How hard is it to break parts off roading?

i have a 93 ford explorer limited it has 4 wheel drive so i know u can break parts but how hard is it can i go normal speed (20ish mph) or do i need to go really slow (5-10 mph) or can i hall like 35 mph and not have to worry and the stuff i would go on is just like a big 4 wheeler trail with some bad ruts|||let the road be your guide, and your butt, the harder you are on your rig, the harder your body gets the pee beat out of it, and breaking parts is easy, there are groups of guys who get together and go all extreme, and bring everything from spare parts trucks to welders, but if you don't have all that stuff, do not do any superman moves, and never go to a isolated spot by yourself, I have pulled off road on trails I knew well and gotten stuck a few hundred feet from the street dropping a wheel in a water filled hole that was a lot deeper than it looked, and got the differential hung up on a mud covered rock, . IF YOU see those commercials with the truck leaping over bumps and stuff, or pounding hard over rocks, that's how to break parts, spinning tires in loose stuff, and then catching traction, can break axles or u joints easy. So always make sure your rig is in good mechanical shape, If it has a broken part, dont go. have fun, and NEVER EVER GO ANYWHERE WITH OUT A FULL TANK OF GAS. We have gone up a mountain road, I told my buddy to fill up, but he was often a fool, and one time something happened to the trail behind us,a rock slide, and we had to take a really long way up and over the mountain, he was so scared he was going to run out of gas on these steep rocky nasty cliffs it was almost funny. In order to get out, I made him follow me, super slow, he wanted to just rocket as fast as possible, and I said NO GO SLOW, TO SAVE FUEL. we got to safety on fumes somehow for his truck. Also downhills take longer to stop, you can stop fast going up hill. I had a friend who liked to play mario andretti on hairy mountain roads, he would just scream down that mmountain one time he flew around a corner, hit some loose debris from a rock slide, and fishtailed to a stop, his tires pushed three inches of dirt in front of them, I came around the corner, and recognized his tire prints in the dirt an inch from shooting off a thousand foot drop. (I asked him on the cb how he liked the ride he said he didn't have time to pay attention, he was trying to jump out of the truck, but forgot he had a seat belt on, luckily he stopped and inch from sure death by gods grace. The key?? don't do anything horrendously stupid, and you will live to go 4x4 another day, have cb radios to communicate (those cheap crappy hand held cobra from wal mart will work for short distances just fine. or get a good cb. take more people, and if you want to race, fine, go explore the road FIRST, SO YOU DON'T FLY OFF ANY CLIFFS, OR SLAM HEAD ON INTO A ROCK FACE.


YOU CAN HAVE A BLAST in a few inches of snow, but when you look in the mirror and start to see the differential groove as the snow gets deep going up hill, turn around right there. And if you want to have fun and never fix a flat tire, get the bf goodrich all terrain ko, they will work in just about everthing well, and even bald, have a two inch thick layer of rubber. My buddy used to take his worn tires, and almost everytime we went, he got a flat, it was a real pain in the butt, so get some good tires.|||really easy! thats why those who do usually have a stock of tie rod ends, shocks,wheels, ect laying around,so you can get to work on monday. tip: keep a spare tie rod end, pickle fork and tools for your truck with you at all times, the other stuff you can usually limp home with.|||If your butt and hands feel like they're getting beat up, so is your Explorer - slow down until you and the Sploder are both a bit more comfortable.|||stock steering rods break very easy when in four wheel drive, drive lines iunder heavy excessive loads can break as well as u-joints. These are all weak links and should be up-graded to heavy duty parts made specifically for off roading|||Nobody 4 wheel's at 35 mph. 4 wheeling isn't a race. It's easy to break stuff.|||thats what you mom said last night _******_