BigDaveZJ
04-04-2005, 01:45 AM
Alrighty. That was a TRIP!!!
The adventure started out Wednesday. Drove up to DIA to pick up Matt, headed to Boulder to get the trailer, had lunch at Illegal Pete's and made fun of hippies. Come back down to C-Rock and get the trailer loaded up. Then we jumped in the yota to go get Pam from work and head to Mark's for some dinner. Some GOOD shit!!! So after dinner we head back down to C-Rock and noticed it happened to have snowed a little bit here. Jeeps outside on the trailer. FAAAAWWWWKK!!!!!!!!
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/fucksnow/fucksnow%20004.jpg
Kinda pissed about that. But everything melted and dried off on the way to Moab, and all my electrical shit works just fine so no worries.
Pulled into town Thursday night, grabbed some dinner at Moab Brewery and crashed pretty early. Friday morning we got up PLANNING to go run Cliffhanger and then Poison Spider Mesa. We knew Cliffhanger was supposed to be paved, but we wanted to see how bad it was. We all met at City Market as usual, only to find Cody with a completely FAWKED trailer axle. He's going nowhere. He dropped the trailer at City Market and went to get a new axle and we headed off to the trail.
Cliffhanger was about as we expected, still a couple slightly difficult options available. Here's Pam coming down the steps:
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20038.jpg
We breezed out to the cliff with no issues at all, only to find the pipeline that was to buried STILL running right across the trail. They screw the trail up, and then dont even do the work they're supposed to!! Oh well, hopefully it'll be back to normal soon. We turned around right after the cliff since we had seen what we came to see. Stopped and grabbed lunch and Matt decided my spare tire looked like a la-z-boy.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20024.jpg
After lunch we started to head back, and I noticed the clunking and clanking from my busted driver side front UCA bracket was getting worse. Pulled over to check it out and saw that the bolt was actually getting pulled THROUGH the unibody, NO BUENO!!!! So we pulled out Keith's ready welder and took care of that. Notice the bracket laying by the welder, COMPLETELY pulled off the frame.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20042.jpg
Here's a blurry pic of where the bolt was pulling through
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20045.jpg
Looked like some sort of crazy Jeep love fest going on.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20032.jpg
Got that all fixed up and headed back to town. Met up with Cody and started getting his new axle ready to go. Got the new spring perches welded on and ready to go when we noticed that the bolt pattern was different on the new axle!! FAWK!!!! Ended up getting some new wheels to fit the new bolt pattern. We went and grabbed some grub and then headed out to Poison Spider for a night run. GREAT trail to do at night. No pics though. Let Pam try a few steeper obstacles, didn't tell her until she was done with one of them that her front left tire (well, technically MY front left tire since she doesn't have a Jeep yet) was about two feet in the air.
The next morning we went out to Hell's Revenge and stopped to play at Dump Bump for a bit. I don't have any pics of this yet, but I'm sure some will surface. I've got video that will be up soon, including some of Keith, ummm, well, I'm not really sure what he was doing. Cody did find some new friends though and gave some jailbait chicks rides up and down Dump Bump.
We headed out on Hell's Revenge and we all gave it a go on Hell's Gate. Pretty sweet little obstacle. We all made it alright thanks to Cody's spotting.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20079.jpg
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20085.jpg
Then we headed over to the hot tubs. Cody proceeded to break BOTH front shafts, a hub, AND a rear disc caliper bracket in one tub. I strapped him out (have video proof of this, and I'm sure pics will surface, so much for King Strapmaster!!). Then my Jeep was running like shit, noticed it was WAAAAAAY hot. Determined the t-stat was seized shut, so we punched it open with a screwdriver and went on our merry way.
Got to Tip Over Challenge, lots of vultures waiting for some carnage, but I finessed it up (again, have video, will post sooner or later).
Then we drank beer. And I'm tired. So this is all I'm going to post for now. I've only got the pics Pam and I took, I know Keith and Matt got quite a few too, and I'll got some of the video up, although some of it is on the lines of Henley's avatar!!!
The adventure started out Wednesday. Drove up to DIA to pick up Matt, headed to Boulder to get the trailer, had lunch at Illegal Pete's and made fun of hippies. Come back down to C-Rock and get the trailer loaded up. Then we jumped in the yota to go get Pam from work and head to Mark's for some dinner. Some GOOD shit!!! So after dinner we head back down to C-Rock and noticed it happened to have snowed a little bit here. Jeeps outside on the trailer. FAAAAWWWWKK!!!!!!!!
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/fucksnow/fucksnow%20004.jpg
Kinda pissed about that. But everything melted and dried off on the way to Moab, and all my electrical shit works just fine so no worries.
Pulled into town Thursday night, grabbed some dinner at Moab Brewery and crashed pretty early. Friday morning we got up PLANNING to go run Cliffhanger and then Poison Spider Mesa. We knew Cliffhanger was supposed to be paved, but we wanted to see how bad it was. We all met at City Market as usual, only to find Cody with a completely FAWKED trailer axle. He's going nowhere. He dropped the trailer at City Market and went to get a new axle and we headed off to the trail.
Cliffhanger was about as we expected, still a couple slightly difficult options available. Here's Pam coming down the steps:
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20038.jpg
We breezed out to the cliff with no issues at all, only to find the pipeline that was to buried STILL running right across the trail. They screw the trail up, and then dont even do the work they're supposed to!! Oh well, hopefully it'll be back to normal soon. We turned around right after the cliff since we had seen what we came to see. Stopped and grabbed lunch and Matt decided my spare tire looked like a la-z-boy.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20024.jpg
After lunch we started to head back, and I noticed the clunking and clanking from my busted driver side front UCA bracket was getting worse. Pulled over to check it out and saw that the bolt was actually getting pulled THROUGH the unibody, NO BUENO!!!! So we pulled out Keith's ready welder and took care of that. Notice the bracket laying by the welder, COMPLETELY pulled off the frame.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20042.jpg
Here's a blurry pic of where the bolt was pulling through
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20045.jpg
Looked like some sort of crazy Jeep love fest going on.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20032.jpg
Got that all fixed up and headed back to town. Met up with Cody and started getting his new axle ready to go. Got the new spring perches welded on and ready to go when we noticed that the bolt pattern was different on the new axle!! FAWK!!!! Ended up getting some new wheels to fit the new bolt pattern. We went and grabbed some grub and then headed out to Poison Spider for a night run. GREAT trail to do at night. No pics though. Let Pam try a few steeper obstacles, didn't tell her until she was done with one of them that her front left tire (well, technically MY front left tire since she doesn't have a Jeep yet) was about two feet in the air.
The next morning we went out to Hell's Revenge and stopped to play at Dump Bump for a bit. I don't have any pics of this yet, but I'm sure some will surface. I've got video that will be up soon, including some of Keith, ummm, well, I'm not really sure what he was doing. Cody did find some new friends though and gave some jailbait chicks rides up and down Dump Bump.
We headed out on Hell's Revenge and we all gave it a go on Hell's Gate. Pretty sweet little obstacle. We all made it alright thanks to Cody's spotting.
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20079.jpg
http://www.mallcrawlin.com/wheelinpics/moapapril05/GSWprerun05%20085.jpg
Then we headed over to the hot tubs. Cody proceeded to break BOTH front shafts, a hub, AND a rear disc caliper bracket in one tub. I strapped him out (have video proof of this, and I'm sure pics will surface, so much for King Strapmaster!!). Then my Jeep was running like shit, noticed it was WAAAAAAY hot. Determined the t-stat was seized shut, so we punched it open with a screwdriver and went on our merry way.
Got to Tip Over Challenge, lots of vultures waiting for some carnage, but I finessed it up (again, have video, will post sooner or later).
Then we drank beer. And I'm tired. So this is all I'm going to post for now. I've only got the pics Pam and I took, I know Keith and Matt got quite a few too, and I'll got some of the video up, although some of it is on the lines of Henley's avatar!!!