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Anonymous
 
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Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 01:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Ok I've got the big 26"ers on my MaxIV and in the duck swamp I get gumbo mud stuck to the tires and it will build up so bad the machine will just pull to one side. Clearance between the tires and body seems to be the problem any suggestions?
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Fred Sowerwine, Montana's Max dealer
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Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 02:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

(1) you can try backing up thirty or forty feet every now and then to clean off your tires. (2) You can get into the water and run your tires in reverse to wash the mud off. (3) You can put your tires on with the "v" going the other way, but this will reduce your speed in water significantly. (4) spraying something like STP "sun of a gun" on your tires and keeping your lower body waxed helps a little.

You do need to address this as mud buildup will put tremendous stress on your drive system. One fella even stretched out a new o-ring chain on his 950T. Before I learned the backing up trick, I was brought to a dead stop climbing a mountain one day in the gumbo.
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Anonymous
 
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Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 09:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thanks Fred,

I tried the backing up and the running in water and it helped a little but not enough. I don't usually have to travel in water deep enough to float the machine so perhaps the reversal of tread will be my best option for it seems to throw the mud to the inside now. Will this result in less performance in the mud and sand making the machine easier to stick?

Thanks,
Jon
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Fred Sowerwine, Montana's Max dealer
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I can't really answer that question because I have never run my tires in traction position. My guess is that you will still get buildup between the tire sidewall and the body (the reason for the wax on the body and the stuff on the tires is to try to prevent this a little), but your tread on the driving area of the tire should clean out a little better depending on your speed. Could reduce your performance in mud as you will loose the scooping action of the tire (same as in water), but shouldn't change much in sand (actually any tread at all is a detriment in sand as our wheels don't spin fast enough to act as a propeller). Anyplace you can get a grip, the tires in traction mode will work better going forward, but if you ease in to a trouble spot and cannot go forward, you will probably loose the ability to back out.

Gumbo is tough and each has to decide, based on their own circumstances, how to try to conquer it.
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Bud Dunn
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Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 06:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Carry a 5 gallon pump up sprayer ($15 at Walmart) and clean the gumbo mud off with that. You can paint it camo to blend it with your duck hunting setup if necessary.
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Tom Phillips
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Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 08:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I've tried spaying my tires (while they were clean) with the tire foam before heading out, but still have to go to a high pressure wash bay and takes awhile to get the mud off, especially after it gets dried on there on the way back to town. Still looking for a good solution.
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david berger
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Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 10:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

i have sean even dry mud just fall off of john schwabs maxII, he uses a product called "flash"
but i don't know where he gets it or how much it costs, you need to e-mail him to find out, or john might post it here.
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Howard Hoover
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Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 10:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I've never read the precautions on the back of a
cooking spray can but my cousin says she uses it on the underside of the mower to keep grass from building up so much, she says it works? I don't know how it would work on rubber tires or if there would be any negative effects from it like drying out the tires etc. but you could try that.

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