4x4, its a must.

Every time I seeing someone having a problem at a ramp, They seemed to have gone to that "When In Doubt, Gas It !!!! " school of driving.

In fact, My wife and I were laughing our asses off last week when the guy next to us was smoking the tires off a 2500 Chevy (2WD) trying to get a 18-20' run about out.

He kept just putting it to floor and spinning the hell out of it.

At the time, I had my old F150 (Single Wheel Peel) with the Scarab, and pulled mine right out.

I heard him tell his girl friend it was because my Ford didn't have enough power to spin the tires

One tire fire!!

There are 4 ramps around here I use. One ramp forget about it without 4X4, and one other can be questionable. As to loosing the brakes I put it in drive when I'm backing down. If I need to slow down I use the gas. Never locks up that way.

thanks guys 4x4 it will be

donz jr mike

the truck won't look to pretty when it cannot get the boat out of the water because the back tires are smoking.

Chit I need to lock it in just to move my boat around in gravel. But I do have a 4 axle trailer thats a little hard to turn sharp.

When Crazyhorse and I picked up his 38 Flatdeck on Floriduh a couple of years ago, he was driving (and still is) a 2wd dually crew cab Chevy deisel. We had to have myself, Dave Dahl (DJD on this board) a couple of big guys at the ramp stand on the trailer tongue to get the boat out of the water. And this was on a nice long level ramp. As soon as the front tires got past the top of the ramp the rears started to spin. Took 2 trys to get the boat out and it probably wieghs about what yours weighs.

Go 4x4 and never look back!!!

Just my $0.02..
I had a 3500 series Chevy Dually, 2WD..got stuck on the ramp a bunch of times. I have a 2500 series Suburban 4WD, and I haven't gotten stuck anywhere....and, my boat is bigger now than with the dually.
hope this helps.
C

What he said.....