The Dude Abides

Yea thanks mick, now because of you and your (mud) tires i get to look forward to this thing trying to kill me all the time. Ben

Some really nice guy pulled it for him in a muddy, slippy, raining junkyard. Since he lives in the middle of BFE now. LIke you do.

2x4 you hillbilly:lol: so when am i picking this up.

I had thought about going in but im doing ok. I was always warned not to get hit in the temple because it could end you. Ive never been knocked out before so it sure was something. Yea im doin ok except for the right side of my head hirting.

Knocked myself out preparing to install my lift.

Well theres going to be a pack of us going, lots of non subes so i expect if i do get stuck i can get pulled out with ease. As far as spare parts, i guess ill just wing it. Its actually not to far from my house. Ill have a cb installed buy then so all should be good as far as communication. I will bring tools and whatever else i can manage. And brent, if i cant try the ooey goey stuff then whats the point brother. I want the carnage, i want to get stuck. Im going to show these namby pambys what a underpowered 4wd wagon can actually do. And when ive given her all shes got captin. You can pull me out

So im preparing my car for the lift buy removing the rear shocks. The 1st side went ok but man they were on ther tight. Put some lube and backed them on and off frequently so i didnt bust everything. So im on the 1st bolt on the passenger side when my 2 10 inch extensions and my torque wrench (dont ask) slip off the bolt sending the torque wrench smashing full force against my temple, then the lights went out. I came too sprawled halfway under guido hunched over the tire with aching teeth and head. I dont know how long was i out but no one noticed. It was not a productive day.

You are right sir, my apologies.

Yea i got alot of info on the page they directed me to. Alot of it i knew but some i didnt so it was most helpful.

C darnit i knew there was something i just couldnt find it. Thanks.

Ok so ive done a search and couldnt find anything. In a few weeks (bearing the car is ready) i will be going on my first real offroading experience. Now i dont know what we will come in contace, lots of mud for sure. But my questions are what types of preparations do i need to do to the car. I understand tires and lift but im talking about things like air pressure in the tires. OR weight distribution for the gear i have stored. How about what to avoid with certain lines to take. I know alot of things are learned out there but any tips of what you guys do would be helpfull. I have no doubt i will get stuck and probally break something but thats the nature of the beast. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Ben

Nice, you keep rollin them out dont ya.

There are people all over the country in this forum. Dont know about new mexico but theres a few people in arizona, nevada.

Dude this shouldnt be that hard. You just want the glass assembly right. I went and picked up a couple of sylvan silverstars for my dl a few years ago. Run ya 30 apiece. Any auto parts store should have these.

From looking at pictures theyve taken when they checked out the route it is going to be narley. Not a good one neither, dont think ive ever seen a dodge ram sink like that. All the snow and rain has made it way soft and sloppy around here. 2 things are going to happen for sure. 1. You will get stuck and 2 you will get muddy.

I would half to check out my timeing belts covers to even see how to do this but i have a pretty good view of my timeing belts via a huge hole on teh bottom of the covers.

Is it possible to cut the bottom out of the timeing covers and just zip tie the front ones on so you have some coverage.

Ok well ill just come over and borrow the brat then.

Heres a mapqwest from my house to the event. If you locals want we can meet here and caravan. Its only 4 miles from where i am. Mick looks like its going to be on april 10 no matter what. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1pn=Waveland+Cafe&1c=Booneville&1s=IA&1a=35653+Ute+Ave&1z=50038&1y=US&1l=41.523705&1g=-93.885675&1v=ADDRESS&1id=22818349&2pn=Sun+Prairie+Apartments&2c=West+Des+Moines&2s=IA&2a=5901+Vista+Dr&2z=50266&2y=US&2l=41.58962&2g=-93.78938&2v=ADDRESS&2id=6706731#b/maps/l:Waveland+Cafe:35653+Ute+Ave:Booneville:IA:50038:US:41.523705:-93.885675:address::1:::22818349/l:Sun+Prairie+Apartments:5901+Vista+Dr:West+Des+Moines:IA:50266:US:41.58962:-93.78938:address::1:::6706731/io:1:::::f:en_US:M:/e

What the hell man.

Just buy looking at what hes doing, seems like alot more work to make a decent wheeling justy.

GD is just trying to help out guys. If you dont like what hes saying then take it in stride.

I can understand why you remove them but i cant see how road grime and gunk would not get into the componenets and possibly sorten the life of them.

Wonder how long the car ride is. 1660miles and 24hours of driveing. Ick.

I dont know where this convro is going but i just like the wagon because it can haul all my crap and if i camp i can sleep in the car and not on the cold wet ground while listening to people chatin on the cb.