Rooinater

keep that cable from lashing back, breaking my window and killing me... there will be some left of my rig when i get back and sell it, it's only body damage. i'll be selling it with another wagon body, 2 engines, spare 5 speed d/r and tcase. the wheeling down here has traction, up there it doesn't. so i'll have to get used to slick surface and squeezing between trees again!

not yet, i copied and pasted the recon run report that i posted on the yuma 4 wheelers forum. it was within the first 1/4 mile of the trail, out of close to 15 miles. as soon as i get the tcase skid plate, i'll attempt it. there's a tcase hanger dead center of that climb. nice rock pointing out.

the irony, winched out by a yota again... i really think there is a message going on here... but he wouldn't get near the cracks with his yota. sunday i did get to tow a yota out though...

well, an all day recon run, to find locate and map out clip wash with gps coordinates for the yuma 4 wheelers. needless to say... didn't break anything on saturday. but got plenty of body damage. was stratling a couple hundred foot long crack, back tire slipped and oops... took it easy backed out as far as i could, got hung on a rock on the rear passenger door. so i played it safe, got winched forward. no stub breakage all day! and we were wheeling pretty hard all day.

looks like, you guys had fun!

there's different flange sizes on different tcases, but they are essentially all the same. just make sure you get the drivelines, so that you can have custom ones made mixing the subaru to nissan. your going to have to do that anyway.

every time i'm at glamis, if i'm in a vehicle with mud terrains i go to at least 10 psi or lower, m/t tires dig like it's cool in the sand. if all terrains 12 to 15 psi, they don't dig as much. when your tires are that low, you float instead of dig. which is the whole purpose of airing them down that low, you want a big bulge. larger and heaver trucks out here in glamis, some have to go as far as 5 psi... that way the can stay afloat. if your still digging, especially while in 4lo air down further. and just learn the feel of driving in it. last time i was at oldsmobile hill. i was yanking full size trucks out left and right with my '82 datsun pickup, because i was at 10 psi, and they all were between 15 to 30 psi, i was floating on the sand, they were digging...... 4lo, zero problems.

well figured i'd transpose them over here also. so here's the pics. notice any new body damage? rocks crumbled underneath and it slid 2 inches into the rock. wild donkeys

dibs go to cash... when the vehicle goes for sale.

have to wait till your at work to relax on the internet...

$2500 end of july early august, and you can buy it. no i don't need a winch... i need my yota... and then a winch

yeah, i got sun burnt. it was mid to upper 70's in the canyons we were running. fairly cool for arizona but it's definately warming up and "winter," if you can call it that, is almost gone. the pwr steering line was kind of hokey rigged in the first place. i slept in today. so i'll see if i can make it tomorrow to the place to see if i can get a hyd line custom made. instead of a rigged extenstion. the stub axle survived the majority of the day, till the larger rock climbs in the end. there's a video of me crawling on the last little climb that squeezes between the two rocks. i'll have to try to get that later this week. got a new dent on the drivers side rear. some rocks crumbled out from under my tire and it slide gently into the rock.

*****EDIT***** PICTURES IMPORTED IN POST BELOW. well went on another run today with the yuma 4 wheelers. had a blast. the extension on my power steering line, popped off 3 times and i wound up without my power steering for half the day... forgot how much easier it is with pwr steering... but climbed a few rock climbs and putted around scoping out washes and trails. did break another stub shaft on a rock climb. seems to be typical now-a-days. once a run... it should be the first slide show on this page that has all the pics from the run. i had no co-pilot or camera person in my car. let alone i didn't bring my camera. there's a few playing on some small rocks and small faces. but here's some pics. http://yuma4wheelers.spaces.live.com/

the only problem with moving the axle forward, is that the strut arms are already sleeved and reinforced. so i'd have to get a new set, lengthen and re sleeve... i was thinking just, cut out the back of the fender and and weld some plate to reshape the fender back further.

going again tomorrow. those pics don't even do justice to how twisted up it was. i'll be tubbing the fenders to avoid the front problem. and a new pwr steering line...

push pull steering? where's the pics of you rob?

AWESOME! :headbang: the pic of you and ken with rainier in the background is monumental! and it's great to see you both back on the trail! after today it made me want to sell lil' roo and cut ends. and finish off the truck with the money from the car... probably will when i get back! the irony of the only 2 yotas towing me out... wake up call... move to washington and get the yota together! what trails did you guys wind up running, other than 311?

so similtaneous pops, front and rear... one rear stub and a front birf on the cv... all in a days wheeling, more like first 30 minutes... and the irony and symbology of the only 2 toyotas on the run had to pull me back and forth... :-p the front broke when the wheel was full lock, shuved into the fender and didn't want to go. think i'll tub out the fenders in the front... and the rear was bound and broke... solid axle, or sell the car... and get the yota going... shattered birf... rockin' the flappy's print shop shirt. my favorite hoodie! a short video, no sound sorry.

lol! they got, beat your $h!t trail at reiter trails... most the trails here are something mine. tons of abandoned mines and rocky trails leading out there. tomorrow and sunday, more wheeling! nothing too hard, i'm going out with the yuma 4 wheelers. not sure what to expect from their trips yet.

i'll have to go with what rob has when i move back or risk the ticket. cause mine stick out over 4 inches... :-\

well got a few new pics from my buddies camera phone from this trip. the video's are cell phone vids, so i won't bother posting them, fuzzy and tiny. pics are of the main laguna mountains ridge trail, which accesses a lot of the rock washes in the area i was playing in. fairly fun and easy ridge trail.

let me know. cause the only one i've got ahold of for making chromo's can't make them for a couple of months. moving shop location or something. so i'll have to get back to him in a couple months, if i can't find someone else.

maybe someone did... sorry eric. constructive criticism.

then use the main jeep trail. they might of finally incorperated the bypass or gave up. but it's been there for at least 6 or 7 years... and i know one of the first people to cut that path. he got chewed out after going around that. they've blocked it a few times. and it kept getting unblocked. the bypass wasn't there 8 to 10 years ago. maybe they gave up on it... at least one of the subies made it, why couldn't you? air down and hang on.