Has anyone taken their 2wd Hemi in the snow? How does it do with the Limited Slip Differential?

 

Well, I've driven mine in 2wd in the snow. The LSD does fine as long as you don't get crazy with the acceleration. If you do, the truck is really squirrely. In fact, shortly after I got mine during last summer just after a breif rain storm, I was turning left at an intersection and mildly accelerated through the left turn and the back end swung around for a complete 180. Shocked the hell out of the people behind me, and surprised me too. All I could do was shrug my shoulders and get back going the right direction. Just take it easy until you feel how the truck reacts on snow and you'll be OK. Some extra weight in the back helps immensly too. I'm running nearly 800# of sand bags in mine, but I travel some nasty winter highways going to work every day, and yes, I do use my 4wd on the highway when its snowing [sm=burnout.gif]

 

I have yet to use mine in snow, but I am going to this week end.

 

Go to Home Depot and buy a few hundred punds of tube sand. Then go easy on the gas.

Oh, and lose the crappy OEM tires. If they are the Goodyear Wrangler SRA's like I had they suck for wet road and snow traction. For the life of me I can't understand why OEM's put such crappy stock tires on their cars and trucks.

 

Limited slip is AWESOME!!! I would never get another truck without it. No sand needed! BE A MAN!! LOL J/k I seem to do just fine without it. I haven't even used my 4x4

 

Stock tires are horrible, but its a truck so you just have to know how to handle it. Weight always helps but if you have good tires and limited slip you'll be ok.

 

Just throw some bags of concrete mix in the back of your truck before it snows. After it starts snowing, you'll have all the weight for traction you could ask for.

 

I actually built a custom frame for the back of my truck that holds patio stones, works amazing and doesnt slide around like sandbags. My dad has done the same thing forever with is trucks, if your interested I can take pics and show you how to make one, easy as hell and cheap.