Slaughterhouse Gulch Colorado

derrickalda

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WOW what a beginning to a day...

Before I say anything else I want to praise God for keeping Me, my friend, and my dog alive!!!

On the way to the trail head a tie rod end sheared and I lost control and almost flipped. i went off the road onto a bank. I was so far off camber I don't know why I didn't tip. When you open the door and it hits the ground then that means you're pretty tipsy. I couldn't leave the cab so I got 7 guys to keep the truck from tipping while holding a strap attached to the rack. I winched off the bank onto flat ground, and then took a hilift apart to make a steering arm trail fix

The part that broke was a brand new HEAVY DUTY tie rod end I installed TO SPEC 6 days before. It sheared....it wasn;t install incorrectly. grr...Im glad I was on a dirt road instead of the HWY.

I don't have any pictures of the truck on the bank. I was a little busy with other things.

had to jack up the rear to reset the springs because the spring cone wasn't worh a dime......sent them back and am designing new ones to build.

Well if you know me then you know a near death experience is not going to keep me from wheeling. We fixed the truck and did the trail.

Trail Report....

Slaugterhouse Gulch rated 5 out of 10

This was a very easy trail. I ran it open/open/open. The trail had many off camber spots, and axle twisting ruts. Up top there was still snow, but it wasn't challenging, because it was well traveled on and you could see the trail clearly. All in all you could drive it with a stock vehicle if youre careful, because everything difficult had a bypass, but I was able to do them all completely open.

Damage report...

1. broken tie rod end
2. relocation cones that don't work (took them off on the trail. I be calling the company on Monday for my money back)
3. broken shovel that was on my rack
4. rack was moved back a inch, and need to fix it and the rain gutters
5. pan hard bar needs new bushings and bolts now

I had lots of FUN
 

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I HATE PONIES

I HATE PONIES

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I love the highlift jack. I still find a use for it every time I need a fix, pull, lift, push, ect. ect...... It may be the perfect do all tool.
 
Blue

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cones suck

either you won't ever use them, or you will wheel sufficiently to use them and then they won't work for shit (like in your pictures). an unretained wheel just sitting freely on the ground isn't doing shit for you with the truck high up & off the axle.
 
derrickalda

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i have 12" shocks pressurized to 100psi. this means along with gravity, I have 100lbs of force keeping traction to my tires. If I was retained and was crossing my axles doing he same thing then I would loose forward progress due to lifting a tire and having it spin freely.....in a unlocked vehicle. So cones do serve a purpose.

I got the steering from Steve Young, because he imports them. These are used alot overseas in comps. He's sending my 4 new ones with a return tag for the broken one I have so they can do test on it to see what exactly happened. First time doing business with them. I don' blame the company.
 
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gmookher

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derrickalda said:
i have 12" shocks pressurized to 100psi. this means along with gravity, I have 100lbs of force keeping traction to my tires. If I was retained and was crossing my axles doing he same thing then I would loose forward progress due to lifting a tire and having it spin freely.....in a unlocked vehicle. So cones do serve a purpose.

I got the steering from Steve Young, because he imports them. These are used alot overseas in comps. He's sending my 4 new ones with a return tag for the broken one I have so they can do test on it to see what exactly happened. First time doing business with them. I don' blame the company.
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hmm. are ya locked?ARB? DT?

It was after I moved to Colorado I realized I wanted dual ARBs (or much bigger tires, 35s on a d2 will take more tiem & $$$$)and haven't since felt the need for cones, so long as I can run a longer shock, my limiting factor now is the twatts,I think I like that style of wheeling, awesome pics, really made me miss the terrain. Lockers allow me to lift a tire and still maintain forward progress, with precision unlike a TT where one must gas/brake/hope it catches.

As for broken steering parts from Steve Young, shit, I am not surprised. They dont need to 'test it' did he sell you that line of BS too? whats there to test? its crap, thats why he sells it. Mind you I really like what EE sells. Not the same DAP crap. But all that SY sells is holy and 'used for competition in UK, cause he KNOWS! gimme a break, I'm worn from his navy seal mission speak and testing 'methodology' for a broken TRE ...Speed racer incarnate...
 
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justinhaaga

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derrickalda said:
I got the steering from Steve Young, because he imports them. These are used alot overseas in comps. He's sending my 4 new ones with a return tag for the broken one I have so they can do test on it to see what exactly happened. First time doing business with them. I don' blame the company.
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quality at work dap for the win!

thank god your ok.
 
Blue

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derrickalda said:
i have 12" shocks pressurized to 100psi. this means along with gravity, I have 100lbs of force keeping traction to my tires. If I was retained and was crossing my axles doing he same thing then I would loose forward progress due to lifting a tire and having it spin freely.....in a unlocked vehicle. So cones do serve a purpose.

I got the steering from Steve Young, because he imports them. These are used alot overseas in comps. He's sending my 4 new ones with a return tag for the broken one I have so they can do test on it to see what exactly happened. First time doing business with them. I don' blame the company.
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I hear what you're sayin but I'd go rear locker over cones any day of the week.
 
gmookher

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DAP-They have GC, HPLC, and the lastest mass spectroscopy -dont you know that?

but duh!

are you not aware he's got top level DOD clearance and as such can use their nano-bots to investigate and test this breakage further?

Navy Seals and Special ops guys like SY can do this,telekenesis is the key, they can also use jedi mind trick powers to send you more crap and convince you to trust your life to the SAME part that broke a 2nd time.

I'd take my refund and run.

Far.

away.

And I'd count my stars, a busted TRE isnt funny if youre in motion in transit vs crawling up a rock.
I am glad youre okay, and I'd not trust the same part, i'd feel jinxed
 
derrickalda

derrickalda

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nope I'm not locked right now. I have toyota 3rds I'm going to put in my truck later this summer.

As of the Steering shafts. I got those because they have greasable ball joint. I couldn't find greasable ball joints at the time.

obviously tie rod ends would be a out sourced product, so the blame lays beyond DAP
 
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