wheels. In addition to that, I have a 74 gal. aux. fuel tank in the bed that I keep full all winter. So I guess I'm carrying about 1000 to 1100 lbs in the bed.

For tires, I run Cooper ATs and I am very happy with their performace. I live in a area where 200 inches of snow a season is fairly common, and I've never been stuck yet.

Hope this helps some.

DeWain

 

Never had much of a problem with traction. I always have 500-600# of bagged sand or gravel on the flatbed.

 

I ran the stock Michelin M&S tires the last winter we had here. Even with 1200 pounds of John Deere wheel weights in the rear, Neons and Civics were passing me up in about six inches of snow. Got it back to the house and drove the Neon for the rest of the storm. It won't even pull off wet grass on the level without going to 4WD. It will haul the mail on a dry road pulling 13 tons now you bet.

 

weight
lots of weight

more the better

my truck weighs 10,000# with all the welding equip in back and the rear will still search for a path in heavy (really heavy here in MN) snow and slush conditions

deflating tires doesnt necessarily help
it makes the tires trap more snow and slush instead of directing it out of the way

 

If you want to get a little fancy get a large diameter steel pipe(4"+) and weld a male connector to it so you can put it in the receiver hitch. Cap one end and fill it with old lead wheel weights, then cap the other end. The leverage plus the weight can do wonders.

4x4

 

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If you want to get a little fancy get a large diameter steel pipe(4"+) and weld a male connector to it so you can put it in the receiver hitch. Cap one end and fill it with old lead wheel weights, then cap the other end. The leverage plus the weight can do wonders.

4x4
[/quote]I'd rather have the weight centered on the axle or even a little forward of it. Having the weight way out back makes it harder to straighten 'er out when you get a little sideways.

 

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Ithe rear, Neons and Civics were passing me up in about six inches of snow. Got it back to the house and drove the Neon
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I guess I'll be better off driving my VW Golf TDI if the snow gets bad. Of course, the Golf only has like 3" of ground clearance, so deep snow will still require the pickup in 4WD.

I mostly bought the pickup for hauling my RV in the summer, so I am set there.

I did tear up some grass at a Boy Scout camp because I couldn't get any traction and had to use a lot of acellerator.

Brian Elfert

 

When the goin' gets tough, The Beast stays home and Wifey's Landcruiser comes out of the garage.

 

If their is a little snow I take the car and a lot I take the truck and drop her in 4X4. Like pulling into my cabin in January in Northern Minnesota. We are finely getting some snow here expecting 10 inches so time to have some fun! ;D

 

In North Texas we normally do not get “snow” we get ice (freezing rain or sleet) so most of the things that have been listed don’t work.
The best thing to do is stay home, but if that is not an option (working for a city, most of the time it is not for me) then I use this to help with traction.
I put two 55-gallon drums in the bed and fill with water (917 lbs.), use a load strap to secure them at the tailgate. Then when the weather warms up, water the yard. I also put chains on the outside duel when needed. I keep a short 4x4 block and drive the inside tire up onto it, this makes it much easier to chain up. With this set up I have found that I can go in any weather that Mother Nature can dish out. The only problem has been all of the northern folks that think that they can drive on snow/ice keep sliding around and blocking the road.
Last year my wife went to work in Irving and did not make plans to stay (no blood pressure pills). When she got off work the streets had turned into a sheet of glass. I drove from Cleburne to Irving picked her up and drove home again stopping in Midlothian to deliver food to my employees at the water plant and on home (round trip of 112 miles). Never spun a tire or had a problem, other than the other drivers on the road. Did not drive faster than 15-20 MPH and over six hours travel time but we made it.

 

i had 91 350 with training wheels and when it gets bad i would take two of the tires off and put about 2000 pounds of snow on the bed. worked really well. my 91 was totalled about 5 months ago now i have 92 4x4 ctd of course and i have about 600 pounds of plate steel in bed. it was hard to put them in bed by myself but i managed it

 

Wet grass, FORGET IT, had to us the CJ5 to pull it out of the yard, wet roads, it wants to get squirlly at times, but if we get as much as 2 snow flakes down here, it ain't gonna move , the idiots down here don't know how to drive after 4 snow flakes fall. ;D ;D