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04-27-2009, 11:05 AM
Can't say this trip was a successfull one for me. Got there no problem, unpacked, set up camp etc. We started to party a little and decided to run up to camp 1 to hang out for a bit. I'm standing backBSing a little, hear my rig fire up and start bouncing off the rev limiter a little. Which isn't a big deal, happens all the time. Buddy walks up, says he's going back to camp to get more beer and wants to take my rig. So he gets back and does a loop behind an RV. I then see a huge mushroom cloud of smoke! I'm like...someones shit just blew up. Then I noticed...where's my rig?!?!?! Yeah, it was mine. For some reason the radiator decided to POP. It literally exploded! The passenger side of the rad opened up from top to bottom and opened as much as 1.5" near the bottom. So about 2 miles of access road and my rig got to sit at camp all weekend! But still had a great time.
As for trails, our group ran Bunny (not the deep hole though), canyon, v-trail, part of bolder, and corum. We went through, 2 axle shafts, 1 TRE (broke right in half), couple of popped beads, couple of brake issues, 1 locker, and that's it I think! I'll try to get some pics up later.
04-27-2009, 12:04 PM
you touched my mirror on sunday and it broke
04-27-2009, 12:18 PM
oh and the 12am curfew is super gay, and the try to be gone by 4pm on sunday is bullshit too
04-27-2009, 01:36 PM
I hardly touched it and it moved...it slid right back into place so it had to of been broken before!Originally Posted by 1fox2go
Didn't hear about either one of these. I was gone by 4 on Sunday and that place will never shut down by midnight. It was was 3am on friday night and who knows what time it was on Saturday night!
04-27-2009, 02:10 PM
This was Sunday at the drivers meeting, and the mirror wasn't broke before, you dislocated it, jinxed it with your bad luck and it broke on the trail later that day
Did you hear the gulch trail is closed now?
Did that friend of yours get his rig fixed with that tie rod end my dad had? Looking forward to some free shit
04-27-2009, 02:24 PM
Why? Isn't that aka Pennsyltuckian?
Too many loose rocks rolling downhill making it too dangerous?
Last edited by SirFuego; 04-27-2009 at 02:34 PM.
Originally Posted by SB406
04-27-2009, 02:40 PM
Yeah, and he didn't put a cotter pin in it so the castle nut fell off on corum. Took one of his lug nuts off to use on the TRE for him to keep running! lolDid that friend of yours get his rig fixed with that tie rod end my dad had? Looking forward to some free shit
Did berk get his rig going again w/ the pitman arm we gave you? We're even!
No, gulch is down past V-trail. P-tucky is next to corum. But no I hadn't heard they shut gulch down. Buddy of ours ran part of it on saturday after he fixed his locker he broke while running with us that morning.
04-27-2009, 02:49 PM
My buddy Ed was down there this weekend and said Gulch wasn't closed. Was this a late-Sunday occurence? Or was it "closed" temporarily because of broken rigs left there due to the 30 minute rule?
Originally Posted by SB406
04-27-2009, 04:37 PM
that'd be my guess, we ran pensyl...whatever and ran into a clusterfawk of broken stuff around there. I'm not to familliar with the trails so we just kinda went where the group went. The CJ broke the throttle cable during starting sun morning so we packed up and left.
04-27-2009, 04:42 PM
No gulch is closed from now on because the owner didn't like the sediments that the jeeps made running into his lake so its closed for good prolly.
No reemer so we cut off the reemed section of my broken pitman arm and welded it to the new one. Put that on backwords cus I'm dumb so when I turned left I went right. But my steering box blew up so I didn't wheel sunday. So my weekend was only 5 min of trail time saturday and 5 min back to camp that night
Last edited by berk9; 04-27-2009 at 04:47 PM.
04-27-2009, 05:02 PM
No gulch is closed from now on because the owner didn't like the sediments that the jeeps made running into his lake so its closed for good prolly.
No reemer so we cut off the reemed section of my broken pitman arm and welded it to the new one. Put that on backwords cus I'm dumb so when I turned left I went right. But my steering box blew up so I didn't wheel sunday. So my weekend was only 5 min of trail time saturday and 5 min back to camp that night
Sucks about Gulch...never got a chance to run it. Sorry your box crapped out. I tried to help w/ what I had. You just going to put in another stock box or upgrade while you're in the process?
04-27-2009, 05:40 PM
Too many words, not enough pictures.
04-27-2009, 05:41 PM
matt, hey bro...thanks so much for lending me your steering box bolt. if u want it back i can bring it to you. what would you recomend that i do so that dosnt happen agian.the tabs on the box broke and a bolt. think a brace would be enough? even if i build a brace then i bet ill shear the shaft the pitman arm is on. seems to me hydro assist might be for me. thanks agian man. u saved me! next time im trailering my rig.
Last edited by Fish1200; 04-27-2009 at 07:33 PM.
04-27-2009, 10:17 PM
Are you the guy at the top of V trail? If so do you know the xj that broke on the bottom?
04-27-2009, 10:27 PM
x2!Too many words, not enough pictures.
Originally Posted by SB406
04-27-2009, 10:51 PM
Hey man...I was wondering if you were on here. Not a problem about the bolt. I probably have another one or two out in the garage anyway. If not, I'll grab some from the yard next time I go. Both a brace and hydro assist would help. A 4 bolt box would be great as well.
Yeah, he was at the top of v-trail. The XJ broke the adjuster collar on the draglink sometime early saturday. It was there when we ran it saturday afternoon.
04-27-2009, 10:58 PM
If anyone knows the xj tell that dumbass to pull his shit off the trail further. He had a good 3-4 feet he could have backed up more and you dont need to steer to back up straight. We almost hit his shit, thats how I broke my mirror trying not to hit his jeep
04-27-2009, 10:59 PM
Wheeling was a great success. It was a bummer we didn't take mine but pat's rig did god damn sweet.
pats wrangler and the range rover was the crew we road up with.
First, the damage.
Berks pitman arm
Pats power steering line blew
we got that fixed pretty fast though
ranger rover started out brand new, not anymore
now to the pics
We have TONS of pics and a video of pat on the hard shit at the end. That will come soon.
Great weekend of wheeling
04-28-2009, 12:49 AM
The guy with the welder at our camp (Zack) also broke his mirror off coming back down V trying to get past him.
04-28-2009, 06:40 AM
yea he was close to the trail. i was lucky to get mine off as far as i did with no coolant or steering. thanks agian man. see u in june.
what would be a good 4 bolt box? off a wj? or r dakota/darango boxes 4 bolt?
do u guys know the rating on V trail?
Last edited by Fish1200; 04-28-2009 at 06:49 AM.
04-28-2009, 09:55 AM
V trail is a 6.
Here are some vids from my buddies:
Josh taking Bob up KGB (High Quality) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSf4wRlOiAI
Josh taking Bob up KGB (High Definition) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OwoTKo1EY
Jake taking the Amish Jeep up KGB (High Quality) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZHECXsX9aE
Jake taking the Amish Jeep up KGB (High Definition) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p4cXHO2Icw
Originally Posted by SB406
04-28-2009, 10:20 AM
I believe V-trail is actually a 7...not that it matters much.
The guys in the videos you posted part of WNY?
04-28-2009, 10:33 AM
Yah.
I was going by the big dogs website where it has V trail as a 6.
Originally Posted by SB406
04-28-2009, 10:37 AM
Cool...than I stand corrected.
Who else has pics damn it? Yes, I'm just as guilty...I'll try to get some up later tonight.
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