I was just wondering how many Bronc owners were from Iowa.

Is there anywhere cool to go in this boring state?

I'm sorry to say it but i'm from Ia. Down south near a tiny little dirt town called Lineville on Hwy 65. I live west of town, about 3/4 mile from Mo.. Ive worked up in your area digging in rural water lines, mostly in the story city to eldora area. Buried the water line in 50% pig shit. Thats the stankenest part of the world when they spread the crap on the fields. Driving up I 35 you hit the stank 10 to 15 miles south of story city. Theres no way in hell that can be healthy for the locals that have to breath that air day in and day out. If they ever get around to produceing methane from all that crap to fuel your average car or truck you will never have to worry about a fuel shortage. I'm sorry if that sounded like a rant but you have to agree that the factory hog production has gotten out of hand. Putting all that aside have you ever done business with Quick performance just north of ames? I had a 9" rear narrowed and some Mosier axles fitted there about 3 years ago for my 68 Mustang. They do a good job and the prices are not bad either. If anybody ever needs a 9" housing this guy's got hundreds of them piled up. I have 105 acres were I live that I drive around on when I get bored, but the same old trails get old after awhile. A friends uncle has 500 acres that we get together and do some trail driving on but haven't done that for maybe 3 of 4 years. The one thing nice about this area is that we have hills and timber to trail on other than that this area sucks. Over the past few years the big thing is to race 4/4s in mud bog contests and someday I plan to try that out myself,sounds like somthing fun and different.

I know exactly where thats at. My wifes from Seymour...and my grandparents live down their. My wifes dad does dirt work down their...Dennis Inman ring a bell???

I don't get over to the Seymour area much so I haven't heard the name before.

Waterloo, here.. nothing going on it this state....

Me and my dad used to take our S10 Blazer to 600 acres in Ely. Its ok :shrug . Alot of quads and dirt bikes there though.

Yeah, that is were the pic in my avatior is from, cost me a transmission...

I am from Cedar Rapids and I tell ya I wish that we had as much land that I was wheeling on in Texas for the summer. I was wondering if you all have a tailgate for a 89 eb that I could buy I would like it to have the heated window. If you have these parts please call me at 319-365-0964 Thanks for your time. Maybe we all can get together this summer and due some wheeling I think that it would be fun. :rockon :rebelflag :beer

Now,now I know y'all know about class B roads. You know, the ones with warning signs at the ends and bushes growing down the middle. Get a county map, and you will see them, they're the ones that don't show up on any other maps. My rig's too beat up for anything worse than gravel right now and I need to squeeze it along as a daily driver until I can buy something else. By-the-way, I'm in Fort Madison (right between Burlington and Keokuck on the river). Hopefully I can park my rig soon to do some subtantial work on her, but it will be a while before I can do any wheelin'.

West Des Moines in here just relocated from the boone area

davenport checkin' in, also frequent my hometown of burlington

sixtyeight-- would I be correct in guessing that you sold your land and are now living in Davis City???? Also anybody wanting to wheel needs to check out www.miobi.org , its a 4x4 club in the pella/newton/knoxville area mostly but members from all over the state. We mostly play on old mining grounds south of Knoxville. The website hasnt been worked on for a while, but you can check out the pictures to see the kind of wheeling we have available. If you are interested in joining and cant get anywhere from the website, just contact me.

Now,now I know y'all know about class B roads. You know, the ones with warning signs at the ends and bushes growing down the middle. .

That's all well and good, but it's embarrasing when you gotta ask some farmer to come pull you out.

P.S. Davenport here

I'm from Mount Ayr Iowa Rinngold county not to far from Lineville. I mud race a guthrie center, osceola, greenfield, princton MO, Lamoni, Winterset, Mount Ayr and sometime reasoner. Some of the tracks are courses and some of them are just plain straight through pits but the courses like the one I'm running tommorow in Osceola ar a blast. You guys should come watch or bring down a rig. Here is my website it tells a little bit about my Bronco and the tracks I race on I havent updated it for awhile but if someone wants a schedule just email me an I will send you one. http://www.geocities.com/dredgeracing/dredgehomepage.html

wyldstallyn I'm originally from pella...is that club pretty new??

I went to the website...I know that club...

We used to live in Mason City, but moved to Cleveland, TN in August.:shocked

Alot going on from this little state. Lol.

I have a buddy that runs Make It or Break It quite a bit. You ever seen a red jeep (square headlights) with 31/33-13.50 Swampers driven like crazy by a crazy guy named Josh? Yeah, I know him lol. I drive by there alot going back adn forth between my uncle's place in Pleasantville, and my college dorm room down in Centerville. Can't wait to go there after my SAS. Looks fun as hell. Also in the Cedar Rapids area alot too. Not a Bko though...but close enough ;).

i'm in newton

Centerville here Hi all

How many freaking Centervillians do we have on this site,

My god did your whole town buy membership to FSB.

Guess I never gave my location- Osceola if anybody cares!!

Actually my wife and some other relations are from Seymour and Centerville....You guys have all kinds a "Level B" roads down ther. Up here they are non existant.

Aren't Appanoose (Centerville) and Davis (bloomfield) counties the poorest in Iowa? they CAN'T afford to pave the roads.

I am from Des Moines.

Born in Blakesburg, Liven in Ottumwa. Wooppy :toothless

laurens iowa new here, been here a couple months

Council Bluffs. I have to keep my truck close to home until I can afford some new tires...speaking of which, I've got 31" tires now, I don't want to lift the truck just yet....what are the tallest tires that will fit without a lift of any sort?

im from the Des Moines also

from westgate, small little town...actually live about 5 miles from there.

davenport here (quad cites area)

Cedar Rapids here :drinkbud

you guys know any good spots around me to wheel, i would be willing to drive up to 2 hours to get to a good place. thanks

I just moved to Little Sioux about 2 weeks ago, about 60 miles north of council Bluffs.

BURLINGTON !!!!!!! we have some decent places around here....some of my friends private property.....sullivan slou has prolly 3 or 4 trails in it...then we got a big nasty place in the middle of town thats muddy as **** but easy to get threw...then north of town theres some B-Maintained(NOT) roads that are good depending on your rig.....i just got my bronco so i havent tryed any of them yet....oh and the 4 inches of snow doesnt help much....

1986 Bronco ...EFI 5.0L V8....Starfire Durango Radial M/T Tires...it works 8-)

if anyones ever around and want to hit up some places....if im not at work ill more than happily go with ya.....
PM me for the phone number if your interested

how far is that from davenport(quat cities)? send me a pm if you could, thanks

BURLINGTON !!!!!!!

Sweet! I go to school at SCC., so Burlington ain't too far; I live in Ft. Madison. PM me or some junk. My rigs down right now, but when she's back up, I'm rarin' to go.

i went up to a place were my buddy took his jeep (33" Mickey Thompsons and a 4" sus lift..) man ill tell you i had a hell of a time getting to the top of a few hills...one needed a good run and one needed 2 guys to push...haha...its a pretty cool place...probably not suppose to go back there but its still cool....ill admit that the bronco is doing a lot better than i ever expected...

my friend has a farm about half way inbetween ft madison and b-town were we go every other weekend or so....sometimes we bring some 4-wheelers down with us

^^ to the above it was nice and dry and he used 4-Hi every now and then...but it was much harder in the snow....but it still worked great :chili:

once i get my bronco down here from michigan we'll have to get together and do a iowa bronco run.

Leave your Bronco up in Michigan for the Silver Lakes run this June. I wanna see as many folks there as possible.

If you guys put together an Iowa run, hit me up I'm all for it. I'm pretty green but I can follow direction and stay away from that wich I can't recover from.

oh, i'm going to silver lake this summer, and probably in the spring, but I still plan on bringing the bronco down to iowa, jsut not sure when yet. we should do a run, i would like to find some off road places around me to run, so i have an excuse to bring the bronco down here

yea theres stuff around here that is pretty challenging depending on what your driving...

"Beer can alley" 130th is a road that doesnt get maintained at all..and is pretty decent...but unless you can control real well i wouldnt because tires go in ruts on the sides of the roads that will sit your side up against more dirt and rock....

155th is a good one too when its not frozen solid...long mud road

"Triplage Road" 70th ave.....its not the road...its whats on the side of it (hills, hills, and a cornfield and trails

"King Kong Trails" a half ass creek runoff...always wet, currently frozen solid....usually real muddy...not so much challenging unless your running a stock dodge durango (dont ask, lol:goodfinge )

Sullivan Slough- consists of 3-4 trails...also frozen solid but VERY nice when wet

Davis' Farm- My friend Gabe's farm that has a cornfield and a creek (creek is fun to drive on at all time, except flood...haha,

Sharar's- My friend Jacks dads house that has a creek with a good sized mud pit...yayuh

but thats pretty much all around here...im waiting for the ground to thaw though to take my bronco offroading/mudding so i know whats up 8-)

awsome, i'll let you know when i get my bronco down here, maybe i can make a run with you

sounds good to me


but if i dont want to spend a lot of money right now would a body lift be the way to go?

and also would i want me and a few buddies to do it or have a mechanic do it

might i add that king kong trails is in the middle of the city but its still cool....and sullivan slough might piss off the DNR but ive heard they are pretty light

i did the body lift first on my bronco. i know there will be plenty of anti-body lift guys out there, but i was on a limited budget and putting 3" of lift on for under 100 bucks sounded good to me. i did the lift with a couple of friends, but if it's pretty rusted, then it'll be a job. for me i wanted to jsut run 33s with plenty of clearance, also just wanted it up in the air a little more. i woudl go for it. but then again you can get 4" suspension lifts for around 500, but that's some work too to put in.

i found a 6" suspension lift from rough country for under $500 but thats not including other stuff i might need for the install...
but until i start making more money i guess its the body lift 8-)

yeah, that's what i would do, especially if you have an overdrive tranny, you won't be able to run big tires and still use overdrive until you can do gears anyways, thats why i just did body lift and 33s, did everythign i wanted it to like that

ill prolly keep my 32" durangos on there till damn bald...but ill get the body lift hear with tax money....ill prolly have me and a few friends over and stick the body lift on there and unwrap the log chain and tow strap from my back bumper (log chain tightened into itself, then we wraped a tow strap around it to get me off a big snow pile (it got double knotted tot he log chain (WTF) but yea im looking into tow hooks for the front bumper...any suggestions on where to get them and how to install them? i had the front bumper off to install offroad lights so idk

i got my tow hooks on ebay, then just put them in the hole where the sway bar use to be, then drilled two more holes. unfortunatly i'm in the same boat too, have cheap ol 31s for now until i can afford some bigger ones, i did have the 33s, like i said, but had to sell those to rebuild the trans

god damn iowa winter...i thought it was over with but nooo we get 3 more inches of snow
haha oh well it was fun to mess around in 8-)

but the sooner spring comes the sooner i can repaint my bronco with shit colored brown chunky substance
haha
oh and some trail driving

yeah, i wish i had the bronco running so i could play in the snow. anyone on here close to me have a tranny jack i could borrow?

I've got a house in Des Moines and two of my broncos are there. The 95 4 dr psd and the 85 parts bronco. :beer

oh and I married one of the Iowa FSB members :rockon

someone should plan an iowa meet and greet then, but i probably wouldnt' be able to make it until fall, like i said earlier.

Martensdale here - just south of DSM.

Lots of great B-roads here, and one I know for sure would be a challenge right now with all the melting and run-off! Last year, it turned into a clay swamp and I had to go in and try to pull a stupid kid and his Blazer out of a ditch - on a hill!

Too bad that was before I got new tires....could have been fun.

how far are you from davenport?

I've got a house in Des Moines and two of my broncos are there. The 95 4 dr psd and the 85 parts bronco. :beer

oh and I married one of the Iowa FSB members :rockon

Well he is a lucky man!! when I read about you in Bronco Driver, I thought to myself "THAT'S the kind of girl I'm gonna marry!!"