GSR '10 Role Call

[AgitatedPancake]

As of right now my idea for myself is to come in from the tahoe side friday afternoon, and just wheel in until i find you guys! No idea how far in you'll be...maybe we'll be able to meet at buck or somethin

[wheelnzj]

We are meeting at the Loon Lake overspill at 0700 Friday morning.
See everyone there!

[fredr1980]

So I made myself another spare driveshaft yesterday out of all those parts, and tore the front drivers side hub apart. The inner wheel bearing is rusted onto the spindle, the upper ball joint is shot and the tack welds on my u-joint caps are cracked again.

Sooooooo....



I persuaded my friend to let me...hold onto his cherokee (the army green/black one) for a week so I can steal his drivers side knuckle and axleshaft for the trip hehehe

Agitated,
Are you swapping out your Ball joints anytime soon on you D44 or are you just going to wait it out until you build your 609? I was looking on pirate at these XRF BALL JOINTS as it seems like the ones from ballistic MIGHT be available sometime next year and I'm not going to wait around for those and these XRF joints seem like they are an upgrade to standard spicer stuff ... I just built my front axle back in Jan/Feb and there is already slop in these 9-month old ball joints I might try these out as they're relatively inexpensive...

Fred R.

[AgitatedPancake]

I'm going to hold off until the 609 goes in. I got a few years out of these napa balljoints, and the sloppy one was on the side that broke the u-joint, and wheel studs. I'm wondering if some things were playing together into a chain reaction there.

GOOD TO GO! *Cough*

[goldensd]

Agitated,
Are you swapping out your Ball joints anytime soon on you D44 or are you just going to wait it out until you build your 609? I was looking on pirate at these XRF BALL JOINTS as it seems like the ones from ballistic MIGHT be available sometime next year and I'm not going to wait around for those and these XRF joints seem like they are an upgrade to standard spicer stuff ... I just built my front axle back in Jan/Feb and there is already slop in these 9-month old ball joints I might try these out as they're relatively inexpensive...

Fred R.

Fred,

I had the same issue, and had to replace 1 pretty quick. The 1 thing, I've learned on stuff like that though is to use the best one's from Autozone, to get the lifetime warranty. Obviously, there is still the PIA factor when one goes out, but they've never questioned me for turning in a part for a warranty replacement. I'd definitely be interested in a better/stronger part if they were out there at a decent price though.

I think this goes right along with my Optima battery. Seems like mine goes bad every 2 years, and I take it in with my receipt and they hand me a new one. It's probably the memory deal I've read about, but one of the guys once told me that the Red Top Optima's don't play nice with high amp alternators, so who knows. I guess I'll worry about that when they stop replacing them...


See everyone bright and early.

[AgitatedPancake]

Lol poor Cherokee...



Sacrificing itself for MY jeep muahaha


It's back on all 4's and drives pretty nice but I heard a wierd brake screech coming from the rear end. I went and checked it out...missing one of the 18mm caliper bolts on my rear pass rotor. AGH gotta pick one up tomorrow.

[AgitatedPancake]

In truckee now, omw

[AgitatedPancake]

Ahhh! While I wasn't able to run the entire trail with you guys, I must say THANK YOU! It was an awesome time with great company, and our timing coming from both directions was awesome. Great times hangin around the campfire just chattin and talkin about the grands!

The only pic I have to contribute, and a good one to start! Can't wait to see the pics and vids from comin up cadillac hill today!

A pic of camp this morning around 7:20 before everyone got up, GOOD MORNING!

[Shinobi]

It was defintly nice meeting you all ... me and the GF had a blast !!!! Can't wait to work on the new list of upgrades for next year

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