GWNF Run: Early-Mid December 2011

[Wills05xlt4x4]

Yall make it home ok were back about to upload pics

 

[Xeek]

i saw your map on fb. looks like you guys made a wrong turn towards the end lol

 

[Wills05xlt4x4]

i saw your map on fb. looks like you guys made a wrong turn towards the end lol

IT doesn't show the pit stop to work on Dominican x...
Hit all water did grreat

 

[Xeek]

it was just you, dominican, james and fishfood right?

its way to early to plan yet, but i think a halloween run, or september again or early october would be good for next year.




hurry up with the pics

 

[Ronin8002]

i saw your map on fb. looks like you guys made a wrong turn towards the end lol

lol. I'll take the hit on that...I was leading and zigged where I should have zagged.

Gimme a break...we just spent like an hour and a half hacksawing a bolt to the right length so I made a little mistake

So it wasn't a double header...had to do some on-trail surgery that took priority over Shoe Creek, but I'll let DominicanX tell that story hehe.

 

[Ronin8002]

it was just you, dominican, james and fishfood right?

Spike was a no-show but he has big home improvement projects going on so no big deal.

 

[Xeek]

thats prob why it say you were on the trail ~6hrs lol


im guessing he got his transfer case in since he wen., dont tell me thats what broke lol

 

[Ronin8002]

thats prob why it say you were on the trail ~6hrs lol


im guessing he got his transfer case in since he wen., dont tell me thats what broke lol

Nope, same transfer case. Basically his brake caliper bolts on one side got loosened a lot and one of them fell out. This caused some kind of problem with his ABS, which caused his Tcase to get stuck in 4 lo.

We didn't know all that till after we pulled the front driveshaft and both front CV's. Even after fixing all that he couldn't get back into 2wd until he unhooked his battery and cleared codes (good thinking, Will!)

Standby for pics and vids

 

[Ronin8002]

 

[Ronin8002]

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ArP5nnaDk&feature=player_profilepage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D8apw2Ix8M&feature=player_profilepage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzkvV3I-gM&feature=player_profilepage

 

[Xeek]

i really wish i was there for this one. the place mustve been beautiful without all the fog

 

[Ronin8002]

Shoe Creek is open through the winter if I am not mistaken. Maybe we can do an early 2012 run there.

 

[Xeek]

i dont think i can afford anything until march atleast. is there still snow then up there?

i still have $500 in parts to buy out of $650. at a slow rate...

 

[DominicanX]

Yeah this was quite the trip! Guess it was my turn to have something fall apart. I first want to thank you all for helping get my truck rolling. After taking out a driveshaft and converting to 2WD, only to find out a bolt had fallen out of my Brake Caliper somewhere one the trail. Guess I got lucky that I had a bolt in my tool box with the same thread pattern. And a great thanks to Will and James for helping me cut down a grade 8 bolt with a hack saw (2hrs!)

Dremel......... An item to bring on the next trip.

And whats up with getting stuck in 4LO!

Luckily a reset of the trucks computer fixed that issue and I was able to roll home at normal highway speeds.

I need to get rid of this 4405 TCase! Nothing but bad luck. Time for the 1354e to go in...with a manual shifter of course.

 

[jd4242]

hey are these the rocks i went over last time?did you all hit both trails?

 

[Wills05xlt4x4]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56555228@N05/

DSCN1304 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1303 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1287 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1286 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1285 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1284 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1281 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1280 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1279 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1277 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1275 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1272 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1271 by billyssingle, on Flickr

DSCN1262 by billyssingle, on Flickr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkYA27P4C_s

great trip off to get some grinding wheels to bore out this spare tb im going for 70-72mm (stock is 65mm) oe blade appears to be reusable itll be much smoother than before with no ridges and larger diameter

 

[Ronin8002]

hey are these the rocks i went over last time?did you all hit both trails?

yep, same rocks

we got too busy fixing DominicanX's truck at the end of Stony Run and ran out of time. gotta hit shoe creek sometime!

 

[Wills05xlt4x4]

yep, same rocks

we got too busy fixing DominicanX's truck at the end of Stony Run and ran out of time. gotta hit shoe creek sometime!

should have unhooked battery then and i bet itd have worked...

 

[DominicanX]

should have unhooked battery then and i bet itd have worked...

Yep that would have fixed the 4Lo issue! But we still had to cut down that bolt to attach the brake caliper!

But I take the blame...If it wasn't for my mishap :roll:, we could have done both trails. Next time we do the trail we haven't done first!

 

[DominicanX]

And great pics! Thanks for all the good shots posted by James and "billyssingle"