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Kim S (Roverine)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:57 am: | 
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C'mon Brian, come clean with it ... LOL, inquiring minds (?) want to know .... 
Kim
How did the wife react? hehehe |
EricV (Bender2033)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:23 pm: |
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Aww Kim, you know that chicks dig body damage.
On a more serious note ... HOLY @#&&^!! That disco took a beating. Got any more pics? How about a trail report? |
Brian Friend (Brianfriend)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:53 pm: |
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I wrote up a trail report in the trails section under Independance ate my truck and another sorta related topic called never,never save your receipts.
I've got a ton of trail pics, different tails. I wheel a lot and have been a bit lazy about posting pics.
Wife was not real happy about the whole ordeal. The pass ft door still does not open. I am going to have to take the fendor off and pound it back out. I had to replace the front tie rod and track rod. I will have to replace both cv joints...they are not in the vehicle right now. I've got a new mjore aggresive leak in the rear main seal. I need to replace the pass side trans mount. Tore up the tires real bad...they will probably need to be replaced. Head lite shines directly at the ground. I have no more turn signals...probably from a pinched wire. My first task is to get the thing to drive straight again. once I accomplish this I will replace the cv joints. I think I will also have to replace the swivel bearing...shrapnell from the cv got in their and now my pass wheel sits at diagonal.
You might be able to see in some of the dark pictures that I was leaning rather heavily to the pass side. The truck was sitting on a big rock and dented rather badly the rear pas door.
I have started working on the winch. I got a cable for it but I have to find a way to secure the motor. When I broke the motor off it stripped the bolts.
Obviously the front bumper needs to be replaced and the brush bar is out of commision. the rear bumper is not to good either.
I got under the truck last a couple of nights ago and my frame is rather dented.
I do need to point out thogh that my new RockWare trailing arms held up just fine.
I am sure there are a few other things that I will need to fix I am going in the same order that a medic would.
start the breathing-----Wife
stop the bleeding------pocket book
treat for shock--------appearance
I have to admit, at the end of the day I qestioned wheather or not I was going to continue this sport. But as the days pass I am getting more and more antsy to get back on the trail. |
Brian Friend (Brianfriend)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 02:00 pm: |
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This is from the trail section post I did the day after the trail.--------------------------
Decided to do indepenadance trail yesterday. That is a evil, evil, sadistic trail. I will try to post some pics when i get a chance.
I understand why it is the hardest trail in Co.
We saw 3 other rigs on the trail system...all were trailered in and they were real rock crawlers.
Went with a Cherokee...6 in lift, 33" locked ft and rear. Me in a d1 2 in" lift, 265/75 locked ft and rear.
The trail destroyed us. It was just over 1 mile long and we started at 11:30 thinking that we would have plenty of time. The first mile was very fast...we hit the bottom by 4;30 and I was thinkng that I would be home by 6:00 with 1/2hr drive time.
Thats when things went bad. There was a large obsticle that I weged my tries between and turned my panhard rod into a nice v. No problem...I had a spare and 10 min later I pulled up behind the jeep. Time to move on and finish the ride. As we started the jeep's track rod broke. It didn't bend, it snapped at the link. He didn't bring a spare so we had to do a bit of trail side repair and got it rigged up enough to work.
Onward we go. we had about 300 ft of up hill treacherous obsticles but I was feeling good about things. We got the jeep up about 20 feet and strung the cable and began winching up the first verticle. The problem was the rock face was higher than his hood...real tough to get a tire on that so we had to get him off camber. Meanwhile, his track rod broke again and severed his front left brake line. Fifteen min. to fix that and move on. Got 6 feet forward and the off camber put him into the side of the rocks. I had to come from behind and with a snach block pull his ass end out and he started moving again, then he started rolling the other direction and almost went over but I was able to real in the winch and keep him from rolling completely on his side.
After we got him up to a flat spot it was my turn. Snaped my winch cable and lost every thing but 1 1/2 wrap. We clamped the hook to the remaining cable and tried it again and broke it again.
Fast forward....got up to the wall and while attempting to clime it I broke the winch motor off.....winch out of commission, but finally made it to the flat spot in total darkness. It was about 8:30 by this point. The rest of the trail should be easy.
And it was for about 25 feet and then we were back in the crap again. Jeep lost his ft locker and broke the track rod 3 more times but we eventually got him out of the trail. I was a different story. I got hung up on a rock and broke my track rod. I have 3 sitting at home and not one of them managed to come with me on this trip. I had forgot to put them back in the truck the night before.. Rigged the rod and tried to power over the obsticle...I was really wishing I had the winch. Pop....front right axle. Jeep comes back and tries to pull me...finaaly got me disloged but the the track rod broke again and I had no steering, I smashed the front right fender into a rock. Can't open the pass door and mushed my hood up, but I was over. Had to stop and pull my bumper away from my tire...it was making a horrible noise as I moved forward. With the bumper safely out of the way I strated again. Uh, oh....same noise, it wasn't my bumper making noise it was my left front axle. Now I am rear wheel dirve, no wich and my buddies winch is 8k, and was not very happy at this point, and we sill have 50' to go and it is 11:00pm and starting to get cold. High lift time. Lift the rear, rocks under the tires and drive off the lift. It worked, I am now 3 more feet closer. Had to use the lift 4 more times. Being scared to death of the high lift I am very carefull and always position myself as far out of the way as possible. Well, the lift slipped and whacked my hand, I thought it broke my hand, but it just hurt like hell.
Now i am starting to worry that I may not be able to get the truck out. We were so tired and frustrated that I thought about leaving it an coming back today but we forged on.
There was a big rock that I had to go around and required me to go off camber again. So off camber I go....and fell into the rock, wich was a good thing bacuse I was not completely on my side. I had to lok out the sunroof to see to my right side. This was a rather frustrating situation, I could see the trail head but i couldn't get to it. 12:00 am now. I'm thinking, "my wife is gonna be pissed"
The jeep is at the trail head at a 90 degree angle from me but there were good trees. I radio him that I am in a rather precarious position so we ran a snach and hooked to the roof rack to pull my driver's side back down while I finish the turn. It worked and I got around the rock. 20' feet to go up a section that would have been extreemly difficult with a functional rig but with lots of rock stacking and winching we finally made it to the top. VICTORIOUS!
I beat Independance.
Of course my rig is not driveable or trail ready right now and probably won't be for a little while to come. |
chu
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 03:03 pm: |
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maybe when i can gather up enough courage,
i'll go walk the trail. |
henryfox
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 03:58 pm: |
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Nasty nasty trail and a good write up Brain. That's one trail to scratch off my "to-do" list. But lets be honest here, you didn't "beat" Independence, you "completed" Independence once it got tired of sucking truck parts off you guys as sacrifices. Coming out with that much damage qualifies the trail as the one who did the beating, and that trail kicked your ass as it has to many people before you.. |
Kim S (Roverine)
| | Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 04:37 pm: |
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LOL, I'm with you Chu ... although after my last "spotting" fandango a few weeks ago, some of my friends would say it would be ill advised for me to even walk the trail  (my face still hurts)
Brian, sorry I missed your first thread. Couldn't help but chuckle at your first post in this thread (and I feel guilty, I'm sorry) ... Like I said, ... darlin' just build yourself a trailer queen or something close enough. Said it before, nothing wrong with that!
Kim
oh, and I know this may be considered dorky, but wear a helmut too (sorry it's the mother in me } |
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